Baseball Math in Your Class

Bring Math into Your Class with the BBHOF

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Baseball Math in Your Class - Hiatus

Members! Due to some department restructuring, Baseball Math in Your Class - from our end - is going on hiatus. One of the goals of this...

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February 6

In a 19-year career with the Chicago Cubs, Ernie Banks ("Mr. Cub") had arguably the best year of his career in 1958 - though a strong cas...

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February 5

Let's go back and take another look at Earned Run Average. Randy Johnson and John Smoltz have a very similar ERA. Johnson has allowed 14...

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February 4

Presently Vladimir Guerrero and Todd Helton have a nice little race going in career slugging percentage. Todd Helton, in 5,962 at-bats, ...

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February 3

Sorry for the delay - let's get back in to it! Free agent Manny Ramirez rejected a one-year, $25 million deal from the Dodgers yesterday...

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January 29

The Cubs and the Giants battled it out for the Wild Card berth in 1998 for much of the year. Over 163 games (that's right, 163), the Cubs...

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January 28

The Boston Red Sox just fell short of another World Series berth in 2008, losing to the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in seven games in the ALCS. ...

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January 27

Pitcher Andy Pettitte signed a one-year deal with the Yankees yesterday. In 2008 Pettitte gave up 103 earned runs in 204 innings. Was hi...

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January 26

One of the fun things about looking at the upcoming season is getting to see who is likely to achieve statistical milestones. Rangers' sh...

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January 23

The 1927 World Series was touted to be one of the best of all-time, featuring the two best-hitting teams, the Pirates and the Yankees, sq...

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Pat Jewett

Great Idea!

I use to sell Medical insurance but got into teaching a couple of years ago because Ithought I could "do better" than the teachers my kids had. They were boring an unimaginative. This idea is great and an excellent example of the kinds of things I try to do in the classroom. Thank you for sharing!

Posted by Pat Jewett on September 18, 2009 at 11:42pm

James Yasko

So...what are we doing, exactly?

The Baseball Hall of Fame is a non-profit, educational institution. This is a way we can connect with schools in a free, easy, open way to reinforce math concepts. We do offer an education program entitled "Batter Up" either on-site or through videoconferencing. Click the link to see the online thematic unit.

Here we are using daily box scores, found in newsp… Continue

Posted by James Yasko on April 9, 2008 at 8:00am

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