Astral: (Theosophy) Consisting of, belonging to, or designating, a kind of supersensible substance alleged to be next above the tangible world in refinement; as, astral spirits; astral bodies of persons; astral current.
Delay of Game: It Happens Every Spring
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In spring, young men’s fancies turn elsewhere, some say to what the young girls have been thinking about all winter, but of course the correct answer is another field in the humanities science division in the entertainment bracket. Obviously, this could only refer to America’s national pastime: baseball!
As usual, one would never know it from watching the Mariners play, but it’s the science of the game that makes the humanities aspect stand out. For example, someone has sent me this simple explanation of the game:
Baseball: This is a game played by two teams, one out the other in. The one that's in, sends players out one at a time, to see if they can get in before they get out. If they get out before they get in, they come in, but it doesn't count. If they get in before they get out, it does count.
When the ones out get three outs from the ones in before they get in without being out, the team that's out comes in and the team in goes out to get those going in out before they get in without being out.
When both teams have been in and out nine times the game is over. The team with the most in without being out before coming in wins unless the ones in are equal. In which case, the last ones in go out to get the ones in out before they get in without being out.
The game will end when each team has the same number of ins out but one team has more in without being out before coming in.
If this seems overly “scientific” I would recommend the film version of this marriage of humanities and science, It Happens Every Spring, a 1949 classic in black and white starring Ray Milland as the college chemistry professor who gets distracted during baseball season every spring, complicated by a desire to marry the dean’s daughter (Jean Peters). When a baseball crashes into his laboratory, mixing the chemicals into a solution that repels wood, perhaps he can get enough money together to wed. Thus, he “moonlights” over the summer as a pitcher (for the local major league baseball team) who “doctors” the ball.
During these rainy days of a typical June in Puget Sound, find a copy and then get together some peanuts, popcorn, cracker jacks, a hot dog or two and maybe some garlic fries and enjoy!
Astral Facts is a monthly presentation of Humanities Science, produced in the bowels of the Humanities Science offices in the HS (Humanities/Science) Building.
Walter Lowe
English Faculty
Green River Community College
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In spring, young men’s fancies turn elsewhere, some say to what the young girls have been thinking about all winter, but of course the correct answer is another field in the humanities science division in the entertainment bracket. Obviously, this could only refer to America’s national pastime: baseball!
As usual, one would never know it from watching the Mariners play, but it’s the science of the game that makes the humanities aspect stand out. For example, someone has sent me this simple explanation of the game:
Baseball: This is a game played by two teams, one out the other in. The one that's in, sends players out one at a time, to see if they can get in before they get out. If they get out before they get in, they come in, but it doesn't count. If they get in before they get out, it does count.
When the ones out get three outs from the ones in before they get in without being out, the team that's out comes in and the team in goes out to get those going in out before they get in without being out.
When both teams have been in and out nine times the game is over. The team with the most in without being out before coming in wins unless the ones in are equal. In which case, the last ones in go out to get the ones in out before they get in without being out.
The game will end when each team has the same number of ins out but one team has more in without being out before coming in.
If this seems overly “scientific” I would recommend the film version of this marriage of humanities and science, It Happens Every Spring, a 1949 classic in black and white starring Ray Milland as the college chemistry professor who gets distracted during baseball season every spring, complicated by a desire to marry the dean’s daughter (Jean Peters). When a baseball crashes into his laboratory, mixing the chemicals into a solution that repels wood, perhaps he can get enough money together to wed. Thus, he “moonlights” over the summer as a pitcher (for the local major league baseball team) who “doctors” the ball.
During these rainy days of a typical June in Puget Sound, find a copy and then get together some peanuts, popcorn, cracker jacks, a hot dog or two and maybe some garlic fries and enjoy!
Astral Facts is a monthly presentation of Humanities Science, produced in the bowels of the Humanities Science offices in the HS (Humanities/Science) Building.
Walter Lowe
English Faculty
Green River Community College
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