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If anything, each of my post adds something NEW. I have posted many times on this theme because I enjoy it. I don't keep repeating the same old lines. I have offered a variety of ideas for you to consider. About the only thing I repeat is that a baseball can be thrown THROWN OVERHAND over a horizontal distance. If it is thrown hard enough, say 100 mph, it will not appear to rise, IT WILL RISE before it HITS the MITT. It REALLY NEVER FALLS if it travels horizontally, does it? The fact you can't see it RISE may be the very reason you don't believe it is rising at all. Let's see, Horizontal flight = Balance of RISE and FALL, Hmmmm.

The baseball, released from about 7 feet (under GRAVITY) falls 5 feet into the 2 foot high strike zone because that is where the PITCHER AIMED. That's my argument. An 18 year old kid can throw the baseball HORIZONTALLY for 60 feet. He doesn't need to aim above the catcher's mit. The catcher can stand up and raise his arm to seven feet. The pitcher after some warm up tosses can throw the ball straight into the catcher's mitt. NO GRAVITATIONAL effects until the ball begins to FALL. No aiming 5 feet above the mitt (HEEHEEHEE). Any third baseman in pro ball can throw a LINER to first. Gravity plays little role on a LINER. SORRY DUDES. Its time to change the tune. Perhaps the ball would have fallen had the mitt not been there. But I didn't see any fall over shorter distances.