Sunday, November 12, 2017

Off-Season Scientist

In the days before free agency led to a huge increase in player salaries, stars often worked in the off-season at odd jobs. I remember Richie Hebner working as a grave digger. Paul DeJong has a more interesting job:

The last World Series was one for the record books with more home runs hit than ever before – and some believe it is because of the heat.

As CBS2’s Steve Overmyer reported Thursday, that hypothesis was the focus of an experiment by a world-renowned scientist and a special lab partner.

In a chemistry lab at Long Island University Post, an alliance between sports and science has been born. Dr. Lawrence Rocks is the world-renowned scientist, while Paul DeJong is a shortstop with the St. Louis Cardinals who has a degree in biochemistry.

Their experiment showed that hotter isn’t always better.



from baseballmusings.com http://ift.tt/2jkTKpY

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