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Originally Posted by gacook
Can still throw a decent fastball, but doubt I could manage a good slider or curve these days. What's harder for me is pitching to my kids when they were playing little league. Taking the heat OFF and still keeping ball on target is tough.
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I used tennis balls when pitching to my kids when they were youngsters. This allowed me to throw pretty hard and for them to get accustomed to seeing velocities exceeding anything they were going to face until reaching the babe Babe Ruth level.
The combination of a smaller ball coming in hard and, of course, Dad's high-level hitting instruction, allowed them to feast on the relative pus they faced in games.
Can't really get a tennis ball to do much, but until they started seeing junk at 12 or 13 it made no difference.
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