* For all you science geeks out there

April 10, 2008

The “Geek Gestlat” blog on the Cnet News site features this bit on the physics of baseball, courtesy of Paul Doherty of the Exploratorium, the San Francisco-based “museum of science, art and human perception.”
Doherty talks about — and demonstrates through videos — the flight of pitched balls and the “impact” bats have on them, among other things.

For further reading on the subject, see this piece from BostonBaseball.com

The Amazon Report of the science of baseball:

The Physics of Baseball (3rd Edition)

Science of Hitting

The Art & Science of Pitching

Why a Curveball Curves: The Incredible Science of Sports (Popular Mechanics)

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