News Stories relating to "baseball"

Mathematicians investigate baseball! One way for a major league hitter to win a baseball game is to veer toward the dugout on the way to first base. While at first glance this route might not seem the best way to start a sprint toward home plate, it's the actually fastest way around the diamond.

Although the quickest path to first base...

"Monk" with a baseball bat? The image of the obsessive-compulsive TV detective swinging away may seem ludicrous, but it's not so far-fetched after all, because it turns out that the best athletes are all "OC." And You know you shouldn't take vitamins after you exercise. We've also told you that chocolate milk and coffee work better than sports...

It's all in the POST season! - What's the baseball post-season worth to a team?in money, that is? New research shows for each postseason win, the Philadelphia Phillies organization will receive approximately $2.5 million in revenue this year and $3.3 million in revenue next year. Each Tampa Bay win will bring in approximately $...

A losing team might call this a conspiracy, but it's really only science: while 90% of the human population is right-handed, in baseball 25% of the players, both pitchers, and hitters, are lefties. The game of baseball is actually designed to favor left-handed players.

Engineer David A. Peters says, "There is a premium on lefthanders...

After baseball's offensive explosion of the late 1990s, Major League Baseball's batters cooled off beginning in the 2001 season, and two university historians think they know why: a larger de facto strike zone beginning in 2001 and drug-testing (starting in 2003) in the major leagues.

Now that the Superbowl is over and baseball season will arrive soon, a new study finds that switching to a new stadium can have a dramatically bad effect on a team's performance, because it reduces players' testosterone levels. "It'll probably cost you a couple of points in a season, and in some sports, that's the difference between winning and...