The Game of Baseball
This city is one of many where it is claimed baseball was invented and is now where the Hall of Fame is located
Cooperstown
The single most deaths from a terrorist attack on US soil (2001)
September 11
One definition is "a state in which matter is composed of tightly packed particles & has definite shape & volume"
Solid
Mathematicians have used calculus to prove that this ratio is less than 22/7, its common approximation
Pi
New Jersey Devils: #30
Martin Brodeur
In 2012, MLB added another one of these, expanding the playoffs
Wild Card Team
This was the last normal weekday prior to the COVID-19 pandemic (2020)
March 13
The motion of tectonic plates sliding past each other is known as this, like clipping a sheep
Shearing
The process of differentiation lets you find the slope of one of these lines that touches a curve at just one point
Tangent
Cleveland Browns: #32
Jim Brown
In the early 20th century, the lack of scoring earned baseball this nickname
Dead-Ball Era
The allies stormed the beaches at Normandy (1944)
June 6
An aphelion is the point in an orbit when an object is farthest from this
Sun
You need calc. to take this earth measurement because it isn't a perfect sphere; if it were, you'd use (4/3) pi r3
Volume
Phoenix Suns: #13
Steve Nash
Not referring to a basketball team, Alexander Cartwright's rules for this club were some of the earliest for modern baseball
Knickerbocker
The surprise military strike of Pearl Harbor (1941)
December 7
It functions as a junction with the help of neurotransmitters
Synapse
Often symbolized L, it's the value approached by a function as its variable approaches a given value
Limit
Tampa Bay Lightning: #4
Vincent Lecavalier
Baseball was was known as this in North America, it now is a term related to baserunning
Rounders
An anti-imperialist, cultural, and political movement which grew out of student protests in Beijing (1919)
May 4
Also meaning a mark of disgrace, in botany, it's the part of a flower where pollination occurs
Stigma
This 17th c. Frenchman contributed to the development of calc. when he used algebra to describe curves
Rene Descartes
Atlanta Braves: #35
Phil Neikro