The transition from winter to spring brings with it one of my favorite sports — baseball. Baseball is one of those games where memories are made and life lessons are learned. In the HVAC profession, we can learn a valuable lesson relating to HVAC system performance testing from the game of baseball.

Ted Williams, one of the greatest sluggers in the sport, once said the hardest thing to do is squarely hit a round baseball with a round bat. Hitting a baseball appears to be physically impossible, yet, each season, players consistently hit the ball. Is this luck or is there a repeatable method to achieve what appears physically impossible?