Specific purpose: I will inform my audience about the history of softball to present day.…
This requires a team to have players performing well in each of the five categories to be successful. These preliminary conclusions come as a result of the conditions imposed by the ESPN fantasy league and are only the tip of the iceberg in relation to the findings the data will provide. The dataset used in this article is comprehensive statistics of MLB players during the 2005 season. The data contain 21 different batting criteria that are continuous variables and three categorical variables that group the players by position, team and league. The criteria are specifically batting oriented and do not reflect any pitching or defensive statistics, gearing the focus of this article to the offensive side of a fantasy team. The 21 continuous variables include the aforementioned five criteria used directly in calculating fantasy performance, leading initial analysis to be focused primarily on them. There are 278 separate player entries in the data with no missing values per player. All players are batters; no pitchers are included regardless of whether they batted during the season. There are some difficulties with these data based on the different league rules pertaining to the American League’s (AL’s) designated hitter (DH) position. DHs are classified as LFs, making the number of LFs twice as large as any other position and possibly skewing results because characteristics of DHs and LFs differ…
American baseball player Wes Westrum once stated that “Baseball is like church: many attend, but few understand.” The game of baseball requires patience, and above all precision. The biggest component of precision is the pitcher. Pitchers are generally the most important player in the game. Most do not understand the enormity of the role that a pitcher has. They control the tempo of the game, the number of hits, and are there to prevent the opponent from getting a run. In a game, there are two types of pitchers: the starting pitcher and the relief pitcher. The major differences between these players are stress on the players, arm care, rest, and the financial gain.…
The baseball bat controversy has been lingering over amateur baseball since the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) allowed the use of aluminum bats for the first time in 1974 (Adelson). Every year there is another injury to pitcher as a result of the aluminum bat due to its exit velocity. The exit velocity of a ball plays a key role in determining the level of risk of injury. It is defined as the speed of the ball off the bat. The standard exit velocity of an aluminum bat at the sweet spot is nearly 105 mph. That is nearly fifteen times faster than any wooden bat. “Last year, Andrew Sanchez, a Cal State Northridge pitcher had his skull fractured by a ball hit by an aluminum bat” (Adelson5). Sanchez later sued the NCAA and Louisville Slugger, one of the two makers of the high powered aluminum bat. Louisville Slugger remarked, “Sanchez should have known that the high powered bats increased the risk of injuries of injuries to pitchers” (Adelson 5).…
America’s pastime and the tailed off version. The similarities and differences between baseball and softball. Baseball and softball are different and similar, the most obvious ones to the common eye are baseball fields are much larger and have a minimum of 300 feet and the players pitch overhand while in softball the field is a minimum of 200 feet and the players pitch underhand. The similarities entail the general concept of the game like “three strikes you’re out” and also while hitting the players both want to make contact with the ball and the bat the exact same way because they both want a nice level line drive rather than a pop-up.…
Crack! There goes the ball, flying through the air, “is it going to make it?” The Commentator says. “Is it a homerun, yes it is!” The horns Roar as loud as a Lion and the Crowd goes wild. “He makes it once again, is Babe Ruth Unbeatable?” The commentator says as if he wasn’t amazed. Bring back one of the greatest baseball players of all time and watch the story right before your eyes.…
There is no other game that an athlete fails at more than as a batter in the MLB. It is a given. If you hit three times out of eight you are doing awesome. That means you failed five times. But think about what you have to do as a hitter. There are five or more different types of pitches coming at you with different speeds and velocity. You have a split second to decide if you are swinging and where will you swing your bat. If you swing too early you better have long arms to reach for that ball and pull it. If you swing too late you better be strong enough to pull it down the right field line. Wow! That is awesome!…
Baseball, America 's national pastime, is an arena in which players behave remarkably like Malinowski 's Trobriand fishermen. To professional ballplayers, baseball is more than just a game. It is an occupation. Since their livelihoods depend on how well they perform, many use magic to try to control the chance that is built into baseball. There are three essential activities of the gamepitching, hitting, and…
Baseball is a very commonly played sport. There was once a story that Abner Doubleday invented baseball in 1839 but that story was never really proved. The first published rules were written in 1845 for a New York baseball club by Alexander Cartwright. He is known as a commonly “father of baseball”. On June 3, 1953 congress officially gave Alexander Cartwright credit for inventing the current game of baseball. Alexander is a member of the baseball hall of fame.…
In this version of kickball basketball there are 2 teams with about 13 players on each team. The game is still played on a full sized basketball court. In this game the pitcher rolls out the ball to the kicker, and the kicker kicks it. After the kick has been made, the objective of the offense is for them to run as fast as they can around the basses to get to home plate before the defense makes 5 passes and shoot the ball into the basket. However, if the offensive player gets around all three bases before the defense makes their 5 passes and a shot, the runner must tag the next person in line on offense. Then that person starts to run around the bases. If the defensive basket…
“You did not make the softball team” is a sentence I heard almost invariably. I had just moved to Texas, where I was thrust into a whole new world of sports. Athletes played year round, unlike the north where sport seasons were only six months long because of the cold, likewise, the competition was unlike anything I had ever seen. I tried out for over a dozen teams, from the very best to the very worst and did not make one. Inevitably, there was always a girl who was faster, stronger, and overall better than I was. I was eventually given a choice, to quit softball and pursue another hobby or continue to play softball and refuse to let others beat me. I choose the ladder.…
Baseball and Softball have many contrasting characteristics that may be difficult to point out. One of them is the type of ball. Baseballs are white ball with red stitching, and have a circumference of nine inches. Softballs are yellow and have a circumference of twelve inches. Another contrasting detail is the pitching style. Baseball pitching is usually overhand or sidearm, while softball pitching must be done underhand. Nevertheless the major league pitching speeds exceed over ninety miles an hour in baseball, while fastpitch softball can be from sixty to seventy miles an hour. Not only are the pitching styles are different, but you can also notice a difference in how both softball and baseball players approach a pitch. When hitting a…
differences in the equipment used in volleyball then there is in softball. You don’t use…
It takes one major blow to turn the course of a life upside down. In Pitcher’s Hands, Curt was the guy who held the standard for a college student. There was nothing to hate about him since he had grown up being infused with Christian morals. In fact, his Christian morals lead him to a volunteer opportunity to help a paraplegic take a bath once a week. It seemed as if Curt was living a model Christian life. Now take Brad from The Voice of the Body into consideration. He was willing to be dragged along to church weekly with his parents, had a hard time getting out of bed in the morning, and did not communicate well with his parents. For both Curt and Brad, it only took one event in each of their lives to alter their walk of life forever in the faith.…
Yet, most people questioned, myself included, how could someone so small in stature accomplish a goal this large? I was first introduced to the game of softball at a young age, and I was absolutely inept at the game. Ball after ball would pass by me, while I just played in the outfield; however, I never bothered to rush after the ball. I instead was content to pick dandelions. Upon beginning junior high school, I…