A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SELECTED PHYSICAL FITNESS PARAMETERS OF INTER-COLLEGE AND INTER-VARSITY BASEBALL PLAYERS

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to compare the college level and university level baseball players with regard to selected physical fitness parameters.For this purpose, the investigator has selected forty (N= 40) Inter- college and Intervarsity male baseball players of 18 to 25 years of age to act as subjects. The subjects were purposive assigned in to two group: - A: Intercollege (N1=20) and Group – B: intervarsity (N2=20). The purposive sampling technique was used to select the subject. All the subjects, after having been informed about the objective and the protocol of the study, gave their consent and volunteered to participate in this study. To determine the significant difference between intervarsity and intercollege baseball players, unpaired t-test was employed for data analysis. To test the hypothesis, the level of significance was set at 0.05.