i doubt it would have been easier, the ball would move so much farther and faster hitting it w/ a bat like that, almost uncontrollable really. a baseball being slightly heavier and more solid, easier to direct w/ that kind of force. oooooor it could just be really good fakery there. seems like almost inhuman coordination there to me, but /shrug if it is real thats some of the most incredible stuff i've seen in a while.

Also check out F For Fake - http://www.criterion.com/asp/release.asp?id=288 - the film Orson Welles made. It deals with art forger Elmyr De Hory, who Clifford Irving wrote the biography of before he got the idea to do his Hughes book. It deals with the Irving Hughes scandal and various other notions of fakery.

The extra features on the DVD are good too, including a 60 minutes interview with Irving and the telephone interview Hughes was forced to do to defend himself against the claims made in the book.

Don't see why they would fake it. If they're a legit company such fakery would be the end of them. The article seems to suggest they are for real.
Also to my eye, that *looks* about 60ppm which is around what they're claiming for one model.

sfjocko, that is bizarre, hmm i will have to attempt to determine why that happens.

Legal info on it's fakery here,

http://www.stillfree.com/legal.html

as well as Marc Ecko's spiel about his "motivations"

http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=1571