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May 25, 2012

Strange But True!

Q. When baseball statisticians really get going, how far afield can they take things?

A. Check these out from the 2006 major league season, says Craig Robinson in “Flip Flop Fly Ball”: Pitchers of all teams threw a total of 716,083 pitches, whose cumulative distances from mound to batter would have totaled just over 8,205 miles, or roughly the distance from Busch Stadium, St. Louis, to Mumbai, India.


 
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