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Wednesday, June 30, 2004
Baseball and orienteering
Last week Mary and I went to a baseball game and, since my mind seems to always wander from whatever I'm doing to orienteering, I started wondering -- what is a way that orienteering and baseball are alike?
It'd be a lot easier to come up with differences. Orienteering is an endurance sport with lots of thin athletes. Baseball is a skill sport with lots of overweight players. But, thinking of ways the two sports would be alike was a bigger challenge.
While I was watching the game, I was keeping score, tracking the game pitch-by-pitch. Keeping score reminded me of a similarity.
Both sports are continuous, but can easily be split up in to small segments. In orienteering you run a course made up of lots of legs. We often keep split times and compare how we did on legs. We divide the race up in to little bits. Baseball is the same. You can divide the game in to nine innings, or 27 outs, or a bunch of at-bats, or even each pitch.
posted by Michael |
8:55 PM
