This week the biggest thing that took place in the news is Chicago cubs has been celebrating after they beat Los Angeles Dodgers, took them to the world baseball serious for the first time in 71 years. This win boost Chicago with a darker reputation the last years, Chicago beat Los Angeles and New York in the last few years in terms of gang murders.…
I am sure Mo ’ne has inspired, so many girls of all races, nationalities, etc. Yes, her chances of becoming a professional baseball player is slim to none, but she has broken through the ice, to allow other girls in the next generations, to one day become professional baseball players. Whether intentionally or not, she has emerged as a role model and icon, to girls everyone. Young girl’s watching her play, will know there is no such things as impossible and you can succeed in your dreams and goals.…
For you to be a consistent winner as a sports gambler, you must have a winning percentage above 52.38%. That doesn’t sound very difficult on the surface, but in reality it takes a tremendous amount of skill to consistently beat the point spread. In contrast, many sports gamblers are often simply gambling for entertainment purposes and bet on their favorite teams for added excitement. That’s why bookmakers in major cities skew the point spread on the area’s teams to their advantage. For example, if the Philadelphia Eagles are favored by 7 points in Las Vegas, many Philadelphia bookies will likely have them favored by 8 or 9 points because they know that more of their clients will bet on the hometown team.…
The sport of baseball has been a huge part of my life since an early childhood. I was born in 1977 and grew up through the 80’s when a country boy had to ride the bus 1 hour to get home and then if you were lucky you were able to catch the last 10 minutes of Duck Tales and then a half hour episode of Chip and Dales Rescue Rangers. When that 5 o’clock hour would reach it was time to put on the glove and go out to the yard and play baseball. My brother Justin and I would spend hours playing catch, having home run derby’s with the power line as a make shift fence. Our dad would break out the baseball bat and hit fly balls to us and when that would become to routine we would start to make late jumps on the ball just to make sure that we had an opportunity for a diving catch. Baseball was a big part of my life and it still is now even into my mid 30’s. I now play the sport that It cherish so much for my family, granted it is no longer bus rides from town to town and the sun flower seeds with the high intensity speed, but trimmed down to a few nights a week with close friends and family playing slow pitch softball where more beer is drank then high fives are given. This brief introduction was and still is a big part of my life and the reason that I chose to give my process speech on the subject “How to fill out a baseball scorebook”.…
It's about twelve o'clock at night and I'm just now getting ready to go to sleep. As I lie down on the bed I feel a sudden urge to grab my phone and watch a couple of videos before I fall asleep. I open up the YouTube app and begin scrolling through numerous videos. Approaching the bottom of my suggested videos, I see a certain video that caught my eye. The video said how a young boy would be able to live out his dream of being a major league baseball player for his favorite team. Intrigued by the caption, I clicked on the video. The story was about a young boy named Kyle who suffered from a illness called SMA (Spinal muscular atrophy). Kyle and his sister were both born with this disease and most children with SMA dont make it past the age of two. The video explained how Kyle was a huge Arizona Diamondbacks fan, and that his one wish was to meet and play for the Diamondbacks. Eventually his wish was granted by an organization by the name of Make-A-Wish foundation. The foundation was able to contact the MLB and arrange the wish with the Arizona Diamondbacks organization. Then Kyle finally got to live out his dream and meet his favorite players and eventually sign a contract with the Diamondbacks. As I saw Kyle having the time of his life and living…
Troy’s dreams are thwarted due to accounts of racism that occur in his life and he refuses to acknowledge that any racial progress has been made. Although he is constantly told he is too old to play baseball, Troy sees it in different way. To Troy ability has nothing to do with age, he believes the single reason for him not making it in the major leagues is racism. Troy’s longings to become a baseball player are obstructed by oppression and discrimination. Like many black athletes, Troy was not given the same opportunities as white people were, which strengthened his already adamant view toward the idea of one’s skill vs. the color of one’s skin “I’m talking about if you could play ball then they ought to have let you play. Don’t care what color you were” (Wilson 18). Troy gets frustrated with…
