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April 15, 2005

Strange But True!

Q. OK now, baseball slugger ... Your girlfriend's coming to see you in action at the stadium, and you'd really like to impress her with your raw batsman's power. You're not into "corking" the lumber. What's an honest guy to do?

A. You just might be a hit with her if you read up on "How to Hit Home Runs: Optimum Baseball Bat Swing Parameters for Maximum Range Trajectories," by Gregory Sawicki and Mont Hubbard ("American Journal of Physics"). You already know from Robert Adair's "Physics of Baseball" that a warm day in the thin air of a Denver will add feet to your clout. So too will an accommodating tailwind.


 
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