Baseball rules

Oklahoma Baptist University (OBU). The path for me to get to OBU was all part of God’s plan for my life. It all started at around the time I turned five and fell in love with sports. Ever since then my life has been centered around sports, whether it be baseball, basketball, football, or golf. If it involved competition then I was going to participate. When I was a kid my favorite sport was basketball, mainly because my grandfather played basketball at Oklahoma State University (OSU) for the…

would be consequences. Furthermore, he tried to pay it back with the help of a childhood friend that works for a company called Smyth and Stevens Security; but the only way he would be willing to give him the money was if he coached a little league baseball team in order to receive 500 dollars a week. The movie takes place in the inner city of Chicago at a field behind housing projects. According to Roger Ebert (2001), "Hardball" uses gambling just for motivation and atmosphere (p.1). The…

David Wright once said, “ I take positives out of negatives all the time.” In baseball, I do that all the time. Everyone has those games where they have things to work on. I had a baseball game where I over slid second base and with my cleats as big as his leg, I slid into Billy. Right after I slid into his legs, Billy dropped down and started crying. Billy hated me for what I did to him. When he was down on the ground I glanced over to their bench and the parents, coaches and players had a…

When I was 6 years old I’ve always watched softball on ESPN. One day I thought for a minute ummm….. I want to try to play softball. When my mom came home from work that day I told her I want to play softball. She was surprised. Mom said “Oh really? “ “Yes really” I said. “Ok I will talk to your dad about it.” I got my way like always. That next day my dad and I went to Hibbits to go buy me a pair of cleats, batting gloves, a glove, and a bat and a helmet that matches. I was so excited to start…

hit a homerun. Hitting the ball is one of the greatest feelings in the world. Once hit you run to first base if the ball isn't close by it would be a great opportunity to run the the next base. The softball field may be smaller than the average baseball field but the ball is bigger and pitched underhand on flat ground. Softball was invented in 1887…

Huevelen sparked my curiosity when he said we find that there are some things in this world that are repeatable. Repeatable. Repeatable. So a baseball pitcher, if he throws a ball with the same speed and in the same direction, spinning the ball the same, it'll end up going about the same place. And then that repeats itself, so it almost seems like there must be some rules that govern that behavior. As my adventure drew to a close, I thought, how appropriate that it should end on Halloween? After…

anyone in my family can remember we have always been in America. However I do not believe that is true, after doing several days of probing I wasn’t able to discredit that statement. We are a Christian base family and we try really hard to live by the rules in the bible. Just like the other millions of Christian families we often backslide on our religion and start to live the way that we do. Sooner or later we always come back to our Christian base and repent and try it all over again. It seems…

1926, the name softball was proposed by a Denver YMCA, and it stuck (“History of Softball” History). In fall of 1933, the Amateur Softball Association (ASA) was founded. The ASA brought in rules that were standardized and had to be followed by anyone who wished to play the sport. They also established different rules and regulations for different age groups to make it fair (“History of Softball” History). The sport’s first major appearance was in 1933 at the World’s Fair. Leo Fischer, a…

favorite pizza. For me it was bringing home that state championship trophy. My little league all-star teamed was feared all through Davenport. Everyone knew that Northwest Little League was the most star-studded team in the Quad City area. Winning baseball games had became a tradition for my team. We were like the New York Yankees of Davenport Little Leagues. Everyone hated us, wanted to be us, but no one could ever beat us. So it was no…

I have grown up watching, playing, and studying many different sports, whether it be football, or baseball, or basketball, or sometimes even soccer. I have always enjoyed playing sports, however, as an athlete, I have a distinct responsibility to practice sportsmanship. Sportsmanship is one of the most important facets of sports today. Sportsmanship allows us athletes to hate the other team for the duration of the game, but respect them at the same time. Sportsmanship is defined as “fair-play,…