The Toughest Trade

[AZOffaly]

Jackie catching the ball bare handed

[twohands!!!]

Sliotar
The following regulations apply:
The diameter is between 69 mm and 72 mm
The mass is between 110 g and 120 g
The rib height is between 2 mm and 2.8 mm, and width between 3.6 mm and 5.4 mm
The leather cover can be between 1.8 mm and 2.7 mm and is laminated with a coating of no more than 0.15 mm

Baseball
It is 9.00–9.25 inches (228.60–234.95 mm) in circumference (2.86–2.94 in or 72.64–74.68 mm in diameter) and masses from 5.00 to 5.25 ounces (141.75 to 148.83 g).

Not a huge bit of difference in the sizes of sliotar and baseball

[twohands!!!]

Cummins with the baseball bat 

[AZOffaly]

Cummins is a gas man.


The balls are the same size roughly, but the baseball is way harder.

[twohands!!!]

Cummins is a gas man.


The balls are the same size roughly, but the baseball is way harder.

Yeah - met a Yank once who had his head caved in by one once and had a metal plate in his head.

As against that catching must be so much easier when you don't have someone else challenging you for a ball.

[armaghniac]

Johnny Hanratty teaching Bently the rules, no better man.

[twohands!!!]

After 2 training sessions with Crossmaglen, Bentley hasnt figured out that you can't just take the man out #nocomment

[brokencrossbar1]

Whaa giving rules instructions!!!! You have to laugh like!

[twohands!!!]

Not a bad watch but not hugely insightful.

Wonder if any of the baseball lads will be over to scout the Kilkenny lads anytime soon?

[JimStynes]

bit disappointed by that. The Bentley segment was the best and the most realistic test out of them all. He would be a cracking footballer I reckon.

[T Fearon]

Felt this would have been better if if had focussed on just two,not four players,or if first half was devoted entirely to Bentley and Kernan,and the second half to Tyrell and the baseball player.Very impressed with Bentley,certainly shattered a few perceptions about Premiership players.

[armaghniac]

You'd wonder what was in it for Bentley, but perhaps he is not quite a typical Premiership player.

[Rossfan]

Can't help feeling that a better station would have made 4 programmes out of it.

[armaghniac]

Can't help feeling that a better station would have made 4 programmes out of it.

The more you think about it, the cost of travel etc, it is astonishing not to make 2 programmes at least.

[AZOffaly]

I'd say this was as much an AIB vehicle as anything else. #thetoughest is their slogan for the club championship, Brendan Cummins and Eoin Larkin work for AIB. I'd say they basically wanted a long ad for Tuesday's games.