Scandium, Baseball, and the Periodic Table of Death and Mystery

If you played baseball or softball as a kid after the mid-1970s, you most likely swung an aluminum bat in the on-deck circle. And if you play now in an intramural city league trying to relive the glory days of your youth (don’t deny it), you will step up to the plate with a scandium-aluminum alloy bat. So, it’s not a mystery how you pulled a muscle hot-footing it to second on that very obvious single.