Hawing was super enough to actually track down the quote I was mentioning earlier, so here it is; "A baseball is a sphere with a diameter of 2 7/8 inches. The batter stands at home plate and grips a tapering wood cylinder that has a maximum diameter of 2 3/4 inches; he tries to defend a strike zone that is approximately seven baseballs wide and eleven high. The pitcher, from 60 1/2 feet away, throws the ball at a speed of about 90 miles per hour. As it spins toward the plate - hopping, sinking, or curving - the hitter has four-tenths of one second to decide whether he should let it pass by, jump away to avoid being maimed, or swing. To get "good wood" on it, he must connect squarely with a 3/4-inch portion of the ball's round surface - and then hope that none of the nine defensive players catches it." I don't know, that's always stuck with me. I read it to my wife and she said, "That makes you like baseball?" Anyway, thank you so much to hawing for doing that, that's really amazing. I've looked for that again for years. Thank you hawing!