The Double-A affiliate of the San Francisco Giants (that would be the Richmond Flying Squirrels) play in a stadium 2,872 miles from Oracle Park. That’s the greatest distance between an affiliate and its parent club in all of organized baseball.
This is one of the many facts my son and I forgot to mention on today’s episode of Math and Musings, “recorded live,” from the road, in Richmond, Virginia, after we witnessed the Flying Squirrels host my hometown’s Binghamton Rumble Ponies.
For a complete description of what we did discuss, check out today’s episode.