Article: Baseball: Only number I'm interested in is on a score sheet; JAYS CAN COUNT ON MATHS GENIUS JOSH PHELPS.(Sport)

Byline: MARK WOODS

NERDS are the traditional enemy of North American sport, sitting in dingy libraries boning up on their studies while the jocks are sitting in tight pants boning up on the best way to woo a cheerleader. But Toronto Blue Jays fans have taken slugger Josh Phelps to their hearts even though he is a whiz at calculus and spends most of his free time reading books. The 25-year-old could have been a professor of maths. Instead, he'll spend the next six months trying to put up big numbers in Major League Baseball and take Canada's top team to the World ...

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