The power in an overhand throw and in a golf swing, a tennis serve or a baseball swing comes from the separate turning of hips and shoulders.

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Players can wave that wand in order to swing a baseball bat or jab with a sword.

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But then he noticed that as his time for weights lessened with the demands of the baseball season, his batting swing became freer and faster.

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Despite an unorthodox, corkscrew-style swing, he finished with 3, 630 hits, currently the fourth most in baseball history, and drove in 1, 951 runs, the sixth most ever.

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