Rounding the Bases Faster, With Math

An anonymous reader writes "The fastest route around the bases, mathematicians show, is one that perhaps no major-league ball player has ever run: It swings out a full 18.5 feet from the baseline, nearly forming a full circle. 'I would definitely experiment with it,' says former American Major League Baseball outfielder Doug Glanville, who last played with the Philadelphia Phillies. 'There's no question in my mind that runners could be more efficient.'"

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Re:Baseball is still a shitty sport.

[westlake]

No amount of math and analysis will change the fact that baseball is a pretty poor excuse for a "sport"

Baseball is the only game left for people.

To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width. ~Bill Veeck, 1975

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world.

If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off. ~Bill Veeck

More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood. ~Thomas Boswell, in Inside Sports

Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection. ~Red Smith

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