Talk:Curveball

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[edit] Altitude

Maybe some mention should be made of the difficulty of throwing a curve in high-altitude (eg. Coors Field)?

• Does it even make a significant difference worth mention? I know the high altitude and thin air are factors, but they affect hits more then pitches. I doubt the ball is THAT significantly impacted from a distance of 60 ft. 6 in. as opposed to the average fly ball that travels anywhere from 120-160 ft.

Maybe who cares?

[edit] integral/derivative

Position is the second integral of acceleration. Really, it is. For an object with fixed mass, like a baseball, acceleration is proportioal to force. So I wrote

 position is the second integral of force

This isn't strictly correct, but seems reasonable for an article of this length and technical depth. Also, it refers directly to "force", which is the subject of the preceeding two sentences, and avoids discussion of F = ma. If we want to be more precise, we can reword the sentence to get from force to acceleration to position. Swmcd 02:33, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] structure

The giant lump of text before the ToC needs to go. Someone needs to organize and structure this like woah.

Edited this to clean up. I maintained most of the points, but removed some errant information like the suggestion that Mike Mussina throws a curve (he throws a knuckle curve, which is a different deal). Other minor points as well. Sackpeterson 15:57, 14 July 2007 (UTC)sackpeterson