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A "Gyro Ball" is supposedly a new pitching style that gyrates the baseball while thrown. There is debate over whether this is a "new" type of pitch or not. It was reportedly used by Daisuke at the 2006 World Baseball Classic.

This is via an excellent MetaFilter Post, here:
http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/50582

it's no googly. where's warneys footage?

more here http://tinyurl.com/qtyyv

not a sportsfan here, but...
this is really interesting, thanks dag

hmm would be nice to have real high speed footage and a straight on angle to see the movement better

Yes Farmerbuzz, this looks totally normal to me. The random looking direction of the ball stitching is more from framerate than anything I would guess. No dead bird, no vote

[shrugs] No digg.