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I think the most difficult thing to do in any sport is to make solid contact with a baseball and I’ll tell you why. It is the only sport that you can succeed only 30% of the time and be considered an All-Star. I think that in itself speaks volumes about the difficulty of having success at the plate. In order to hit a baseball traveling in excess of 90mph, a batter requires courage, amazing hand-eye coordination, and not to mention cat-like reflexes. The greatest hitters in the sport of baseball usually have a life-time average in and around the .300’s. Although there is enough open-field to get base-hits between the infielders, there is no margin for error when making solid contact with an object that is no bigger than the bat you are using to hit it with. Making contact with the ball a couple of millimeters to high or low will result in a fly-out or a weak ground-out. Miss by an inch or more and you strike out.