A baseball swing is performed by the batter. A batter is someone performing the act of batting. The act of batting comes from an old term that got rolled up into English ages ago; bat. To bat something means to beat, strike, or hit something (usually out of the air). It's not a modern term and doesn't require the word baseball to convey properly.
So you'd write it this way.
This will do, but if you want to give the exact mental image of the motions a baseball swing would be, you could do it this way, among many other ways:
(that reads a little meh to me, but I didn't want to change your sentence completely, anyway)
I prefer not to use modern real world references even outside of dialogue as it does a good job ripping me out of the scene. But that's just me and not everyone is going to mind.
So you'd write it this way.
Quote:He decides to give him a good bat with the blunt end of his very top heavy spear to do the job.
This will do, but if you want to give the exact mental image of the motions a baseball swing would be, you could do it this way, among many other ways:
Quote:...decided to lower his grip on the spear, so low that he was able to wind it in a wide arc behind him and give him a good bat with the blunt end of his very top heavy spear to do the job.
(that reads a little meh to me, but I didn't want to change your sentence completely, anyway)
I prefer not to use modern real world references even outside of dialogue as it does a good job ripping me out of the scene. But that's just me and not everyone is going to mind.
