Baseball Science Fair Projects

Our greatest past time can be used as a tool for learning about science.

It is one of America’s favorite hobbies, sports, and pastimes. Furthermore, it is a culture, a way of life, and provides a living for many Americans today. Baseball is a sport that is fun to play with friends, compete with other teams, watch your favorite professionals, and even has the potential to be educational! However, how can baseball be incorporated into a science fair project? That is quite easy. Baseball is able to collaborate with science on multiple aspects, and furthermore is a fun way to learn some interesting stuff about gravity, angles, and physics

The “Biomechanics of Pitching”, is a cool and interesting science project one can do to complete their science fair project, and at the same time develop their pitching arm quite well. All the materials you need are a baseball and a target. The whole experiment is basically playing as a pitcher, but using different strides, positions, and levels to throw the ball. By starting how you would normally throw a pitch, see how close you get to the target, or if you can hit the target. Document results and accuracy and then try to only take 1 step as a method of striding, and pitch the ball. Repeat the steps and document the results once more and the final step is to see how you do with no stride, or standing still while attempting to pitch. Document each of the following cases, and then compare and contrast your results. Explain what forces worked for you or against you, and why some pitching methods were more accurate than others.