Humidity in baseball

4/17/2017

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The Washington Post (April 17) – If you’re still skeptical humidity can truly change the outcome of a baseball game, you should crunch the numbers. Using a “cheating in baseball” study from researchers at Illinois--led by Physics Professor Emeritus Alan Nathan, a blog calculated how more-humid baseballs would affect the home run figure at Chase Field, used by the Arizona Diamondbacks.


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This story was published April 17, 2017.