Whether it's time for spring training or the World Series, baseball offers lots of opportunities for learning. It's a game of statistics, so the Math opportunities are almost endless. It's also a national pastime with its own place in American history.
Baseball also involves lots of special vocabulary, and some fascinating physics.
TeachersFirst has collected samples of Baseball-related lessons from around the Web. We'll add to this collection as suitable new material becomes available. The Science of Baseball is the Exploratorium's collection of activities and descriptions involving physics, biomechanics, and baseball. There's lots of real-world physics at this site, and the presentation is engaging as well as instructive. The Batting Cage is a student-created site which offers a nice collection of baseball physics problems, applets, and demonstrations.