Although here at Plainedge, my teaching is in the Astronomy area, for the 15 years I lived upstate New York, I was also a radio and television Meteorologist. So since I know a little about the weather, and also a little about baseball, here is an article that you might enjoy, especially if you end up at EAB Park this Summer to cheer on our own Long Island Ducks.
Baseball is played with two main pieces of equipment, the bat and ball.
The ball has a circumference of at least nine inches, and no more than nine and one quarter inches, and weighs between five, and five and one quarter ounces. A cork core is wound with 316 yards of three different kinds of yarn, and is covered with two pieces of cowhide sewn together with 216 red cotton stitches. The bats, mostly made of ash, weigh between 31 and 36 ounces, and are usually two and one half inches in diameter. This point is approximately four to six inches from the end of the bat. Most of the energy upon contact is lost as heat energy.