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Monday, April 23, 2007 |
See The Ball, Hit The Ball: How Eye Tech Is Changing Baseball
The Times has a good article about changes in vision technology changing baseball. Whether it's James Loney's amber-tinted contact lenses, the $85,000 "enhanced ocular device" that fires marked tennis balls at up to 155 MPH, or lasik surgery, ballplayers are looking at ways to improve their vision as a way to improve their game.
The role that sight plays hasn't always been well understood, but as far back as the 1920's, the connection between seeing the ball and hitting the ball was obvious:
The relationship between good eyesight and baseball prowess has been known since 1921, when Columbia University researchers tested Babe Ruth's vision and found the Yankee slugger's eyes worked about 12% faster than those of an average person."Fundamentally he wasn't the strongest. He wasn't the best athlete," said Dr. Bill Harrison, a leading sports vision specialist. "There was a lot of things that he was not. But he was the best visually. So there's some kind of connection there."
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