Home Run Research Paper
Connoisseurs of America’s Pastime will immediately appreciate the colorful way renowned sports anchor Chris Berman vocally illustrates a home run. There’s probably no other single moment in a baseball game that captures fan enthusiasm than when a player ‘leaves the yard’. Of course the final out of a perfect game or no-hitter is cause for jubilation, but that rarity compared to “Back, Back, Back, – Gone”.
The home run has held value in baseball across every era. Traditionalist will boast that it’s simply one way to plate a run. When a batter launches one into the cheap seats, he earns a free trot around the bases. All logic aside that a run is a run, the long ball has the ability to clear the sacks, essentially changing the complexity of …show more content…
Because of this, the era of anabolic steroids, gave Major League Baseball a black eye in spite of an explosive in the number of the home runs.
Modify the Measurements
Odd thing about the whole theory that doping muddled the home run’s credibility during that era, total home runs in baseball climbed over 5,000 total during the last three seasons of the 20th century. In 2000, a record 5,693 balls left the yard. All good HGH testing aside, the number of home runs hit has hovered around 5 grand for the last 2 decades, nearly breaking the seasonal high last year with a whopping 5,610 homers.
Beginning in 1998, the total homers surpassed 5,000 eight straight years. Over that same span, 16 new ballparks have been built, most with dimensions clearly favoring hitters over pitchers. Even existing stadiums have seen a tendency to shorten the porch as they say.
When the fence is closer it’s quite scientific that players with less power potential are going to hit more balls over that fence. Baseball had to eliminate the doping element, but they still wanted the excitement of the home run. So to prove how much they value the prevalence of the long ball, they restructured field dimensions,
The home run has held value in baseball across every era. Traditionalist will boast that it’s simply one way to plate a run. When a batter launches one into the cheap seats, he earns a free trot around the bases. All logic aside that a run is a run, the long ball has the ability to clear the sacks, essentially changing the complexity of …show more content…
Because of this, the era of anabolic steroids, gave Major League Baseball a black eye in spite of an explosive in the number of the home runs.
Modify the Measurements
Odd thing about the whole theory that doping muddled the home run’s credibility during that era, total home runs in baseball climbed over 5,000 total during the last three seasons of the 20th century. In 2000, a record 5,693 balls left the yard. All good HGH testing aside, the number of home runs hit has hovered around 5 grand for the last 2 decades, nearly breaking the seasonal high last year with a whopping 5,610 homers.
Beginning in 1998, the total homers surpassed 5,000 eight straight years. Over that same span, 16 new ballparks have been built, most with dimensions clearly favoring hitters over pitchers. Even existing stadiums have seen a tendency to shorten the porch as they say.
When the fence is closer it’s quite scientific that players with less power potential are going to hit more balls over that fence. Baseball had to eliminate the doping element, but they still wanted the excitement of the home run. So to prove how much they value the prevalence of the long ball, they restructured field dimensions,