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Old Wed Mar 10, 2010, 07:25pm
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Assuming the batter is about 6', double his heighth and that is where the ball is. The ball is about twice the heighth of the batter. 15', I bet the batter isn't 7'6" Dave
Because the video is at the perfect angle where you can tell all these things. Suuuuuuure.

The pitch was just fine, fellas.
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Old Fri Mar 12, 2010, 06:16am
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Because the video is at the perfect angle . . .
And don't forget the type of lens (I'm guessing a slightly wide angled lens) as well as the depth of field perspective.

If you consider the batter 6', then it looks about 11' to me.
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Old Fri Mar 12, 2010, 07:51am
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And don't forget the type of lens (I'm guessing a slightly wide angled lens) as well as the depth of field perspective.

If you consider the batter 6', then it looks about 11' to me.
And here the consensus was that 10' was already the max height for all games in the South. Guess I was lied to....again.
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Old Fri Mar 12, 2010, 09:30am
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And don't forget the type of lens (I'm guessing a slightly wide angled lens) as well as the depth of field perspective.

If you consider the batter 6', then it looks about 11' to me.
I have it on good authority that it was 3.6353748984 meters exactly.

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