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IN A FLASH: Honoring A Legendary Alumnus

Legendary baseball great and Kent State alumnus, Thurman Munson was honored with a statue and dedication ceremony at Kent State's Schoonover Stadium. 

Tags: Nationally Distinctive , Sports , Baseball , Kent State Athletics , Alumni

Pitching for Precision on the Mound and In the Lab

Richie Dell, a senior molecular biology major, has navigated the last three years as a Â鶹¹û¶³ Honors College student as well as a pitcher for the Kent State Men’s Baseball team. With extra coursework from Honors-level classes and playing a Division I sport, he always has to be in tip-…

Tags: Honors College , Baseball , Department of Athletics , Biology , Cellular and Molecular Biology , MAC

IN A FLASH: Eye on the Ball

Kent State baseball held walk-on tryouts for student players last week. 

Tags: Student Life , Department of Athletics , Baseball

Kent State Chemist Follows up on Baseball Core Study, Refuting MLB Findings.

In 1901, the 16 Major League Baseball teams produced 455 home runs. Players were discouraged from attempting it. Nearly 120 years later, players couldn’t seem to help themselves, and MLB smashed all previous records. More homers might mean more exciting games, but some people question why the spike happened. A Â鶹¹û¶³ chemist thinks he has some clues about this unusual surge in home runs.

Tags: Research & Science , Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry , College of Arts and Sciences , Division of Research and Sponsored Programs , Baseball

Kent State Chemists Reveal Changes in the Density and Chemical Composition of Major League Baseballs

Are the new Major League baseballs "juiced"? An article on FiveThirtyEight.com goes to bat on this controversial topic and has drawn interest from several other media outlets, including ESPN, USA Today and CBS Sports to name a few.  Commissioned by ESPN Sport Science, researchers i…

Tags: Chemistry & Biochemistry , Research , College of Arts and Sciences , Baseball