Hey Kids - Baseball Statistics! (with No Math Skills Required!)
September 27th, 2007
Filed under: Comics
From Superman’s Girl Friend Lois Lane #106, here’s a relic of a bygone era: a slide-rule designed for the express purpose of calculating batting averages. And for only a dollar!
It seems to me that any source that listed a player’s at bats and hits would be likely to also list their batting average, but I guess you can always use it for Little League or church softball.
September 28th, 2007 at 10:35 am
Oh, if I had only been born with a dollar.
September 28th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
Yeah, more for little league in an era when nobody had calculators. Even now, most scorebooks include a page with a table of averages, set up like a multiplication table.
October 1st, 2007 at 2:17 pm
Actually, if you look closely, it calculates WORLD SERIES batting averages - for YOURSELF (or your favorite player.)
Evidently, the target audience must have been actual major league ballplayers on pennant-winning teams! Didn’t realize so many of the New York Yankees were also Lois Lane readers!
November 22nd, 2007 at 2:15 am
I have one of these.
The packaging is different though, it has Red Sox branding. It has copyright 1970, so I figure it was made around then. Unopened in its original packaging. Anyone think it might be worth more than a dollar?
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