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What is the reaction force when baseball catcher catches and stops a baseball?

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When the baseball catcher catches a baseball, then ... during the time that he is slowing the ball down and stopping it ... he is exerting an action force with his glove on the ball, and the ball is exerting an equal and opposite reaction force on his glove.

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