Gary O'Lite: Today it's all about the home run. The physics of the bat, the ball, the brain and letting fly with the science will be Alan Nathan from the University of Illinois. Go to Rome, find a guy who was jogging, whack him with a bat. That's called a Rome run. What do you get? Well, we'll find out today.
Gary O’Reilly and Chuck Nice learn why it’s so hard to hit one out of the park, Guests: Geoff Blum, the Chicago White Sox legend and announcer for the Houston Astros, and Alan M. Nathan, Professor Emeritus of Physics.
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