When a hitter watches a pitcher throw a ball, he tracks the movement of the ball with his foveal vision, which is incredibly powerful at tracking motion. But as the pitch moves away from his body and into his peripheral vision, it becomes much harder to track the motion. This is why it seems that some pitches appear to break late, dropping off the table or slipping towards home plate. But a new study suggests that this late break is due to our eyes not being able to track the movement of the ball as it slips from the field of vision into peripheral vision, rather than because the forces on the ball are different as it moves in these two different areas of the frame.
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