Rocket Science vs. Barry Bonds

Ray Radlein writes "How about a good old-fashioned Sports story? With its multitude of different statistical measures, baseball has always had the highest Geek Quotient of any major sport. Alpha Geeks of Baseball have included former relief pitcher Rob Murphy, who put his Computer Science degree to good use writing software to evaluate thoroughbred race horses, and Boston Red Sox ace and probable future Hall of Famer Curt Schilling, who not only runs a company that makes hex-based war games, but once got embroiled in an on-field feud due to Everquest. However, Baseball Geeks have a new hero to look up to: Jason Szuminski, who on Sunday became the first MIT graduate to pitch in a major league baseball game. His degree in Aerospace Engineering must have stood him in good stead as he observed the ballistic trajectory of a Barry Bonds fly ball which just barely stayed inside the Padres' new stadium."

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There is a future in Baseball for Geeks

[Pave Low]

and it's not on the field. It's in the front office.

The generation of Moneyball General Managers is here. Billy Beane, John DePodesta (Harvard), Theo Epstein (Yale) are paving the way for seamheads who know baseball and use statistical analysis to build their teams.

Now, there's hope for geeks with math and statistics degrees who want to break into baseball.

Re:sequence

[aridhol]

But Alexa determines rank by the installation of spyware. Most slashdotters know enough about spyware to not have Alexa installed.

Re:Most Geek Sport - I think not

[AaronBS]

World Series is not named so as to imply global significance, its orginal sponsor was a newspaper called the New York World.

Actually a quick google search reveals otherwise.