Baseball terminology

I started running as my player hit the box, I took off my cheats hit the ground they slammed pulling up the rubber beads as I ran. I set up against the player coming down I put my pole in front of me and poke the opposing player. It was a warm cool summer day with a nice windy breeze, I was in maryland for a lacrosse tournament. I was playing for my travel team Koopers and were playing against one of our rivales Crabs lacrosse we were both one of the best teams in maryland and top 10 in the…

Growing up in a small town, where success in the girl’s softball program was excellent, it was every little girl's dream to be a part of that program. When I was a little girl I remember sitting in the stands watching the varsity softball team play thinking about the day when I would get the opportunity to be a part of the program. As I grew older I would think to myself, if I had the chance to play for the program would I excel like all the other girls have done in the past years? Also, I…

Troy Maxson: A Villain and Hero The playwright Fences was written by August Wilson who is known as one of America’s most celebrated dramatists (1427). Fences is based on the life of Troy Maxson, an African American who hoped to play baseball in the Negro Leagues, but is now a garbage collector. In the playwright, Troy could be classified as both a hero and a villain through his words and family. Troy Maxson could be portrayed as an average African American who wants his child, Cory, to…

the players and coaches of our team, were the only people that believed that we could beat the Alton Redbirds. Since I was a little kid I’ve dreamed about playing varsity baseball for the Civic Memorial Eagles. It’s probably been every baseball players’ dream as a kid that has been to Bethalto. I’ve always went to their baseball camps and meet the coaches so they would know who I was every year. It would be an honor to wear that uniform and to represent your town and school. My dad and uncle…

How The Civil War helped formed Baseball into the great game that it is today. In this paper I will start with telling you how baseball began and where it originated from. Then I will tell you about the original rules , equipment, and uniforms. Then I will finish up by saying how the game has changed from then and now. Nobody is really sure how baseball got started many say it has roots to the English game called Rounders. The one big difference between baseball and rounder is that in rounders…

Whatever you do good or bad comes back to you. I am doing the right things. I am being blessed in this school, in this country, with nice people that care about me, with a baseball team that supports me. With a good coach that cares about the players, and he wants his players to succeed in life. I know I will receive good things in my life, because I’ve sacrificed my childhood and my prime years in things that will improve the conditions of my family. She just came to me and she gave me oral,…

A personal issue that people face is the courage to try new things. People are afraid of being ridiculed by others who have experience in a certain field. I sometimes question why others will make fun of a someone because they have the courage to try something that they are unfamiliar with. While there are some who will deride a person for having the bravery and determination to be successful in a field that they have no experience in, the majority of those who are experienced will display…

times of success, yet inevitable times of tragedy as well. Roy struggled through his early life and childhood. He grew up playing baseball with his father and had an interesting life in his youth. One day, a lightning bolt struck a tree nearby Roy. With the remaining wood of the tree, Roy fashioned a baseball bat in which he named Wonderboy. For the rest of his baseball career and professional years, Roy had extreme skill when he played with Wonderboy until it broke in his season with the…

Every night, before you go to sleep, you hear the chirping of hundreds of crickets. From mole crickets to a cricket literally called the cooloola monster, every male cricket can chirp. Now, what if I told you that crickets don’t chirp at random, but the speed of the chirps depends on the temperature outside. If I have a male house cricket and put it in a temperature controlled room and turn up the heat. Since crickets like all other insects, cold-blooded, they take on the temperature of their…

In Mark Twain’s, “Life on the Mississippi,” Mark talks about how much he would like to be a captain for a cruise ship because of the benefits from doing it and how rewarding it is to actually become a captain. But in Fredrick Douglass’s, “Narrative of the life of Fredrick Douglass, an American Slave,” he talks about how he seldom got payed and the food was boiled corn meal which barely was enough for all the works since they had to share. There are many differences and similarities in these…