Abstract
The purpose of this study was how the physique influenced to the contents of batting by the difference of the athletic level in baseball.
Total data was collected from 1245 elite baseball players, who were selected from five different athletic level groups (high school baseball, college baseball, industry league baseball, Nippon Professional Baseball, and Major League Baseball).
Body height and weight and batting contents such as batting average, the slugging percentage and the strikeout rate were recorded for each player. Moreover, relationships among body height and weight and batting contents were examined in five groups.
As a result, body weight was strongly related with the slugging percentage. In professional players, strikeout rate was positively related with body height. However such tendency was not shown in amateur players. In each group, batting average indicated positive relation to slugging percentage and negative relation to strikeout rate.
As far as relation between slugging percentage and strikeout rate, negative tendency was shown only for amateur players.
It was suggested that the physique influenced the characteristics of batting contents showed from respective athletic level groups.
