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It's baseball season short waivers.

As a kid, I loved the sound of the ball hitting the bat at the San Diego Padres I thought I could actually hear it when it was going

to be a good hit and someone would be getting on base. I was also fascinated by curve balls,

like how did the pitchers get those things to curve like that?

And I had heard that there were stadiums that were easier to get home runs in.

Frederick Bertley was also fascinated by baseball as a kid, and he also loved science and math,

and he would go on to get his PhD in immunology. also loved

his PhD in immunology. But when he was a kid he loved rooting for his local

pro-baseball team the Montreal Expos, which have since relocated to

Washington DC as the Nationals.

And he was inspired to try his hand at it too.

And I'm embarrassed to say this on National Public Radio.

I was terrible.

I couldn't hit the ball. Needless to say he's not a pro baseball player now, but he is the

CEO and president of the center of science and industry or Cossi, a science museum in Columbus, Ohio.

And he loves spreading the wonder of science, especially when it intersects with sports.

Did you know hockey players and figure skaters are literally gliding on a thin layer of water?

A combination of pressure the blade puts on the ice and heat from friction of the blade going

over the surface.

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