Sports Phycology Hitting a baseball Andrew Moon
You’re pushing the human system to its limits. And that’s a good way to
see how the system works” (Stadler 2007). This is how Mike Stadler of the
University of Missouri Psychology department describes the process of hitting a
baseball and how it pertains to the human mind. In this article Stadler goes on to
give the science of how a human brain actually picks up a baseball when you are
attempting to hit it. When a pitcher unleashes a 90 mile per hour fastball at a
hitter the time it takes to react is faster than a blink of an eye. If a pitcher were to
throw particularly hard and his fastball were to reach close to 100 miles per hour,
then it stretches the limit of our brains to process the information and predict the
