Google Images Creative Commons Licenses Baseball is known as America’s favorite pastime, and it’s easy to see why. From parents and children throwing the ball around their backyard to pitching and practicing batting at the local ballpark, it’s a huge part of the community in many areas. Travel the streets in your local neighborhood, and […]
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Wearing makeup? curious. reporter: the guys in the field, we don t make the money you do in new york so you have to do our own powder on our foreheads. we re like bill. no airbrushing here, that s for sure! martha: how does all this work? reporter: you know about the you know what s cool about this story? the giants, close to silicon valley, they would be the ones to do the high-tech stuff. the company doing the baseball technology is the company that brought you the first downline on your football telecast, the yellow line on the screen when you re watching a football game, the company is fort vision, based in the bay area. we have video for you, we went out and pitched the test track system, pitch effects, fox sports calls it pitch track. we threw a baseball into a net. as you can see by using cameras and computers they track the spin on the baseball, how fast i threw it, what was the speed when it left my hand, what was the speed it when when it crossed home plate, how much