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This is Scientific Americans' 60-second science. I'm Larry Greenmeyer. Got a minute?

Hall of Famer Ted Williams once famously commented that hitting a baseball is the hardest thing to do in sports.

Although Williams, the 344 career hitter, made it look easy.

He had a point. Hitting a round ball with a round bat squarely is difficult.

It's also an excellent example of some very entertaining applied physics.

No surprise then that professional baseball players are turning to science to improve their

multi-million dollar strokes. Some approaches focus on the neuroscience of hitting, the deep

internal brain mechanisms behind seeing the pitch and reacting to it. But for more info

about the swing itself, a sports tech company called Zep Labs makes a sensor that can help

break down those mechanics. The sensor sits in the knob of the company's so-called smart bat

and uses two accelerometers and a three-axis gyroscope to measure bat speed, hand speed, attack

angle, and other factors.

The sensor, which weighs only about 8 grams, sends this info to a smartphone app via Bluetooth.

The app can then use this data to have an on-screen avatar reenact the swing, and the

hope that the batter can pick up some details and make the necessary adjustments.

Zep sensors can also be fitted to golf clubs and tennis rackets.

Never one to mince words, Ted Williams also once said that pitchers were, quote-unquote,

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