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February 2, ll
Inner ear may help
outfielder’s catching
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by Scott McCulk
United Press International
NEW YORK — Sensors in the
inner ear may play a key role
when an outfielder catches — or
misses — a fly ball, a physicist
says.
Peter J. Brancazio, of Brook
lyn College of the City Universi
ty of New York, gave his theory,
“the physics of judging a fly
ball,” at the annual meeting of
the American Physical Society
and the American Association of
Physics Teachers.
“I am especially fascinated by
the process of judging a fly ball,”
Brancazio said, who is a baseball
fan, athlete and Little League
coach.
“As soon as the ball is laun
ched — either batted or thrown
— the fielder must examine the
early stages of its trajectory, de
cide where the ball is going to
come down, and then run to the
predicted landing point at an
appropriate speed.
“The best outfielders are able
to make this judgment so surely
that they can turn their backs to
the ball, run to the chosen spot,
and wait for the ball to arrive.”
He said there is no way to
teach someone how to do it.
How does a fielder decide
where the ball is going to land?
The associate professor theo
rizes that the sudden and rapid
motion of the fielder’s head as
he looks upward to follow the
flight of the ball off the bat may
provide sensory information
that directs the player’s body to
ward the eventual landing point.
“This coordination of sensory
input with body motion evident
ly follows a neural pathway that
has been established through
the familiar behavioral process
of learning by trial and error,”
he said.
“We actually may be judging
fly balls by ear.
“It may well be that the most
useful information for the fiel
der is not even visual informa
tion. Whenever an individual
follows a moving object with his
eyes, he ordinarily moves his
head as well — and the motion
of the head and eyes must be
finely coordinated to keep the
eyes fixed on the object.
“It turns out that these com-
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