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In 1991, women’s fast pitch softball was added to the roster of the 1996 Summer Olympics – a landmark many people recognize as the ultimate success of a sport. Although softball was later dropped from the 2012 Summer Olympics line-up, the game is still one of the most popular participant sports in the United States and 113 countries have officially joined the International Softball Federation since the organization’s formation in 1952. According to the official rules developed early in the…

Before the start of a cricket match, the captains of the two teams under the supervision of the umpire, along with the two team caption tosses a coin to decide which team will bat first. who gets to bat first. The winner of thise toss decides whether to bat or ball first. Can we What are thecalculate chancesthe chances of each captain of winning the toss? Yes. Can we calculate the chances? The chance of each captain winning the toss is his or her probability. Probability is the chance of an…

“Good eye, Matt! I would hear from beyond the dugout as I took the first pitch at bat. The pitcher wound-up and threw in the second pitch and I swung. I missed terribly, and my coaches thought so, too. “C’mon Matt, that was practically in the dirt, what are you swinging at?” I thought back to the first pitch and the chants that followed it, “Good eye, Matt” and “Way to watch the ball come in, Matty Boy.” I couldn’t help but think of all the irony surrounding these comments. The fact of the…

This is the game of baseball is really fun. You should have Nine players on the field. The game of baseball is really competitive. There is a starter pitcher and a relief pitcher, closer pitcher that ends the game. I hope you enjoy this story about baseball.These are the type of pitches that you are going to need to know. There are curveballs It fools the batter by going straight in plate then sliding in the plate.fastballs are made to going right down the plate and making the batter…

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 my sophomore year my baseball team qualified to the state championship game. In high school sports that is the highest stage you can reach. It was the dream of a lifetime to play the championship game at Volcano Stadium. I was so nervous, but I was able to keep my cool during warm ups. The game did not start the way we wanted it, we played terrible the first four innings, making many errors and mental mistakes that cost runs. The game was starting to favor the other team by a staggering…

take a ground ball and then run and get another ball and throw it to first base and then we did double plays. After infield I pitched 25 pretty good pitches to Kaden. After that my half of the team went to go bat. There were four Batting stations including the batting cage. My partner was Joe. One of the stations we…

As my spiked cleat slides across the torn and tattered mound, familiar vibrations run up my leg. My foot finds its place, and once again I explode off the mound, whipping my arm around my body as fast as possible. The ball flies out of my palm and toward the catcher, a sharp popping sound ringing through the air as the ball finds its way into her glove. The ball is quickly thrown back to me as the first strike is called and I pace around the white lines of the pitching circle, my cleats…

My favorite hobby is playing softball during school ball and ASA ball. You can learn to play softball by joining a team and practicing on your free time. Softball can be a difficult sport if you don’t listen; you’re not going to know what to do if you don’t pay attention. When you play, you want to be able to play multiple postitions so that you don’t have to sit the bench. I was taught to play all positions but my main posistioins are shortstop and centerfield; if you are fast you will play one…

When it comes to behavior management in schools today, many schools have experienced a higher amount of students’ problematic behaviors. Though research has shown that over the years discipline referrals have gone down and academic achievement has improved, teachers reveal that student discipline is the most complicated and challenging task for them. In this article, a cross-cultural study was performed to explore elementary teachers’ beliefs in classroom management strategies for students in…