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Break in Curveball Too Good to be True 1:58

Curveballs do curve, but new research suggests that no pitcher can make a curveball “break.” The “breaking curveball” (a sudden drop in trajectory as the ball nears home plate) is an illusion created as the batter’s eye shifts between central and peripheral vision.

Video by Mira Zimet & Zane Fried