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Podcast: The Perception & Action Podcast
Episode: 21E - Sport Science Shorts: A Ball By Any Other Color
Description: Does ball color effect performance in sports? Do cricket batsman have the right to complain about pink balls and baseball batters about the brief experiment with orange ones?
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Articles/links:
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2015/oct/27/to-see-or-not-to-see-australian-cricket-divided-over-pink-ball-test
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