re: Hardest feat to acomplish in sports?

I wasn't talking about batting average, keeping in mind that it lowers your batting average if you hit it right to a defender, there are too many factors to look at when actually observing stats against each other...I don't know if that makes it any more or less difficult. I would put shooting a hockey puck in the top 10 most difficult things to do in sports as well. In golf, driving accuracy is also as difficult as hitting a baseball. I just believe that hitting a baseball is the most difficult thing to do.

Baseball players brains process data quicker than others. Its absolutely fascinating. They have .2 of a second to process. Keeping in mind there are 10+ different types of pitches, different heights, hand placement, arm angles of pitchers that affect the velocity and angle of the pitch approaching. Hitters are basically making an educated guess about where the ball is going to end up in the strike zone. Warren Spahn said: Hitting is timing, pitching is upsetting timing. Had I realized that simplicity earlier, I probably would have ended up playing longer.

Piggy backing on what Yogi Berra said "you can't think and hit at the same time" I feel as if Baseball and Golf are two polar opposites trying to accomplish something very similar. With one (baseball) you have no time to think and the other (golf) you unfortunately have too much time to think.