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Originally Posted by Spylake
342 is Babe Ruth's life time batting average in round numbers, maybe if you calculate the number to full precision it is 342.242026.
Played for the Bosox too .. and Fenway park is right next to Copley Square.
Could it be a baseball based contest?
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If by "right next to" you mean 6 miles, then sure.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&hl=e...9911&z=15&om=1
And, I just remembered this past weekend the only obscure reference I recall that someone, who is named Woodie, made about Boston.
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Sometimes, he said, he wonders how much society understands or appreciates scientific achievement. Using the Ted Williams Tunnel to make this point, Professor Flowers said, "Here you have a multimillion-dollar engineering triumph, and it's named after a guy who could hit a rock with a stick."
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Quoted from both here:
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/1997/techday-0611.html
& also paraphrased here:
http://bostonphoenix.com/boston/news...s/01710000.htm