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RT @athletexpodcast: Your brain processes 4,000 words per minute of internal dialogue. But elite athletes know a psychological hack to mas…

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RT @TheAtlantic: New technology that measures exactly how baseball players’ fingers interact with the ball while throwing a pitch could rev…

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@evanmcmurry Thanks so much Evan

“We’re just now catching up to where we’ve been for many decades in the auditory and visual fields,” said David Ginty at Harvard Medical School. Can a long-overdue boom in touch research adjust the narrative around the "golden arm"?

"This could be pitching’s next great analytical frontier." #Game3 #YankeesDodgers read: New research into the science of touch can tell us a lot about great pitching -- and that's the tip of the iceberg.

The last peak force exerted through the fingertips onto a baseball is enough to heave a bowling ball 90mph. Could this be the key to great pitching? My story on the arrival of touch science in baseball:

For a long time, I've wondered whether "feel" could be measured. Thank you to @TheAtlantic for giving me the opportunity to explore. What I found out about the science of touch has implications for all of us.

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@markisenbe16360 Thanks Mark, very kind of you

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