Photos: The science behind baseball

Paul Doherty, baseball enthusiast and scientist at The Exploratorium science museum in San Francisco, demonstrates the science behind success and failure when swinging a bat. A deviation of just a few inches one way or another can mean the difference between a home run, a blooper, and a broken bat.

(News.com's Daniel Terdiman wrote about some of the demonstrations at the Exploratorium. You can read his story here.)

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