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    Baseball Simulation

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    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Los Angeles A Player Based Approach to Baseball Simulation A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Statistics by Adam Philip Sugano 2008 © Copyright by Adam Philip Sugano 2008 The dissertation of Adam Philip Sugano is approved. _______________________________________ Jan de Leeuw _______________________________________ Rick Paik Schoenberg _______________________________________

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    Invention Of Baseball

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    invented the game of baseball. How he became a Civil War hero while baseball was growing in America. But sadly‚ this is not true at all. Doubleday was still involved in the war in West Point‚ and claimed he had nothing to do with the invention of baseball. The story was told around by a former major league player Aj Spalding claiming he got the story from Abner Graves‚ a mining engineer. Later on major league officials talk and rely on the myth and then put it in the Baseball Hall of Fame. The actual

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    Fences Baseball

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    BaseballKristy McInnis Mr. Krantz English 3 5\16\2013 The Symbolism of Baseball Fences by August Wilson is a play full of baseball imagery‚ which is key to understanding the writing. Being a play the reader must interpret the scenes from emotions‚ setting‚ tone‚ and interpretation. This gives them insight to how August Wilson wants to portray the book. Being a white man writing from the perspective of a poor black man he sends the reader back into a time where blacks were inferior. They were

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    Baseball Bats

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    Wooden Baseball Bats vs. Aluminum Baseball Bats When you have the choice between a wooden baseball bat and an aluminum baseball bat‚ which one would you choose? Both are acceptable to play with… If you like tradition‚ the wooden bat is the one for you. If you like the lighter bat‚ the aluminum bat is for you. However‚ if you base your decision on which plays better‚ you’ll end up playing with the better of the two. Aluminum bats are obviously stronger than wooden bats. Wooden often break

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    Baseball Beginnings

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    Baseball Beginnings A ball‚ a bat‚ and four bases on a field. The elements of the game that became baseball have been around for hundreds of years‚ also know as an English game called rounders.[#1 Appositive] Americans had been playing another ball game with bases called “town ball” since the Revolutionary War. By the 1840s‚ sportsmen in several Northeastern cities were gathering regularly to play several variations of what they called baseball. In 1845‚ Alexander Cartwright and Daniel Adams

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    Baseball 42

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    The number 42 is a revered number in Major League Baseball. It has been worn by many legends of the game including Jackie Robinson and Mariano Rivera. While both Mariano and Jackie played during totally different time periods in baseball‚ both left an eternal mark on the sport. There will never be another player who wears 42 because the MLB has retired the number across the league. Jackie Robinson was the first African American baseball player in the Major Leagues. Many other black legends

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    Steroids In Baseball

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    people agree that baseball has always been and always will be considered America’s past time. This game has been played for many centuries and every year the people want more. But to what extent are the players willing to go to‚ to keep the game going? We cannot deny that everyone loves to see players hit homeruns and to see the ball fly out of the park‚ it is one of the greatest things to happen in a game. This homerun tradition has been going on since the Babe Ruth era of baseball and many would argue

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    Physics of Baseball

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    "Baseball ’s a simple game. You hit the ball. You throw the ball. You catch the ball‚" said a well-respected baseball manager by the name of Casey Stengel. Mr. Stengel was a baseball man‚ not a mathematician nor a physicist. Physics and mathematics can be applied to the game of baseball on every pitch‚ and on every swing of the bat. To understand the physics of the game‚ it is first necessary to look at the center of the game‚ the ball. Section 1.09 of the Official Baseball Rules states that

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    the business of baseball

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    The way baseball is managed to me is a business like every other business‚ you have the owners‚ the general managers‚ the middle management‚ couches‚ assistant couches‚ and the team. They all have an extremely important part that they do in the operations of the franchise. All members work to acquire the same goal and that is to have a chance at being in the World Series‚ so every decision effects the way that can happen‚ weather it is the franchise recruiting a new player or the couch not playing

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    Hitting In Baseball

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    It is often said the hardest thing to do in sports is hit a baseball. Hitting a round ball with a round bat is nearly impossible. How do hitters do it? Hitting is much more complex than making contact between the ball and the bat. Hitting is fundamental. One needs excellent hand-eye coordination. How does one hit a baseball? First off‚ one must have the proper batting stance. The proper stance is feet a little wider than shoulder width‚ knees bent and an almost straight upper body with both eyes

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