Publications of A. Terry Bahill Related to the Science of Baseball
  1. Bahill A. T., and LaRitz T., Why can't batters keep their eyes on the ball, American Scientist, 72, 249-253, May-June 1984, invited paper (cover article).
  2. McHugh, D. E. and Bahill, A. T., Learning to track predictable target waveforms without a time delay, Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 26, 932-937, 1985.
  3. Bahill, A. T., and Karnavas, W. J., Determining ideal baseball bat weights using muscle force-velocity relationships, Biological Cybernetics, 62: 89-97, 1989.
  4. Watts, R. G., and Bahill, A. T., Keep Your Eye on the Ball: The Science and Folklore of Baseball, W. H. Freeman and Co., New York, 1990.
  5. Bahill, A. T., and Karnavas, W. J., The ideal baseball bat, New Scientist, 130(1763):26-31, 6 April 1991.
  6. Bahill, A. T. and Karnavas, W. J., The perceptual illusion of baseball's rising fastball and breaking curve ball, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 19(1):3-14, 1993. This paper was described in Science News, February 20, 1993, p. 116.
  7. Bahill, A. T. and Morna Freitas, M., Two methods for recommending bat weights, Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 23/4, 436-444, 1995.
  8. Moody, J. A., Chapman, W. L., Van Voorhees, F. D. and Bahill, A. T., The Bat Chooser, Chapter 4 in Metrics and Case Studies for Evaluating Engineering Designs, Prentice Hall PTR, Upper Saddle River, NJ, 1997. This book is out of print, but I own the copyright. I can give you permission to make copies of this book.
  9. Watts, R. G., and Bahill, A. T., Keep Your Eye on the Ball: Curve Balls, Knuckleballs, and Fallacies of Baseball, W. H. Freeman and Co., New York, second edition 2000.
  10. Bahill, A. T. and D. G. Baldwin, The vertical illusions of batters, The Baseball Research Journal, 32:26-30, 2003.
  11. Baldwin, D. G. and Bahill, A. T., A model of the bat's vertical sweetness gradient, The Engineering of Sport 5, vol. 2, (Eds.) M. Hubbard, R. D. Mehta and J. M. Pallis, Proceedings of the 5th International Engineering of Sport Conference, September 13-16, 2004, Davis, CA, International Sports Engineering Association (ISEA), Sheffield, England, pp. 305-311, (refereed). This is not a journal paper, but this is its highest level of publication.
  12. Bahill, A. T. and D. G. Baldwin, The rising fastball and other perceptual illusions of batters, Biomedical Engineering Principles in Sports, George Hung and Jani Pallis (Eds), Kluwer Academic, pp. 257-287, 2004.
  13. Bahill, A. T., The ideal moment of inertia for a baseball or softball bat, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans, 34(2):197-204, 2004.
  14. Bahill, A. T., D. G. Baldwin, and Venkateswaran, J., Predicting a baseball's path, American Scientist, 93(3):218-225, May-June 2005 (cover article). with subsequent letters to the editor letter one, letter two and Baldwin bio.
  15. Bahill, A. T., Botta, R., and Daniels, J., The Zachman framework populated with baseball models, Journal of Enterprise Architecture, 2(4):50-68, 2006.
  16. Baldwin, D. G., Bahill, A. T. and Nathan, A., Nickel and dime pitches, Baseball Research Journal, 35, 25-29, 2007 (cover article).
  17. Bahill, A. T. and Baldwin, D. G., Describing baseball pitch movement with right-hand rules, Computers in Biology and Medicine, 37:1001-1008, 2007.
  18. McBeath, M. K., Nathan, A. M., Bahill, A. T. and Baldwin, D. G., Paradoxical pop-ups: Why are they difficult to catch? American Journal of Physics, 76(8):723-729, August 2008, [DOI: 10.1119/1.2937899] (cover article).
  19. Bahill, A. T. and Baldwin, D. G., Mechanics of baseball pitching and batting, Chapter 16 Applied Biomedical Engineering Mechanics, Dhanjoo Ghista, CRC Press and Taylor & Francis Asia Pacific, pp. 445-488, 2008.
