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THE BASEBALL MYSTERIES CHALLENGING PUZZLES FOR LOGICAL DETECTIVES

By Jerry Butters, Jim Henle Copyright 2023

   
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The Baseball Mysteries: Challenging Puzzles for Logical Detectives is a book of
baseball puzzles, logical baseball puzzles. To jump in, all you need is logic
and a casual fan’s knowledge of the game. The puzzles are solved by reasoning
from the rules of the game and a few facts.

The logic in the puzzles is like legal reasoning. A solution must argue from
evidence (the facts) and law (the rules). Unlike legal arguments, however, a
solution must reach an unassailable conclusion.

There are many puzzle books. But there’s nothing remotely like this book. The
puzzles here, while rigorously deductive, are firmly attached to actual events,
to struggles that are reported in the papers every day.

The puzzles offer a unique and scintillating connection between abstract logic
and gritty reality.

Actually, this book offers the reader an unlimited number of puzzles. Once
you’ve solved a few of the challenges here, every boxscore you see in the papers
or online is a new puzzle! It can be anywhere from simple, to complex, to
impossible.

 * For anyone who enjoys logical puzzles
 * For anyone interested in legal reasoning
 * For anyone who loves the game of baseball. 

Jerry Butters has a BA in mathematics from Oberlin College, and an MS in
mathematics and a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago. He taught
mathematics for two years at Mindanao State University in the Philippines as a
Peace Corps volunteer. He taught economics for five years at Princeton
University. For most of his career, he worked on consumer protection cases and
policy issues at the Federal Trade Commission. In his retirement, he has become
a piano teacher and performer. He enjoys hobbies ranging from reading Chinese to
practicing Taiji. This book is an outgrowth of another of his hobbies - his love
of designing and solving puzzles of all sorts.

Jim Henle has a BA in mathematics from Dartmouth College and a PhD from M.I.T.
He taught for two years at U. P. Baguio in the Philippines as a Peace Corps
volunteer, two years at a middle school as alternative service, and 42 years at
Smith College. His research is primarily in logic and set theory, with
additional papers in geometry, graph theory, number theory, games, economics,
and music. He edited columns for The Mathematical Intelligencer. He authored or
co-authored five books. His most recent book, The Proof and the Pudding,
compares mathematics and gastronomy. He has collaborated with Jerry on puzzle
papers and chamber music concerts.






TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. The Game Begins. 1.1. In Plain Sight. 1.2. Working Backwards. 1.3. A
Walk-Off. 1.4. An Imperfect Game. 1.5. The Five-Run Inning. 1.6. Casey At the
Bat. 2. Historical Mysteries. 2.1. Substitutions. 2.2. Crazy Things Happen. 2.3.
The Game-Winning RBI. 2.4 Number 299. 2.5. Number 400. 2.6. Who Scored When.
2.7. Earning and Unearning. 3. Steady Games. 3.1. A Steady Game. 3.2. Another
Steady Game. 3.3. A Steady Double. 3.4. Cicioneddos. 3.5. Maltagliatti. 3.6.
Lucca. 4. Secrets of the Past. 4.1. Ancient Rivalry. 4.2. Double Switches. 4.3.
Switch Central. 4.4. A World Series Game. 4.5. The Other Side of The World. 4.6.
Leary’s Bad Day. 5. Puzzles as Art. 5.1. Never Out, Never In. 5.2. Double Plays.
5.3. Mistakes Were Made. 5.4. The Two Rods. 5.5. The Guy Who Did It All. 5.6.
Scraps. 6. Baseball Archaelogy. 6.1. At the Dawn of Time. 6.2. Later that Day.
6.3. Ancient History. 6.4. Baseball at War. 6.5. Twins Fall Short in Slugfest.
6.6. In Scoring Position. 7. More Puzzling Art. 7.1. Just Totals. 7.2 Two Guys.
7.3. Smedley. 7.4. Everybody Scores a Run. 7.5. Castro Homers in the First. 7.6.
Brown Homers in the First. 7.7. Leftovers. 8. Missing Information. 8.1. Four
Players Missing. 8.2. Four Missing, Again. 8.3. Six Missing. 8.4. Five Missing.
8.5. Who Won? 8.6. Sad Story. 9. Little League Games. 9.1. Kids’ Stuff. 9.2.
Kids will be Kids. 9.3. Macy at the Bat. 9.4. It’s an ERG. 9.5. Zhang and Li.
9.6. Li and Zhang. 9.7. Extreme ERGs. 9.8. Advanced Ergonomics. 10. The Final
Problem. 10.1. Child’s Play. 10.2. Pitching In. 10.3. Team Spirit. 10.4. Three
Odd Men. 10.5. The Muskrats’ Pitching. 10.6. The Hornet’s Batting. 10.7. The
Muskrats’ Batting. Hints. Solutions. Crazy Things that don’t happen in this
Book.


AUTHOR(S)


BIOGRAPHY



Jerry Butters has a BA in mathematics from Oberlin College, and an MS in
mathematics and a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago. He taught
mathematics for two years at Mindanao State University in the Philippines as a
Peace Corps volunteer. He taught economics for five years at Princeton
University. For most of his career, he worked on consumer protection cases and
policy issues at the Federal Trade Commission. In his retirement, he has become
a piano teacher and performer. He enjoys hobbies ranging from reading Chinese to
practicing Taiji. This book is an outgrowth of another of his hobbies - his love
of designing and solving puzzles of all sorts.

Jim Henle has a BA in mathematics from Dartmouth College and a PhD from M.I.T.
He taught for two years at U. P. Baguio in the Philippines as a Peace Corps
volunteer, two years at a middle school as alternative service, and 42 years at
Smith College. His research is primarily in logic and set theory, with
additional papers in geometry, graph theory, number theory, games, economics,
and music. He edited columns for The Mathematical Intelligencer. He authored or
co-authored five books. His most recent book, The Proof and the Pudding,
compares mathematics and gastronomy. He has collaborated with Jerry on puzzle
papers and chamber music concerts.






CRITICS' REVIEWS

> " Butters and Henle have devised a series of “retrograde analysis” baseball
> puzzles, meaning puzzles whose goal is to discover something about the history
> of a baseball game given information about how things turned out in the end.
> Some of their puzzles involve analyzing newspaper box scores from actual
> games. This is one of the most creative puzzle books I have seen in years. "
> – Jason Rosenhouse, Games World of Puzzles Magazine





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