MLB: Secrets of Baseball’s Best Hitters Discovered
By: Roy | July 24, 2007
All baseball and MLB fans often stare in awe of the big hitters such as Barry Bonds.
However this secret of how baseball’s big hitters in the MLB manage to hit to ball so well has now been discovered.
In order to tell the different between balls from strikes and curveballs from fastballs, the player need to lock his/her eyes directly onto the ball.
But exactly how this was done remained a mystery until the University of Pennsylvania did a study into the matter.
“Our results show that individuals vary tremendously in this ability to lock their eyes onto a moving object, called smooth pursuit, and that this variation relates strongly to a specific type of motion perception ability, so-called high-level motion perception,” said study co-author and University of Pennsylvania cognitive psychologist Jeremy Wilmer.
Do you think this latest research will help produce more big mitters in MLB in the future?
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