It's baseball season and from exit velocity to the rotation of a curveball

science can help explain the hits runs and errors. We should lobby that both baseball and science will be the unifying theory for humanity

to get along.

It's Thursday, April 18th.

Batter up.

It's Science Friday.

I'm Scifry producer Charles Burgquist. There's nothing like a spring or summer day at the ballpark.

The roar of the crowd, the crack of the bat, maybe some snacks and beverages.

But if you add science into the mix, that home game can mean so much more.

Here's baseball fan, Ira Flado.

I am a real baseball fanatic and I mean I love all the aspects of the sport the plays the players the

ballparks but what makes it even more exciting for me is understanding the

physics behind the runs hits and errors.

Trajectories velococities, baseball spin rates.

Baseball is filled with these details.

And my next guest is also a baseball fan,

both for the game itself and how the sport can be a gateway to science literacy.

Dr. Frederick Bertley is president and CEO of Kossi, the center of Science and Industry in Columbus, Ohio.

Welcome to Science Friday.

Ira, thank you so much for having me on here.

Now, I know that Baseball is now obsessed with physics though they don't call it that you know

one of the one of the immediate examples that comes to mind is trajectories and parabolas a ball is

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