Long before Martin Luther KIng’s “I have a dream” and the bus standing from Rosa Parks there came a man, baseball player, and great enthusiast, Jackie Robinson. I was born on January 31st, 1919. My older brother, Matthew, participated in track, and I wanted to be like my brother. When I was younger people were constantly being rude to me, but I tried to push through it. I became a basketball player, football player, baseball player, and I was also involved in track when I was in high school. I graduated from high school in 1937. When I started playing professional baseball I played in the negro leagues for the Kansas City, Monarchs. I was later signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.…
Practice makes perfect is the thought that practicing for an activity will prepare you during the competition. This saying does not stand true in Chad Harbach’s, The Art of Fielding, a novel that focuses on the lives of five characters at a fictional, Wetish College. One of the main characters, Henry Skrimshander is recruited to Westish for baseball by a player, Mike Schwartz., and eventually becomes a top MLB prospect. During his junior year, Henry has experience that change his outlook on life.…
Today, I heard about a participation argument over trophies being gave for participating in sports. They get a trophy for playing the sport when they did not earn it. Parents don’t realize what they are doing to their kids by just giving them things without and work or earning it. I myself am against the idea of trophies for playing a sport or something unless you or your team did earn it.…
Growing up, two things in my household were certain: mathematics and baseball. Being the son of a mathematics and statistics professor, the subjects themselves were never in short supply; however, it was not the immediate exposure of statistics that instilled my love for the science; it was baseball. Every summer, my dad was the coach for the legion baseball team, and when I myself was not playing, I helped keep the book for my dad’s team.…
There have always been those kids in high school who are really athletic and just particularly amazing at sports. Many of those kids go on and begin a road to attempt to elevate their game to the level of a professional athlete. Of those that attempt to go pro many will try and enter the world of professional baseball. The path of a Major League Baseball player is long, difficult and more often than not a short lived occurrence. Along the way potential players learn the life of being a professional baseball player from small to big time stages of play. That life includes knowing what is expected of a player’s skills, handling the media, baseball values, and learning how to be a member of the baseball community that a player becomes a part of in their professional lives.…
As a child, I grew up carrying a baseball glove and a pearly white baseball wherever I went, hoping for the chance of finding a partner to play catch with. The game of baseball was never just a game for me; it was a lifestyle that I had fallen in love with. With that being said, the fundamentals of baseball had no immediate effect on me as a kid. However, as I have matured along with my love for baseball, I believe that the game my life has been centered around for nearly twelve years has shaped me into the person I am today.…
The process of becoming a great baseball player takes talent, hard work, and a ton of practice. Baseball, being the second hardest sport in the world is a hard sport to stay discipline at. As a player, he must make sure he works at all the drills everyday, boring or not. Also, he must have the mental mind set that he definitely wants to make it to the big leagues, if he doesn't, then its all a big waste. If a player is playing to be mediocre, then there's no use, play to win! Doing drills, and keeping in shape requires dedication and a mind set which reflects one thing, and that is to be the best, and to not let anyone stop you from being so.…
Growing up I played baseball to me baseball was everything i could think of. i couldn't wait to the weekend so i could put on that dirty uniform and pick up the new bat and nice leather glove and play baseball. When i was young i played in a big park in NYC where everyone saw you play so as i grew up everyone expected me to continue playing baseball and get better and work hard my mother always signed me up for baseball and i met a lot of coaches who help me gain more talent throughout the years. So as i grew up baseball started to be more and more of a priority to me i went to baseball practice two times a week one during the week and one on the weekend and with baseball practice i attended a baseball program which is twice a week meaning less and less time for homework and time to study. that being said i believe that time management and dealing with less and less sleep is the biggest problem with high school sports.…
One question that I am very familiar with that I know can lead to continuous arguments is this: “Aren’t baseball and softball the same thing?”. Many people believe that they are pretty much the same thing. Other people think that they are very different, and many of those people think that one sport is better than the other. I am going to go into deeper detail about the two sports to see how alike and different they are.…