News tagged with curveball
Breaking ball too good to be true (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Curveballs curve and fastballs go really fast, but new research suggests that no pitcher can make a curveball "break" or a fastball "rise."
Oct 13, 2010 |
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Orthopaedic experts examine overhead
Baseball season is underway. With the pros, college and high school teams taking to the baseball diamonds and Little Leaguers soon to follow, orthopedic specialists at Rush University Medical Center are cautioning players ...
Apr 08, 2009 |
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Sun delivered curveball of powerful radiation at Earth
A potent follow-up solar flare, which occurred Friday (Jan. 17, 2012), just days after the Sun launched the biggest coronal mass ejection (CME) seen in nearly a decade, delivered a powerful radiation punch ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 01, 2012 |
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Neural balls and strikes: Where categories live in the brain
Hundreds of times during a baseball game, the home plate umpire must instantaneously categorize a fast-moving pitch as a ball or a strike. In new research from the University of Chicago, scientists have pinpointed an area ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jan 15, 2012 |
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Discovering Autism: Homing in on the right label
When autism researchers arrived at Norristown State Hospital near Philadelphia a few years ago, they found a 63-year-old man who rambled on about Elvis Presley, compulsively rocked in his chair and patted the corridor walls.
Dec 19, 2011 |
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White favoritism by Major League umps lowers minority pitcher performance, pay
When it comes to Major League Baseball's pitchers, the more strikes, the better. But what if white umpires call strikes more often for white pitchers than for minority pitchers?
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 07, 2011 |
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The Medical Minute: Keeping the young pitcher healthy
Late childhood and early adolescence is a period of a tremendous development for the young elbow. During these years, several growth plates emerge and fuse in a coordinated fashion to assume the anatomy required ...
Apr 28, 2011 |
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New 10-year study confirms too many pitches strike out youth athletes early
For years, sports medicine professionals have talked about youth pitching injuries and the stress the motion causes on developing bones and muscles. In a new, 10-year study published in the February issue of the American Jo ...
Feb 01, 2011 |
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Jabulani ball 'too perfect' to fly straight - scientists
When it comes to the World Cup Jabulani football, perfect may not be good enough, according to scientists who have analysed the controversial ball.
Jun 29, 2010 |
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Researchers Use Wind Tunnels to Test New World Cup Ball
Every four years, a new official soccer ball is designed for and used during World Cup matches. And every four years, players criticize the new ball.
Jun 08, 2010 |
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No such thing as a break in a curveball?
The answer to the question of whose curveball breaks harder -- that of the Yankees' A.J. Burnett or the Phillies' Cole Hamels -- may be neither.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Oct 27, 2009 |
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'Curve ball' wins international illusion contest
Science has proven what baseball players have known for more than a hundred years, the curve ball is more powerful than the brain.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
May 26, 2009 |
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