@article{ref1,
title="The rising fastball: baseball's impossible pitch",
journal="Perception",
year="1990",
author="McBeath, M. K.",
volume="19",
number="4",
pages="545-552",
abstract="Batters in professional baseball are confronted with pitches that appear to curve, dip, wobble, or rise. The rising fastball is a pitch where the ball appears to hop up as much as a third of a meter with a sudden increase in speed. Physics experiments confirm that many reported trajectories are possible, but not the rising fastball. The present paper shows how the apparent rise may be explained as a perceptual illusion due to the hitter underestimating original speed of the pitch.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0301-0066",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}