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Letter: For the record

Published 2 January 2008

• It is not certain that the extra inertia of a heavier, humid baseball (as compared with a dry baseball) counters its slower speed as it leaves the bat, as we suggested (15 December 2007, p 15).

Issue no. 2637 published 5 January 2008

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