Not for the "faint of heart"..........

[BoardMember]

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[FiveFrameSwing]

Pretty cool BM.

 

[abbygale]

That's a hilarious way to set it up. Crack in space - time continuum?

 

[tojo]

Looks to me like the ball actually lifts right before it gets to the batter then levels off. Or could I be seeing things? Kinda Spooky.

 

[sluggers]

Can you send me the original without the lines?

 

[NVfishing]

Do you know who shot Kennedy?

 

[Lozza]

Lee Harvey Oswald.

 

[FiveFrameSwing]

Can you send me the original without the lines?

Same here ... would like to have a less edited version. I actually redrew the lines ... but the result wasn't drastically different in terms of what we see.

 

[tojo]

Does this mean that we are going to re-open the "does the riseball really rise" threads? It certainly appears to me that the ball actually rises above the original trajectory.

 

[sluggers]

Sorry Boardmember, no cigar.

This video, or another like it, has been floating around the Internet for years. Someone drags it out as "proof" of the ball rising one every two or three years. The camera rotates and zooms during the flight of the ball, creating the appearance of the ball moving upward.

It isn't a whole lot different from this:

<iframe width="425" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/NB6DSKJZ1T4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

From one camera position, you see an "X" across the room. From another slightly different camera position, you see that the room has been cleverly taped.

If you want to "prove" the riseball rises, shoot the entire flight of the ball "in frame" during the pitch. No one should be touching, zooming or moving the video camera. And, use a little bit better quality camera.