Keeping your eye on the ball

 

“Hitting coaches stress "keeping your eye on the ball. " Some say that you can see the ball to within a few feet of the plate ; others believe you can see the ball strike the bat . No matter ; what is peculiar is that such images would not reach consciousness until after the swing has been made and the ball is already on its way out of the park or in the catcher's mitt . If the brain did not somehow compensate and project the image of the approaching baseball backward in time, you would see the ball approach the plate after you had already hit it. “