#ICYMI - Juiced Balls, Broken Bats & Record Breakers, with Shawn Green

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#ICYMI - Juiced Balls, Broken Bats & Record Breakers, with Shawn Green

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Oct 18, 2018

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In case you missed this episode on the Playing with Science channel… Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly explore the science of baseball with physicist Alan Nathan, James Sherwood, Director at the Baseball Research Center, and baseball great Shawn Green.

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