Abstract:
The primary purpose of this study was to develop an assistive instrument to batting
practices and to improve hand eye coordination in baseball in order to investigate
the subsequent training effect. The balls were pitched one by one from the assistive
instrument at a constant speed to enable the practicing of batting skills. A quantitative
research approach was followed to analyze the impact of practicing through the assistive
instrument and to identify the strategies which baseball players can adopt to improvise
the impact of batting skills. The assistive instrument consisted of a 12v wheel motor to
feed the ball automatically and two 12V Dc speed motors to pitch the ball to a particular
distance. To test the accuracy of the instrument, a training group (n=5), and a control
group (n=5) were used by purposive sampling method. The two groups were denoted
as Team-A and Team-B. Team-A was allowed to practice 15 hits through the assistive
instrument. Each batter of Team-A was allowed to hit 5 balls before and after batting
practice to investigate the training effect while the batters in team B were not given
any other practices. Paired t-test was used to analyze the data. The results indicate a
significantly enhanced batting performance after the practice (p<0.05). thus, the study
revealed that there is an impact on practicing through the assistive instrument on the
performance of baseball players.
