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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 4264799, member: 199"] I was interested in checking the time from rubber to batter between 77 MPH women's softball pitch at 46' and for a 100 MPH fastball at 60'6" - it ends up being almost identical to six 1000th of a second (.406 vs .413 sec). Of course neither baseball or softball pitchers release the ball at the rubber, but I am not sure what the actual relative distances would be but suspect they would add to the softball's relative speed. But I agree, totally different games with different dynamics on both bat and ball and clearly hitting in softball is at a much greater premium than in baseball - no baseball pitcher has ever had the type of seasons softball pitchers have routinely. [/QUOTE]