Euclidian Baseball

Euclidian Baseball Euclidian Baseball™ is a challenging field sport combining speed, mathematical prowess, and team c We are very new.

“Why stay at home solving problems in analytic geometry on paper when you can run around in the sun with baseballs and bits of string to do much the same thing competitively on a far more massive scale?”

Good question. Euclidian Baseball™ is a field sport played on fields of arbitrarily large size, with typically two to four teams trying to execute geometrical constructions combining speed of con

struction, accuracy, and minimal use of vertices (baseballs to mark each point used in a construction). The core of the game rules are to adhere to classical construction rules of the Hellenistic era, under Euclid and his contemporaries. While algebraic solutions are considerably more powerful than these ancient construction techniques dating back at least 2,300 years, a certain amount of conceptual beauty has been lost to the dominance of algebra. Which is not to say we’re against algebra; turn it into a zany field sport and we’ll love it all the more. More than anything else, we are a not-for-profit group using this sport, which we hope to play in one league in Prescott, Arizona over the summer and fall of 2017, and to promote other teams and leagues to form, making this game a staple of the geekier among us willing to try something a bit weird and fun. To be clear — we don’t plan to make a penny from this endeavor; it’s more about promoting STEM education which is sorely needed in many places, including here in Prescott, Arizona. That said, our sanctioned leagues may charge membership dues to recoup their printing, equipment, advertising or other costs. The league founded here in Prescott will likely charge each team a membership fee of $2 to $3 per player over the course of the 2017 season to recoup those costs. Teams can consist of players of any age, with two to twenty-six players maximum per team (as in American baseball, only nine players may be on the field during any inning, but can switch in and out with roster changes made during the game by team captains). Now that our social media presence has been largely set (please see all the contact info we have… updated periodically), our focus now is to deliver a series of videos describing the game, perhaps a few innings recorded to show you what it’s all about. We’re working on the formal rules of the game, but that may take until the end of June for a formal document to be release (a PDF file which can be freely copied for any non-commercial use; especially for educational, recreational, or personal purposes). We’re sorry to disappoint if you are a baseball fan who accidentally stumbled into our geeky world. Although twenty-six baseballs are available to teams to mark the vertices of their geometrical constructions, we don’t hit them with bats and would rarely throw them as a disadvantage would occur if they were to be accidentally dropped. We do have the concept of hits and runs though, as will be described in future videos being prepared, and also the notion of “par” borrowed from golf to describe the number of baseballs (vertices) that most people would use to solve a puzzle. So please Like our page, spread the word, and feel free to join the Prescott League group on Facebook as no doubt this will be where the first games will occur (unless of course this game becomes hugely popular elsewhere). We’re working on preparing videos, rules, and press releases to spread the word…


EUCLIDIAN BASEBALL™ MAIN PAGE (and presences)

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EuclidianBaseball/
Facebook:
Twitter: ,
YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC43GM_vYgEyF5eLt5W1K2fw

E-mail (main): [email protected]
E-mail (alt): [email protected]
Office: (928) 458-5809 [24x7, no TXTs]
…typically messaging us on Facebook or calling us directly will be responded to first; typically within 24 hours. We may not spot e-mails or Tweets for several days, but will eventually be able to reply. PRESCOTT EUCLIDIAN BASEBALL™ LEAGUE (and presences)
…based in Prescott, Arizona, USA

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/PrescottEuclidianBaseball/
Facebook:

E-mail (admin): [email protected]
E-mail (group; no spam!): [email protected]
Office: (928) 458-5809 [24x7, no TXTs]
…similarly, Facebook messages and direct phone calls will likely be responded to far quicker than e-mails. COPYRIGHT NOTICE:
Please note that all of our text, images, video, and file downloads are subject to copyright. However, as a general rule if your usage of our materials are not commercial in nature, especially for educational, recreational, or personal use, then we don’t mind them being shared as long as our copyright notices are left intact. Please contact us if you have any need for commercial or institutional licensing requests regarding any of our publications and online content.

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“Blind Man” Bert Sierra, June 15, 2017
inventor of Euclidian Baseball™
founder of the Prescott, Arizona league

07/18/2017

EUCLIDIAN CONSTRUCTION W/MAX – 9/11/2014 [v1]

My eight-year-old tutee Max and I receive a box full of drafting tools, and I immediately started teaching him how to use classical construction techniques (also known as Euclidian Construction) to make a 30°-60°-90° triangle first, and then to draft a pentagon.

In Classical Construction, you are limited to just using a compass and straight edge (plus markers like pencils and such). You quickly learn a “playbook” of sorts in which you learn to bisect lines, find perpendicular bisectors, bisect angles, build various triangles, polygons, circles and relationships and objects, scaling lengths by rational numbers and square roots, and so on.

