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Effectively Wild Episode 1978: Sam’s Back, on Substack

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

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The Past Blast

Baseball is truly a numbers game in 1978 two nashville teachers tried to use baseball as a way to boost student interest in mathematics. The instructional board game is played by answering a variety of simple math problems which depending on their difficulty translate into hits ranging from a single to a home run hall of famer monty ervin was a proponent of the game working with its creators and the st regis paper company to bring the game to market. find it all in the show notes and we look forward to following this thing with you over the next couple weeks.

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