Barry Bonds played 22 seasons in the Major Leagues with the Pirates and the Giants. He is without a doubt considered one of the greatest players in the history of baseball. He was a seven-time MVP, 14-time All-Star selection, and an eight-time Gold Glove winner. He holds many MLB batting records including most career home …
This January I gave similar talks at both the Math Conference in Seattle Washington and at the Kiwanis Club of Naples on the Gulf. Both talks discussed my philosophy of teaching. That is, the teaching of any subject matter is more successful for the teacher and more enjoyable for the student if the student both …
On Wednesday, January 6, 2016 Baseball’s Hall of Fame President Jeff Idelson announced that former Seattle Mariners great Ken Griffey Jr. was among two players elected to the Hall as part of the Class of 2016. Griffey becomes the 51st first ballot Hall of Fame member, and joins Mike Piazza in this year’s class. Griffey received …
Three blocks away from the Babe Ruth Museum is the Sports Legends Museum at Camden Yards, which is the state’s sports history headquarters. It features exhibits on the Baltimore Orioles, Colts, Ravens and Blast; Orioles Hall of Fame; Negro League teams; the Preakness; the Maryland Athletic Hall of Fame; regional college athletics; a Kids’ Discovery Room; …
Seattle is a great place to visit. Some of the sights of interest include the Space Needle, the downtown waterfront, the Klondike Gold Rush Museum, Pike Place Market, the Ballard Locks, the Chihuly Garden and Glass Museum, and many other exciting sights. Many of these sights are free and the rest are very inexpensive. Of …
The Joint Meeting of the two major math associations, the MAA and the AMS, was held January 6-10, 2016 in Seattle, Washington. I was selected to present a paper on how I use baseball to teach statistics using my book Sandlot Stats. My wife Tara persuaded me to take a tour of Safeco Field, the …
A streak in sports occurs when a team or player increases their performance to a higher level resulting in consecutive successes over consecutive trials. A trial could be a team’s game and success for that trial could be a win; a trial could be all plate appearances of a player for one game with success …
Sabermetrics is derived from the acronym SABR used for the Society of American Baseball Research. Sabermetrics is the science that uses baseball data to form statistics allowing baseball people to make objective baseball decisions. In the past most general managers just followed what previous general managers did in making crucial decisions. However, as the amount …
When it looked like the winter meetings would be a ho hum experience for the Mets, things suddenly changed for the Mets. The Mets had targeted Ben Zobrist as there must get guy to become their new second baseman. After losing out on Zobrist, it seemed the Mets had no plan B. It became clear …
This is the time of the year where all the baseball action turns from the players on the field to the players signing new contracts with different teams. At the end of the so called Hot Stove League I will present my thoughts on which teams were winners and which were losers in the signing …