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Originally Posted by Robert Goodman
I will say, though, that unless I'm especially bad at it, judging a fly ball is hard. I remember as an outfielder trying out for the JV coming in on a ball that wound up landing far over my head. Where I'd thought it was going to come down was actually the apex of its flight. Or course it didn't help that I was looking into the sun. (It might also have helped if I'd worn glasses. I gradually became myopic and astigmatic starting in my teens, but didn't get glasses until I was 25.) Probably I'd've been better off getting to one side of the direction of its flight instead of first moving to directly in line, where there was 0 parallax and it just looked like it was going up & down. If I were watching from behind the plate, same problem.
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And that is the exact reason why we are taught to wait as late as possible to make the IFF call, to ascertain that is within the guidelines of truly being an IFF and that it will be caught with "ordinary effort".