  20. Bahill, A. T., Baldwin D. G. and Ramberg, J. S., Effects of altitude and atmospheric conditions on the flight of a baseball, International Journal of Sports Science and Engineering, http://www.worldacademicunion.com/journal/SSCI/online.htm, ISSN 1750-9823 (print), 3(2):109-128, 2009.


Bahill's Conference Papers Related to the Science of Baseball
  1. Bahill, A. T., Brendel, G. F., Maskarinec, G. J., Digiola, T., McDonald, J. D. and Friedman, M. B., Does a baseball player "Keep his eye on the ball?" Modeling and Simulation, Proceedings of Twelfth Annual Pittsburgh Conference, (Eds.) W. Vogt and M. Mickle, Instrument Society of America, Pittsburgh, 1201-1206, April 30, 1981.
  2. LaRitz, T., Hall D. J., and Bahill, A. T., Modeling head and eye coordination of baseball players, Modeling and Simulation, Proceedings of Fourteenth Annual Pittsburgh Conference, (Eds.) W. Vogt and M. Mickle, Instrument Society of America, Pittsburgh, 1059-1063, 1983.
  3. Bahill, A. T., LaRitz, T., and Hall, D. J., Zero-latency tracking of baseballs and other targets, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology annual meeting, Sarasota, FL, May 1-6, 1983, p. 25.
  4. Bahill, A. T., Does the baseball player "Keep his eye on the ball?" Naval Air Systems Command Research Program Review, Orlando, Florida, May 12-13, 1983.
  5. Bahill, A. T. and LaRitz, T. Do baseball and cricket players keep their eyes on the ball? Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, India, 79-83, December 1983.
  6. Bahill, A. T. and LaRitz, T. Baseball players cannot keep their eye on the ball, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology annual meeting, Sarasota, FL, April 30 - May 4, 1984, p. 262.
  7. Bahill, A. T. Baseball players cannot keep their eyes on the ball, Proceedings of 37th ACEMB Conference, Los Angeles, p. 4, September 1984.
  8. Bahill, A. T. Baseball players cannot keep their eyes on the ball, Proceedings of 8th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Biomechanics, Tucson, p. 73, October 3-5, 1984.
  9. Bahill, A. T. and LaRitz, T. Baseball players cannot keep their eyes on the ball, Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 338-341, October 10-12, 1984.
  10. Bahill, A. T., and Karnavas, W., The force-velocity relationships for human multi-limb ballistic movements, Sixth International Symposium on Motor Control '89, Albena, Bulgaria, page 237, July 3-7, 1989.
  11. Karnavas, W. J., Bahill, A. T., and Regan, D., A model for the rising fastball and breaking curve ball, Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Los Angeles, November 5-7, 1990, pp. 924-926.
  12. Bahill, A. T. and Baldwin, D. G., Using the systems engineering process to explain baseball's rising fastball, Proceedings of the 13th Annual International Symposium of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), pages 121-134, June 29 to July 3, 2003 Washington, DC.
  13. Botta, R. and Bahill, T., The Zachman framework populated with baseball models, Proceedings of the 14th Annual International Symposium of the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE), June 20-24, 2004, Toulouse, France.
  14. Bahill, A. T. and Botta, R., Baseball models populating a Zachman framework, 5th International Engineering of Sport Conference, September 13-16, 2004, Davis, CA.
  15. Baldwin, D. G. and Bahill, A. T., A model of the bat's vertical sweetness gradient, 5th International Engineering of Sport Conference, September 13-16, 2004, Davis, CA.
  16. Bahill, A. T., A systems engineering approach to organizing baseball models, keynote address at the Asia-Pacific Congress on Sports Technology, September 11-14, 2005,
  17. Baldwin, D. G. and Bahill, A. T., Nickel patterns on pitches, Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), 36th Annual Conference, June 29-30, 2006, Seattle, WA,

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