Video - Dwight Howard Takes Batting Practice With Phillies

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Dwight Howard: Baseball Player?
Published 1/3/2008 by Brett Edwards at FanHouse
Filed under: Magic, NBA Videos, Phillies Could Dwight Howard have been a baseball player? It's an interesting proposition, and one that doesn't seem all that far fetched when you see how quickly the Phillies' hitting coach was able to get Dwight to start connecting. The real question though, as was so eloquently posed over at Bugs and Cranks is this: Can Ryan Howard (or any of the Phillies, for that matter) dunk? You can teach someone to hit a baseball, sure, but size and hops are gifts that someone would seemingly need to be born with. ...

DWIGHT HOWARD SHOWS HOW HARD IT IS TO HIT A BASEBALL
Published 1/3/2008 by Jack Cobra at EPIC CARNIVAL | SPORTS NEWS WITH A TWIST
by Jack Cobra, Cobra Brigade Kudos go out to Bugs & Cranks for finding this video of Orlando Magic superstar Dwight Howard taking some batting practice with the Philadelphia Phillies last April. I've had the pleasure of working some baseball camps for kids and one of the most rewarding aspects is watching a child go from not being able to hit, to being able to make solid contact with the ball. That being said, it looks fairly obvious that Howard is going to have a really tough time making that leap. Stick to basketball.....Throw it down, big ...

Dwight Howard is not Tony Gwynn
Published 1/3/2008 by Jack Cobra at Cobra Brigade
Hitting a baseball is the most difficult thing to do in sports, but Orlando Magic Center Dwight Howard figured he'd give it a shot. As you can tell, the results are not pretty.....