One place to visit to develop such a playbook quickly is the Constructions page on OpenMathRef dot com.[1]

[1] http://mathopenref.com/tocs/constructionstoc.html

As an adjunct to these construction methods, to get a grounded sense of why these ancient techniques work and are so powerful, you might want to read at least the first six books of Euclid’s “Elements”, written circa 400 B.C. If you wish to purchase a printed copy, I highly recommend the Green Lion Press edition linked to below, which uses the acclaimed Heath translation of the original Greek texts on papyrus, and little scholarly analysis.[2] Or if you want a more scholarly analysis, the Dover edition which also makes use of the Heath translation is a good additional three-volume set to invest in.[3,4,5] Or if you are on a budget, you’ll also find an excellent free version on Project Gutenberg, and I recommend using the PDF version as the HTML version doesn’t always place the geometric figures at useful locations on the screen.[6]

Green Lion Press edition of Euclid’s “Elements” on Amazon (one volume of Books I-XIII):
[2] https://www.amazon.com/Euclids-Elements-Euclid/dp/1888009195/

Dover Press edition of Euclid’s “Elements” on Amazon (three volume set of Books I-XIII):
[3] https://www.amazon.com/Thirteen-Books-Elements-Vol-1-2/dp/0486600882/
[4] https://www.amazon.com/Thirteen-Books-Elements-Vol-3-9/dp/0486600890/
[5] https://www.amazon.com/Euclid-Thirteen-Books-Elements-10-13/dp/0486600904/

Euclid’s “Elements”, Books I-XI, on Project Gutenberg, translated by John Casey:
[6] http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21076

Note that this “v1” video is incomplete. Future expansions of this video will show how to construct the same 30°-60°-90° triangle and pentagon inscribed within a circle of a given radius or diameter. And an even more future version will talk about how all of these constructions would be “scored” as to obtain the best score you want to eliminate any unneeded vertices and also produce an accurate construction in minimal time.

But for getting your feet wet about classical construction, this video between Max and I is a great place to start.

VIDEO AVAILABLE AT

YouTube (1080p):
https://youtu.be/9ngkjc-x61Y

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/EuclidianBaseball/videos/489680911365391/

EUCLIDIAN BASEBALL RESOURCES
Facebook: [https://www.facebook.com/EuclidianBaseball/]
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC43GM_vYgEyF5eLt5W1K2fw
Twitter:

PUBLIC DOMAIN NOTICE
This video is in the public domain, and can be used, shared, reshared, and edited for any purposes whatsoever. Please note that the Euclidian Baseball™ logo and its variants are trademarks and copyrighted artwork. No use of those logos is permitted without proper clearances obtained.

TECHNICAL INFORMATION
This video was recorded in 2014 by Max Ikner on an iPad Air. The video was then transferred to an iMac i7. The audio tracks were run through Levelator 2.0 to optimize the dynamic range of the recording, then recombined with the video and edited using iMovie 10.1.6 under macOS Sierra 10.12.5.

EB is officially on Twitter and YouTube now…When we set up our Facebook presences a couple of days ago, we didn’t take i...
06/16/2017

EB is officially on Twitter and YouTube now…

When we set up our Facebook presences a couple of days ago, we didn’t take into account the fact that the hashtag on Facebook is longer than the 15-character limit allowed on Twitter.

Imagine our surprise when we tried to reserve as a 14-character alternative — there already is such a thing!! But it’s the “Panthers” baseball team at Euclid High School which we think is in Ohio, so it’s okay.

We’re officially on Twitter now (yay — 15 characters exactly!!) and when we get a bit further along into the letter/e-mail writing campaign to commence next week, we’ll invite the Panthers into the fray to see if they’d like to join the Euclidian Baseball Universe!

Euclidian Baseball™ logo [version 4]BACKGROUNDThe official Euclidian Baseball™ logo is derived from the very first propo...
06/16/2017

Euclidian Baseball™ logo [version 4]

BACKGROUND
The official Euclidian Baseball™ logo is derived from the very first proposition put forth in Euclid’s “Elements” [Book I, prop. i, p. 8 in the Project Gutenberg text below.] Creating equilateral triangles from a line segment, creating 60° angles and bisecting them into 30° or 15° angles, finding the bisector to the line segment and its perpendicular bisector all derive from this proposition, and can be quickly constructed using classical straight edge and compass construction rules.



