Is a curveball actually moving, or is your brain just tricking you?
In short: In baseball, the difficulty of hitting a curveball may depend less on the pitcher's physical delivery and more on how the batter's eyes perceive the movement.
This video explores the physiological and perceptual reasons why curveballs are so difficult to track. Rather than focusing solely on the physics of the pitcher's arm, it investigates the possibility that the perceived deviation of the ball is a matter of visual perception.
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