Keeping his eye on the strike zone.

• Position: Baseball - Jordan Underwood - Brief article

No Division I coach thought Jordan Underwood's pitching career could survive the line drive that destroyed his left eye in April 2009. But two years after being fitted with an acrylic eye, Underwood has emerged as the ace pitcher at Southeast Missouri State University, a Division I program. Experts say that two human eyes are needed to help the brain process depth to about 20 feet; beyond that, one eye can do the job. So given that the strike zone, 60 feet 6 inches away, is basically a static rectangle with no depth, doctors...