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How long does it take to read The Science of Hitting?

Ted Williams

The Science of Hitting by Ted Williams takes about 1 hour 37 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 1 hour 37 minutes

An evening's read

First published 1971. 88 pages, about 24,200 words.

4 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 2 hours 41 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 1 hour 37 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 1 hour 1 minute

The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Ted Williams is our greatest living expert on how to hit a baseball -- the last baseball player to hit .400 in the major leagues. Williams's career hitting statistics will stand forever as a monument to his complete mastery of the single most difficult thing to do in sport: .344 lifetime batting average, 521 home runs, 1839 RBI and 2654 hits. The Science of Hitting has reigned as the classic handbook on hitting since being published in 1971, and now it's even better! Ted's hitting advice has been updated, and exciting new color graphics and photos have been added to enhance your reading pleasure. The Gallery of Great Hitters has been expanded to include Ted's choices for the best hitters of the 70s and 80s. Look inside to see who made the cut! You'll still find all of Ted's great advice on how to improve your turn at bat and become the best hitter possible. Learn: how to think like a pitcher and guess the pitch; three cardinal rules for developing a smooth line-drive swing; the secrets of hip and wrist action; pitch selection; bunting; hitting the opposite way; and much more! - Back cover.

Subjects: Batting (Baseball), Batear (Beisbol), Baseball, Offense

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