Josh Hamilton recently claimed he does n’t hit well during the day because he has blue centre . Whether or not it ’s the color of his eye , there is a meaning difference : as of June 24 , he was hitting .122 ( 6 - for-49 ) during the day and .347 at night . As oculist Richard Ison explained toESPN :
Hamilton said he has started wear red contact lenses during day games to draw in less Christ Within and help him see the clump better . For now , he say it ’s made a difference , and that he may have lick his genetical fault .
But there ’s really a lot to love about disconsolate middle .
First of all , there ’s the fact that most of us start off with blue eye , then assume more melanin as we develop up . In fact , Hamilton should be lofty to be part of an exclusive club : recent study found that only one in six Americans now have blue eyes , down from roughly 50 pct at the beginning of the 20th century .
And according to transmissible research , those few blue - eyed folks are all refer . Hans Eiberg at the University of Copenhagen hypothesise that humans all come out with brown eyes until one exclusive genetic mutation create blue center . All blue - eyed people , Eiberg tell , demonstrated the same tweak in their deoxyribonucleic acid , meaning that they can all be traced back to one ascendant .
But those risque eye may think of that Hamilton is smarter at certain tasks . In a 2007 Britishstudy , investigator find that blue - eyed people were good at strategic thinking and by and large performed better in tasks that required farseeing - terminal figure thought , such as track or golf . Meanwhile , browned - eyed topic had quicker reaction fourth dimension .
If none of that helps , Hamilton should also agnise there ’s a rather majestic bequest of blue - eyed baseball players . Cal Ripken Jr. , Mickey Mantle , and Lou Gehrig all did just all right with their blasphemous eyes .
