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Old Thu Apr 26, 2012, 12:35am
Crabby_Bob Crabby_Bob is offline
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Originally Posted by mbcrowder View Post
Yes, but not a lot of people realize the bases do not actually form the inside corners of a perfect square - 3 bases do, but 2nd base doesn't. If it did, you're answer would be wrong.

98 feet, 11 and 15.0304 sixteenths inches.
Actually, no. The Pythagorean Theorem is all you need to answer the OP.

Here's a fun thing. This is also the distance between the outside far corners of 1st and 3rd base. If this distance is short (long), the distance from the point of home plate to the center of second base will be long (short) by the same amount. If it's not, you have other problems such as not placing the bases as noted by mbcrowder.
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