WRAL Sports Fan

By THE AMERICAN DREAM
Posted May 31, 5:34 p.m.

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Joined: Mar, 2012
Location: Durham, NC

RE: Baseball like lacrosse not a real sport at une

Hitting a 90 mph baseball may be challenging, but baseball is the least physically draining sport or our major sports. Soccer, football, basketball, LX, even field hockey calls for more physical conditioning. 

- Posted by FAN72

I think what makes baseball so challenging is that a player has to be capable of bursts of speed i.e. running the bases, or running in the outfield to catch a ball and then quickly throwing it to the appropriate teammate; and this is preceded by standing in one spot for a while. Baseball requires players to be prepared for all sorts of aerobic and anerobic activity; basketball is more consistent in that players run up and down the court.

I agree with BB5: it takes tremendous talent to be good at any sport. It also takes natural physical traits that you're born with i.e. above normal vision (Cam Ward had 20/8 vision), height, etc. 

- Posted by jgunn