why is the home plate in baseball a pentagon when all others are squares?
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Because it is shaped like a house?
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there are 3 bases and 1 home run... i overheard my brother giving a lecture to my younger brother... anyways 1st base is making up. 2nd base is groping. 3rd base is sorta doing it but not all the way.. like groping that area and blowing. and finally a home run is going ALL THE WAY>. hope that this helped.
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Good question.  My UNFOUNDED GUESS is that as the game started, more players (like the rest of the population) were right-handed.  If you bat right-handed, running counter-clockwise means you don't have to turn around when leaving the batter's box.  So running in that direction was just easier for most batters.\n\nThat's all I can think of...I'm curious to know the real explanation.
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I'm going to focus on the usual non-euclidean geometry due to Lobachevsky. In that geometry, there are infinitely many lines parallel to a given line and through a given point. Squares (i.e. figures with 4 equal sides and 4 equal angles) don't have right angles. There is a pentagon with all right angles. The area of a triangle can be determined by the sum of the angles in the triangle (it is proportional to the difference of 180 degrees and the sum of the angles). There is a 'natural' unit of distance obtained from angles between parallel lines and perpendicular lines.
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They change balls really often.  It's because they're worried about the ball being scuffed or damaged during the game.  The ump wants to ensure that the game isn't swayed in favor of either team.
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No way, it just seems wrong. Its bad enough to get one base for a pitch that grazes a uniform, or a guy walking because he stands at the plate with his knees touching his chest. Too much cheap crap in sports today, lets not make it any easier, especially in baseball, the pitching "talent pool" is in sad shape as it is, dont make it any harder for them.
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why is this question under baseball?
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The "pointed" end is the beginning of the foul lines down both sides of the field--thus, if a batted ball should bounce off the plate directly forward, it is a fair ball.  \nThe opposite end is left flat to present the largest, most visible target for the pitcher and umpire.
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With a pentagon you can draw a nice little home, a pentagon is five sided figure.\n\nWith a rectangle you can draw a garden or field.
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I didn't, but I do now, courtesy of Skip McAfee, editor of the upcoming new edition of the definitive "Dickson Baseball Dictionary." It turns out that, in earliest days, home was actually a circular object, often a dish, which, naturally enough, led to it being called "home plate." Home went through various permutations in subsequent years -- a circular iron plate in 1845; a 12-inch square in 1869 with one point toward the pitcher; a square marble slab in 1872; a white rubber square in 1885 that reduced injuries to runners. The five-sided home plate we know today was adopted in 1900, as McAfree points out, "to provide umpires with a better view to call balls and strikes and to provide pitchers with a larger target at which to aim. The five sides eliminated two corners and made the sides parallel."
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Triangle, quadrilateral, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, nonagon, decagon
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the white part are hexagons and the black parts are pentagons
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It's based on scoring shorthand ... before we ubergeeks sat at laptops ... people would get a scorecard and actually have a shorthand system that they could follow every pitch of every game.\n\nYou're right one is the pitcher ... two is then the catcher ... three is first base ... and so on across the position players. From your short hand, 4-6-3 would be a ball hit directly to the second baseman who threw it to the shortstop covering second and then the shortstop threw it over to the first baseman for a double play.  \n\nI attached a link to a website that tells you how to actually score a game. If you want to watch every moment and see the game unfold, this is one of the best ways to do it.
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One side of the baseball has the commissioner of baseball's imprinted signature.  A. Bartlett Giomatti was the comissioner of the National League from 1986- April 1989.  I was probably in that time period
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what the heck does this have to do with baseball?
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I always found this one interesting:\n\nYou may have heard of the Ancient Greek society called the Pythagoreans (they were followers of Pythagorus - hence the Pythagorean Theorem).  Anyway, rumor says that they used the pentagon as their symbol whenever they wanted to correspond with each other via a letter.  Why did they do this?  Because it is VERY hard to draw a regular pentagon freehand.  Go ahead, try it, I would bet that it looks pretty funny when you're done.\n\nAnyway, they had a secret to drawing it that they only shared with others in the group:  They would take 5 triangles (probably equilateral - but isosceles would work also) and assemble them into the top of a pyramid-like figure.  When you look at the bottom of this figure, it makes a pentagon - and a regular one.  YOu can then trace around the outside edge of this pentagon, take apart your pyramid-like thingie, and you have your seal which others can't re-create.\n\nAnyway, that's the rumor about it... I think it's pretty cool...
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Most NL clubs have the home dugouts on the 3rd base side, in the AL, first base side., which works out well in the All-Star game. There are no hard and fast rules.