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[quote=Anonymous][quote=gkahpaul]Even the most seasoned and experienced baseball players will tell you that you never truly get comfortable with an object being thrown at you at over 80-100+ mph...not even taking in to account being good at it (base hit minimum, let alone hitting a HR) - You just learn to mentally lock with each pitch so the mental aspect is huge. [b]This point alone is why most will tell you starting kids at 9 or 10 is too late [/b]and puts them at a significant disadvantage, due to the amount of time required to establish a decent comfort level with live pitching because things can and will go wrong at times.[/quote] There are many sports that are like this - gymnastics, figure skating, ice hockey. One can argue that focusing for 2 min for 4 at bats in a game is not more stressful than having to focus on every ball movement in a 2 hour tennis match, or making every stride in a 100 m dash perfect, or facing a single opponent on a wrestling match, or pushing your endurance to the limit in a 1500 meter race, or performing a 2 min figure skating routine in front of subjective judges, or exerting yourself to the point of nausea in a triathlon. It’s all pretty stressful. And to the poster who said that even though baseball players are not involved in any plays far more than 50% of the time, they are WATCHING, which is incredibly mentally taxing, then I guess sports parents are the most mentally tough of them all. A swimmer would find it mentally challenging to be at bat. A baseball player would find it mentally challenging to push past pain and lack of oxygen and race a 400 IM. A distance runner would find it mentally challenging to be a goalie during penalty kicks. [/quote]
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