Math in Baseball
Baseball and statistics go hand in glove. In fact, many people have developed a passion for math because they spent the season boiling the Boys of Summer down into digits. Weekend Edition math guy Keith Devlin tells NPR's Scott Simon how important stats are to the national pastime.
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