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This issue of the Baseball Research Journal looks to me to be a celebration of SABR's newest committee, the science of baseball. Several physicists, including Alan Nathan and Robert Adair, weigh in with articles on machines, bat performance, and BESR. Another essay on the vertical illusion of batters is written by Terry Bahill and David Baldwin: Baldwin has to be the only physicist alive who once pitched in the major leagues. A newsworthy article by Bill Thurston, coach at Amherst for 39 years, is one of my favorites, and kicks off this issue. Thurston's ongoing study of the Cape Cod League is chart-filled and conclusive as he compares batting averages, slugging, and ...
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