COPYRIGHT NOTICE

Copyright © 2017 “Blind Man” Bert Sierra / The Kanamit Collective

This image may be used for non-commercial purposes; especially for personal, recreational or educational use. Please do not make unauthorized use of this logo when referencing Euclidian Baseball™, the game, its leagues, or any teams who play Euclidian Baseball™ on websites, social media, or any publications. We will encourage its use to promote sanctioned teams and leagues. All other rights are reserved.

06/15/2017

PLEASE NOTE…

This is the main page for the field game, Euclidian Baseball™. As our long description states, the game requires a mix of mathematical knowledge, critical thinking, and significant proficiency with the “classical construction” techniques of ancient geometers such as Euclid of Alexandria, Pythagors, and others. For field play, bits of string are used to serve as an equivalent to compass and straight edge drafting tools used in Euclidean Construction.

What we hope will happen is that as knowledge and interest in this game grows, a number of local leagues will sprout up and produce their own social media presence (we can asssist in setting up a Group or Page for you if you’re not certain how that is done). Individual teams might set up their own groups or pages.

To kick things off here in Prescott, Arizona, we‘ve set up the group for the league, and contact for that group is below. Furthermore, if you have interest in the game, we recommend liking the main page as well as joining the league group. You don’t need to be a resident of Prescott or located anywhere near Arizona for that matter. The league group will focus more on the roll out of the game to Prescott, Arizona over the summer and fall of 2017, and we hope to return each summer and fall as we become more established. [The game can be played on ANY field of sufficient size; it doesn’t need to be played on a baseball field, though most likely that’s where the games in Prescott may end up if all goes well.]

We hope that interest sparks up quickly, as we think it will, as more people come to appreciate this nutty, though thoroughly mathematical and challenging game.

CONTACT INFO FOR EUCLIDIAN BASEBALL™ MAIN PAGE:


• Use Message button for fastest responses, though the admin e-mail and phone information is below:
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• (928) 458-5809 [24x7, no TXTs, slowest response]

CONTACT INFO FOR PRESCOTT EB™ LEAGUE:


• Use Message button for fastest responses.
• E-mail group members (no spamming us!): [email protected]
• E-mail group admins:
[email protected]

HOW DID THIS SILLY GAME TO BE?
• The birthdate of this game is very new, Monday June 12th, 2017.
• The birthplace was in Prescott, Arizona at the home of the founder, and then in taking the idea around to a few venues downtown for discussion and comment.
• The inventor’s name is “Blind Man” Bert Sierra​, and yes: I’ll fess up to being one of the biggest geeks you’d ever meet.

COPYRIGHT MATTERS & FEES
• The goal of the EB™ page and Prescott’s league group is to promote STEM research as far and as wide as possible, and to promote this ridiculous game.
• Although the main page will never charge for the materials disseminated, they are copyrighted materials. If you plan to use them for non-commercial purposes, especially for educational or personal use, you can download, use, and even distribute any of the materials for free, provided you leave the copyright notices intact and unaltered.
• Leagues may set membership fees for teams to recoup equipment, printing, and minor advertising costs. Tentatively, I believe that for the summer/fall season here in Prescott, if we charge simply $1 for each team member on a team’s roster, that’ll raise enough that our printing costs will be cover, and Bert will shell out for the cost of the 26 baseballs and Sharpie™ pens (to mark the baseballs that we’ll need).
• We will be outreaching to a number of companies and businesses for donation of things like 100’ and 25’ tape measures, string, etc., to become “official” sponsors of the Prescott-based league.

’Nuff said…

“Blind Man” Bert Sierra
June 15, 2017
Prescott, Arizona, United States

Euclidian Baseball™ is a challenging field sport combining speed, mathematical prowess, and team c

Euclidian Baseball™ logo [version 3]BACKGROUNDThe official Euclidian Baseball™ logo is derived from the very first propo...
06/15/2017

Euclidian Baseball™ logo [version 3]

BACKGROUND
The official Euclidian Baseball™ logo is derived from the very first proposition put forth in Euclid’s “Elements” [Book I, prop. i, p. 8 in the Project Gutenberg text below.] Creating equilateral triangles from a line segment, creating 60° angles and bisecting them into 30° or 15° angles, finding the bisector to the line segment and its perpendicular bisector all derive from this proposition, and can be quickly constructed using classical straight edge and compass construction rules.



COPYRIGHT NOTICE

Copyright © 2017 “Blind Man” Bert Sierra / The Kanamit Collective

This image may be used for non-commercial purposes; especially for personal, recreational or educational use. Please do not make unauthorized use of this logo when referencing Euclidian Baseball™, the game, its leagues, or any teams who play Euclidian Baseball™ on websites, social media, or any publications. We will encourage its use to promote sanctioned teams and leagues. All other rights are reserved.

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