CRUSHED Bonus: The Sticky Solution
Is MLB’s latest crackdown on ball doctoring going after the right culprit?
ROS Presents: Counterattack · Religion of Sports | PRX
July 13, 202115m 48sbonus
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Show Notes
More than 100 years after banning pitchers from using foreign substances on balls, MLB is finally enforcing that rule in an effort to resurrect lagging offense. But is the league cracking down on the right culprit? In this bonus mini-episode, Joan explores the physics of ball doctoring and asks what baseball’s current scandal can tell us about the evolution of the game.