Baseball Is Life Students Get ‘Think’ Sign
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution - October 16, 2005
Submerged somewhere beneath the snarl of superstars, salaries, sabermetrics and steroids, baseball is still what baseball has always been: nine guys vs. nine guys, nice landscaping, pleasant weather, lukewarm beer.
And, says a neuroscientist and psychologist at Emory University, baseball is a useful metaphor for life. In her freshman seminar Psych 190: Science and Myth of Baseball, Hillary Rodman takes a kind of intellectual batting practice with 14 students, helping them seek answers to such questions as:
> Is a clubhouse leader worth a .212 batting average?
> Why is making $30 million so important to a player who “just loves the game”? more … more…
