Afternoon Baseball

There's another book out about Game 7 of the 2001 World Series, "The Last Nine Innings," in which Charles Euchner uses that game as a microcosm of the rapid, game-altering changes hitting baseball. Bronx Banter has a review up, and I'll be putting one up soon as soon as I finish reading it. Their review, of course, will be read by about 200 times as many people.
But there's a part in the prelude where he talks about Dr. James Andrews' attempt to not just fix athletes, but try to figure out what works so that athletes don't get hurt in the first place. His American Sports Medicine Institute used video and scientific studies of the motions (broken down into many parts) of pitchers. Their conclusion: "Roger Clemens was one of about fifty pitchers that ASMI concluded had virtually mechanics."

Watching him, it's apparent from the naked, uneducated eye that he's doing something right. Science has backed up that assumption.