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Witcha . . . but . . . is the force that the Hitter applies the same as Angular Momentum? Or is he overriding it as a result of trying to thrust in a straight line?

Thanks for bearing with me . . . there were some cousins who "got together" in my lineage.

Force is cause. Applying force results in movement. Angular momentum is effect. Mass moving about a fixed point has angular momentum. Applying force (cause) results in the club acquiring angular momentum (effect).

Closely related family members "getting together" (cause) results in (somewhere along the family tree or evolutionary tree - your pick) Bucket (effect). See you already understood the concept, but just had not applied it to the physics (wasn't this easy)!