[Yasuraka]

>If we later move all the balls farther away, we don't expect the batter to hit farther.

I was about to mention the psychological barrier phenomena according to which, once a record is broken, scores of athletes move past it in short time, to say that this might actually be an example where it could have an impact if the batter is aware.

But then I realized that I never questioned this idea and was just believing something I heard at some point many years ago. Turns out, it's just another piece of "pop sci" trivia, aka misconstrued or wrong: https://www.scienceofrunning.com/2017/05/the-roger-bannister...