An invention that really was real cool is Softball. Its real cool and real fun.It's cool how they have a certain way you can get out.It's real fun to,but also it can be very dangerous.You could easily get hurt..for instance. It is fun and cool how you could slide on base,but you can get hurt by trying to slide your legs are first you could break an ankle,or arm or you could even get a head injury,but don't think of what bad things could happen. There are a lot of great things that can happen in…
¨Time to go!¨ yelled Mom, ¨Ok let me just put away my toys and grab my gear¨ I anwsered. It was Summer 2013, I was 7 years old and I was going to my final game of the baseball season.Thinking about how I would, considering I was playing with kids 2 to 3 years older than me. When I had arrived the team was already starting to practice. The game was about to start, so I got ready to gear up and play. We were defending intially and the opposing team was hitting…
It was the bottom of the ninth, and the Yankees are currently up to bat. There are men on second and third base, yet only one out in the inning. One of our best pitches on the Cardinals roster this year, which was 1930. Jesse Haines was closing the game today. We were currently winning by one run, the score is 3-2 and all we have to do is hold them and the game is ours. Nevertheless, with our luck, Babe Ruth steps up to the plate. He is not a force to be looked down on, with his .359…
watching baseball has always been my favorite pastime. And a few years ago, I was introduced to an element of baseball that involves another passion of mine, mathematics. The study of the utterly distinct, yet blissful marriage of baseball and mathematics is known as sabermetrics, and it has brought my love of baseball to a new level. “Sabermetricians,” attempt to analyze baseball from a mathematical perspective in order to obtain a statistical edge over the competition, and many baseball teams…
1. Bibliography: Green, Shawn and McAlpine, Gordon. The Way of Baseball. New York, New York: Simon and Schuster Paperbacks, 2011. 224 pages 2. Title: The title is The Way of Baseball. It is significant because it tells you about baseball and how you can find stillness and what to do when you have found stillness. 3. Characters: Shawn Green is the protagonist who plays in the MLB some of his personality traits would be hard working, frustrated, and ambitious. Some of his physical characteristics…
football and baseball are two totally different sports they tend to have some similarities. They can range from minor to drastic similarities or differences. These two sports are some of the most famous major leagues sports. Baseball differs from football in a variety of ways. One of the major ways are that baseball is played on a baseball field made of dirt and grass. Another difference is that baseball has bases and football does not. Football is played in quarters while baseball is played in…
Strike Three! At ninety-eight miles per hour, Jennie Finch pitches all strikes for every game. But that is what you may have seen if you had been lucky enough to witness one of the games that Finch was the pitcher in: She stunned the softball world with her amazing performance. At age five Jennie Finch started playing softball, and became a pitcher at eight years old(Team). She played for the Arizona Wildcats, and the Chicago Bandits, and she has won two Olympic medals and seven world…
Ding! The sound of when you hit the baseball. When the crowd starts yelling, and cheering. When you run to first base looking to turn to second base, and then you slide into second and the umpire calls you safe. The feeling of joy and happiness, for me that is baseball. I do this because it is a hobby, and it is one of my favorite things to do. If you make a play, that is one of the best feelings I could feel. I do this with my team go out and play baseball, try our hardest, play to win, and…
of the seventh. We have a pitching substitution. Fernando Rodney replaces Trevor Cahill for the Cubs. Matt Carpenter is up to the plate. It’s called a strike! The Cubs fans here at Wrigley go crazy! He takes ball one. It’s a beautiful night for baseball. Oh, he takes ball two. Oh, a swing and a miss for strike two!! The fans here at Wrigley field are up on their feet cheering and going crazy, pushing Rodney to throw a third strike!! The fifth pitch goes foul. The Cubs fans are still going crazy…
Baseball is a game played with a bat and a ball between two teams of nine players, each on a large field having four bases that mark the course a runner must take to score. It requires teamwork and communication. Subsequent to watching the short documentary, San Quentin’s Giants, I showed some of my neighbors the short film and asked them what they thought the overall message was. Most of them said that they thought the factual program was about how convicts at San Quentin State Prison got…