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Play Ball! Activity Sheet

McGraw-Hill Mathematics: Grade 5, Chapter 14

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McGraw-Hill Math
Play Ball!

Baseball Almanac
http://www.baseball-almanac.com

Visit this Web site to see how statistics are used to show what hitters and pitchers have accomplished in the game of baseball.

  • Click Hitting Charts in the menu on the left. Scroll down to Year by Year Leaders and click Batting Average. Use the information in the chart to solve problems 1-3.
  • Click Pitching Charts in the menu on the left. Scroll down to Year by Year Leaders and click Winning Percentage. Use the information in the chart to solve problems 4 and 5.
  • Click the Back arrow once to return to Pitching Leaders. Then scroll up to Pitching Awards and click Cy Young. Use the information in the chart to solve problems 6 and 7.

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    1. In 2001, Ichiro Suzuki had the American League's best batting average. Write the decimal that shows his batting average that year as a percent and as a fraction in simplest form.

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    2. Rogers Hornsby had the National League's best batting average 7 times between 1920 and 1928. During which of those seven seasons, did he get a hit in at least 2/5 of his times at bat? (Change 2/5 to a percent or a decimal to help you answer the question.)

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    3. Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox led the American League in batting average 6 times between 1941 and 1958. In which of those years did he get a hit better than 34.9 % of his at bats?

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    4. Hall of Fame pitcher Lefty Grove led the American League in winning percentage 6 times during the 1920s and 1930s. In which year did he win exactly 3/4 of his decisions? (Remember that a decision is a game in which the pitcher either won or lost.) Write his winning percentage as both a decimal and a percent.

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    5. Hall of Fame pitcher Tom Seaver led the National League in winning percentage 3 times from 1969 through 1981. In which year did he win exactly 7/8 of his decisions? Write his winning percentage for that year as both a decimal and a percent.

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    6. Pedro Martinez was the American League Cy Young Award winner in 1999. The column labeled W-L shows how many games he won and how many he lost. How many decisions did Martinez have that year? What percent of his decisions did he win? Round your answer to the nearest whole number percent, if necessary.

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    7. Randy Johnson was the National League Cy Young Award winner in 2000. How many decisions did he have that year? What percent of his decisions did he win? Round your answer to the nearest whole number percent, if necessary.

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    Math at Home

    Today I explored a Web site that had baseball statistics going back more than 100 years. I used the hitting and pitching statistics to solve some problems. I figured out that in 1999 Pedro Martinez won __________ % of his decisions.

    You can find out more about this topic by asking your teacher or parents to show you other Web sites.


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