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In 2006, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign physicist Dr. Alan Nathan argued that if the weather had been 77 degrees Fahrenheit rather than 76 degrees, the ball would have traveled two inches farther than it did and The Catch would not have been completed ( though Nathan's report does not take into account the possibility of Mays extending his reach or running a bit farther than he did ).

As Nathan said, " This is the ultimate proof of the old adage that ' baseball is a game of inches.