Science of Baseball

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• Learn more about baseball, data analysis, physics, and statistics.

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For you reluctant learners that would rather think about sports and you baseball buffs too! Exploratorium’s Science of Baseball website has all kinds of features, exhibits, games, and articles.Fastball Reaction Time imitates a 90-mph fastball thrown by a major league pitcher. While this exhibit doesn’t test if you could actually hit a fastball, it does test whether you could react in time to hit one. Find out about the science behind this game and then move on to find what makes a homerun at Scientific Slugger.Read articles about how “baseball is a game played at the edge of biological time, just within the limits of a human’s ability to react” and baseball in Japan. The activities will have throwing a curve ball; finding the “sweet spot”; determining how high a ball will bounce; and more.Check out the special features to find out how far you can hit a ball (and the factors that affect this); move a player through time and see how his stats change; examine the tools of the baseball trade: bats, balls, and gloves; learn about women in the history of baseball; and discover the science behind hitting the ball.