Assume that the foul lines extend far enough to circle the globe.
Assume that the foul lines extend far enough to circle the globe.
Coachb wrote:
Assume that the foul lines extend far enough to circle the globe.
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If there were no home run fence, and the foul lines went all the way around the world. I feel like this would take calculus to answer.
What a fight.
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3/4ths of the globe
Does it have to have a semi circle in mid field that can't overlap with where home plate would be?
Do the lines keep going around and around? I feel like the answer has to be 100% in that case.
OK, so I'm thinking you mean one time around, until a line between the ends of the foul lines crosses home plate. I'll have to think about that one...
1/4
Are the two foul lines 90 degrees apart?
Depends where home plate is.
It depends on how you you define a straight line on a curved surface, I think. If you do it as a projection onto the curved surface then I agree 1/4 seems right, because on the opposite side of the world the lines cross at a second "home plate."
A globe wrote:
1/4
1/4 of the world may be fair territory but most balls hit hard enough to go around the world will end up in orbit and eventually cross one of the foul lines and be called out anway. Even if you hit it right down midfield.. So it's really a moot issue.
More important to stick to the infield. If you hit it only 300 kilometers or so the fielders will never get it. In the park homer.