“Both state and city officials need to take action to ensure that this crisis isn’t multiplied by profiteers.”

This started out with a 20-strong team, but quickly multiplied to some 150 people.

“But then we multiplied it by a couple hundred thousand people to fill that stadium,” he adds.

Known as the “silent killer,” people often don’t show symptoms, which includes fatigue, belly pain and a loss appetite, before the cancer cells have multiplied.

He included the stat in the seminal Runs Created formula he devised in the 1970s, which simply counts times on base, multiplied by bases advanced, divided by opportunities.