----- Original Message ----- From: "joanna bujes" <joanna.bujes at ebay.sun.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 1:31 PM Subject: Gould and Baseball
> At 06:56 AM 05/21/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> >Let us not forget Gould's love of baseball, perhaps the most mathematical of
> >all the major sports. He was a traditionalist (as am I) who preferred grass
> >to turf, open skies to domes, and who was a true baseball intellectual as
> >compared to that pseudo, George Will.
>
> Speaking of which, do any of you guys know where I could find an article on
> the physics of pitching/baseball? I'm trying to (sneakily) interest my
> 18-year old son in physics.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joanna
>
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Robert K Adair did a book titled "The Physics of Baseball" a while back in the '90's.
Ian
who gave up on B-Ball after the strike of '94.