Hitting a hard-thrown baseball is one of the most difficult skills in sports. The Hitting Edge simplifies the task by focusing on key features common in every successful hitter's swing: dynamic balance, sequential rotation, axis of rotation, and bat lag.
Author Tom Robson identified these hitting “absolutes” through extensive video analysis and research and his on-field role as a major league hitting coach. He confirmed the importance of the four factors by studying the best hitters of the modern era, such as Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire, and working with top batsmen like Rafael Palmeiro and John Olerud. And a hitter doesn't need to be an all-star to benefit from Robson's instruction, because it applies across all levels of competition and allows for all types of individual swing styles.
Robson also recognizes that batters aren't robots, and human factors sometimes interfere with hitting mechanics. So he also teaches how to develop better focus and a more positive attitude at the plate. 
But it takes more than the right stroke to develop consistent contact and power. Focus. Split-second timing. An eye for the perfect pitch. Great hitting requires all these elements and more. Much of The Hitting Edge is dedicated to the physical and mental details of preparing for the pitch, followed by six information-packed chapters on the mechanics of the swing.
Loaded with concise instruction, skill demonstration, photos, effective drills, and more, Robson's book cleans up where other hitting books strike out. Take the knowledge available in this book with you to every at-bat and you'll have The Hitting Edge.

The Hitting Edge

Sports & Outdoors

Robson, Tom

Baseball

Human Kinetics

MUSICAL WISDOM is top quality, meaningful, & up-to-the-minute! It touches the very core of young experiences & emotions, from the new kid at school to communication with parents. With music, poetry, & drawings, this book speaks to the heart. Ideas that are sometimes difficult to express, are translated simply & clearly in ways that both children & adults will enjoy. The 26 original songs include lyrics, music, & chord charts for the guitar. The corresponding picture-stories will remind adults of their own childhood. Children will see that the things they are facing now, are similar to what the adults in their lives have experienced. Tom Robson, while working as a custodian in a small elementary school, began sharing songs that he had written for children. As a result of those visits he now spends his time with young people, their parents, & their teachers sharing his songs & stories about families, & schoolday experiences. MUSICAL WISDOM was written while Tom, & his wife Darla, were raising their daughters, so the songs provide a delightful & often intimate view of the struggles we all face during the process that Tom calls, "growing up with our children."

Musical Wisdom Songs and Drawings for The

Dummy Book Co

Bordered by the Atlantic Ocean, the Maritime Provinces boast sandy beaches, rocky shores, quaint seaside villages, and sleepy small towns. However, there's more to these isolated villages and seemingly quiet communities than you might think. The Evergreen Writers have crafted this collection of ghost stories from the not-so-scary to the shivery-spooky. Though several stories are based on real events in real places, others are purely fictional. These stories will open your eyes and cause you to look over your shoulder. Our ghosts, spectres, and wraiths are a benevolent lot--at least most of them! But you may want to leave the light on...

Out of the Mist: 22 Atlantic Canadian Ghost Stories

Literature & Fiction

MacKenzie, Catherine

Barton, Russell

Yeats, Phil

McGinity, Janet

Leaman, Frank

White, Art

Boudreau, Manon

Follini, Maida

Losier, Diane

Short Stories & Anthologies

Stone Cellar Publications

Writing in a time of heightened political anxiety-and when accusations of nationalism, authoritarianism, and proto-fascism have increasingly divided Americans into factions- the authors use their influential performance studies-based 'tourist as actor' framework to unpack the ways that Disney parks and their guests co-create performance of implicit Americanness in the 21st century. This book argues that the roles that guests choose to perform-- accepting, declining, negotiating, or overwriting scripts offered to them by the Disney theme park experience-- ultimately reveals much about the nature of the contemporary United States. Focusing primarily on Walt Disney World in Florida, and using case studies on music, geography and ecology, sports, families, and politics, these chapters illuminate the always complicated and often contradictory presentations and performances of America within Disney parks in the deeply contested twenty-first century.

Disney Parks and the Construction of American Identity: Tourism, Performance, Anxiety (Studies in Disney and Culture)

Business & Money

Kokai University of South Florida, Jennifer A.

Industries

Lexington Books

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