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Baseball technology

Golly, Mr. Science

October 23, 2012 · 0 comments

Love to see the disciplines getting together, don’t you. Like Dr. Robert Adair’s classic TThe Physics of Baseball (3rd Edition) and Why a Curveball Curves: The Incredible Science of Sports (Popular Mechanics), et al. So that’s why I love stuff like this from Alan Nathan’s The Physics of Baseball website. Lots of great links. A [...]

Tagged as: Physics of Baseball

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* Bits and Pieces

August 28, 2009 · 0 comments

Trying to catch up, once again: * A review of Satchel and an interview with author Larry Tye, from BeyondtheBoxScore.com. And an excerpt from Sportfeelgoodstories.com. * From his mouth to God’s ears (as my people say). From Foxbusiness.com, word that — according to the author of a book on Bernie Madoff: “Fred Wilpon, the owner [...]

Tagged as: baseball book news

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* Because you can keep a batting helmet on your bookshelf…

August 13, 2009 · 0 comments

This piece on a new generation of protective gear from The New York Times. The macho-ness of the athlete still prefers cool over safety. But ask some of the poor guys who were badly injured by bean balls to see if they might not have wanted one of these babies. …[I]t is hard to predict [...]

Tagged as: baseball equipment, batting helmets

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