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 …
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 …