On Baseball - Part 1

As the grapefruit baseball season approaches, I am trying to decide which team will be my favorite this year. It is so difficult to pick a horse, so to speak, without knowing how the team's won-loss records are going to look at the end of the campaign. So I think I'll defer that choice for now.

But, regarding baseball I do have this observation to share:

• When a person says, of a baseball player who has not had any of his at-bats end in outs or in reaching base on a fielder's choice or error, that such a player is "batting a thousand," that is just simply an incorrect statement. The player has a batting average of 1.000. That is ONE, not "a thousand."

Given this alarming bit of mis-information, it is no wonder kids these days are having so much trouble with numbers.

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