Backward Baseball - Futility Closet

Backward Baseball - Futility Closet

In a retrograde analysis puzzle, one tries to deduce the history of a game from the current state of play. The most familiar examples concern chess, but Smith College mathematician Jim Henle worked out that it can also be done in baseball. This is the batting order of the Mudville Slugs: Flynn Blake Casey Hobbes Davis Shlabotnick Thayer Cooney Barrows We’re told also that in the ninth inning Casey came to bat for the fourth time, while the base…