ABCs of Red Sox Nation: Classic in the classroom

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It may be only a game. But for Boston-area educators, the Red Sox journey to the 100th World Series provides life as well as academic lessons.

Jim Duffy, a fifth-grade science and health teacher at Brockton's Brookfield Elementary School, used Curt Schilling's injured ankle as the inspiration for a class on joints, ligaments, and tendons. Pointing to a skeletal outline of a foot-plus-tibia-and-fibula, Duffy etched in how Schilling's loose tendon was rerouted. Then he pulled on his own glove and illustrated how a windup and pitch stressed Schilling's ankle.

Ninth-grade physics teacher Marsha Turin used baseball statistics to help students at Dorchester's Tech Boston Academy understand ratios as they relate to heat transfer.

``They immediately knew that Johnny Damon didn't have as good a batting average as David Ortiz,'' she said. ``By working to an answer they knew, they were able to understand a new concept.''
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1. Maybe someone will teach them

that batting average is OVERRATED. Ortiz is definitely a better hitter than Damon, BA not even in the equation.