Objective: To determine the effects of watching a professional baseball game on the affect and subjective happiness of elders without a specific team to support. Method: Elderly Japanese (n = 16) were instructed to watch baseball games at a ballpark. They answered a questionnaire several weeks before (baseline) and, on the day of the game, before and after watching the game. Participants' affec...

Baseball is one of the most important sports in Taiwan, but Taiwanese professional baseball has faced major challenges. Consequently, many skilled baseball players from Taiwan choose to pursue careers in the United States and Japan. Baseball has been the most popular sport in Taiwan since 1968, but professional baseball was not organized until 1990. In reality, the operation of professional bas...

Baseball demands speed, power, and quickness. To perform at a high level, and avoid injuries that are common among baseball players, an evaluation of current trends in strength and conditioning practices is helpful. Based on the demands of the sport and the injury risks, qualified strength and conditioning professionals can develop effective baseball-specific conditioning programs. This comment...

[Purpose] The aim of the study was to investigate the changes in baseball pitching velocity, the functional reach test (FR) and the simple reaction times (SRT) in young amateur baseball players after lumbar spine patterns of neuromuscular joint facilitation (NJF) treatment. [Subjects] The subjects were 11 young amateur baseball players. An NJF intervention and a proprioceptive neuromuscular fac...

Tip-based nanofabrication (TBN) is a family of emerging nanofabrication techniques that use a nanometer scale tip to fabricate nanostructures. In this review, we first introduce the history of the TBN and the technology development. We then briefly review various TBN techniques that use different physical or chemical mechanisms to fabricate features and discuss some of the state-of-the-art tech...

This research uses a new analytical approach for baseball evaluation, referred to as "A Bench Mark Approach," [1] by combining DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) with OERA (Offensive Earned-Run Average). An important feature of the approach is that it can select a best performer among many baseball players and evaluate their ranking scores. The DEA is an evaluation technique of various entities in...

Background: Baseball is a team sport that has a total of nine main players and includes explosive, endurance, and strength movements that can cause multiple injuries over a season due to repetitive movements, long training, and competition. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the epidemiology of shoulder and elbow injuries in Iranian Premier League baseball players. Methods: 79...

Background. Training in any sport aims to maximize athletes’ physical capacity. Objectives. This study aimed to determine the effects of two training programs, functional training, and weight training, on the physical capacity of university baseball players. Methods. The participants included 10 university baseball players, divided into the functional training group (FTG, n=5) and the weight ...

Abstract Friction between a pitcher’s fingers and the leather surface of baseball is key factor that influences ball delivery, causing Major League Baseball in United States to recently enhance enforcement rules banning unauthorized use friction-enhancing agents or sticky substances. Here, we examine how application rosin powder substances alters friction coefficient fingertip baseball. We find...