Baseball
IN A FLASH: Honoring A Legendary Alumnus
Legendary baseball great and 51³Ô¹ÏÍø alumnus, Thurman Munson was honored with a statue and dedication ceremony at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø's Schoonover Stadium.
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Pitching for Precision on the Mound and In the Lab
Richie Dell, a senior molecular biology major, has navigated the last three years as a 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Honors College student as well as a pitcher for the 51³Ô¹ÏÍø Men’s Baseball team. With extra coursework from Honors-level classes and playing a Division I sport, he always has to be in tip-…
Honors College
IN A FLASH: Eye on the Ball
51³Ô¹ÏÍø baseball held walk-on tryouts for student players last week.
51³Ô¹ÏÍø Today
51³Ô¹ÏÍø Chemist Follows up on Baseball Core Study, Refuting MLB Findings.
In 1901, the 16 Major League Baseball teams produced 455 home runs. Players were discouraged from attempting it. Nearly 120 years later, players couldn’t seem to help themselves, and MLB smashed all previous records. More homers might mean more exciting games, but some people question why the spike happened. A 51³Ô¹ÏÍø chemist thinks he has some clues about this unusual surge in home runs.
Division of Research & Economic Development
51³Ô¹ÏÍø Chemists Reveal Changes in the Density and Chemical Composition of Major League Baseballs
Are the new Major League baseballs "juiced"? An article on FiveThirtyEight.com goes to bat on this controversial topic and has drawn interest from several other media outlets, including ESPN, USA Today and CBS Sports to name a few. Commissioned by ESPN Sport Science, researchers i…
College of Arts & Sciences