Slightly OT, but I've read that humans simplify ball catching by moving in such a way as to keep the ball in the same place in their field of view. There might be more details in the papers below, but paywalled so I don't know:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/01679457939...

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=1014...

"the eyes and/or the head move so that the image of the moving object is maintained at the same place on the fovea"