Home Plate

Author

Eric W. Weisstein
August 31, 2012

This notebook downloaded from http://mathworld.wolfram.com/notebooks/Games/HomePlate.nb.

For more information, see Eric's MathWorld entry http://mathworld.wolfram.com/HomePlate.html.

©2012 Wolfram Research, Inc. except for portions noted otherwise

Definition

MLB

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/downloads/y2011/Official_Baseball_Rules.pdf, p. 2

1.05 Home base shall be marked by a five-sided slab of whitened rubber. It shall be a 17-inch square with two of the corners removed so that one edge is 17 inches long, two adjacent sides are 81⁄2 inches and the remaining two sides are 12 inches and set at an angle to make a point. It shall be set in the ground with the point at the intersection of the lines extending from home base to first base and to third base; with the 17-inch edge facing the pitcher’s plate, and the two 12-inch edges coinciding with the first and third base lines. The top edges of home base shall be beveled and the base shall be fixed in the ground level with the ground surface. (See drawing D in Diagram 2.)

Computation

Sqrt[2(8+1/2)^2]

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