Batting

It was July 2nd, 2010 and we were at my brother’s last freshman baseball game of the year. After that we got home and got our bags made sure we had everything and then we hit the road it was about 4:30 p.m. when we started to head to Chicago. I was excited because it was my first time being out of the state of Iowa. On the way down to Chicago we were listening to the Cubs game and they won that game and the next day was the game we were going to. We were sitting down the Left Field line in…

Sport Science 101G Essay Rugby Rugby Union is a popular contact team sport played by many people all over the world. Millions of people participate in the sport from countries all over the world, with a significant increase in popularity occurring every year. History Rugby originated in England in the early 19th Century, when a student from Rugby School called William Webb Ellis, picked up the ball during a football match and started running forwards with it. In the mid 1800’s, the rules of…

The Kite Runner In the historical fiction book The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini the author illustrates the story about an Afghan boy, Amir, growing up just before the Taliban conquers. This young boy lives with his dad, Baba, his father’s servant, Ali, and the servant’s son, Hassan. The two young boys, Hassan and Amir, are best friends, and share many of their important life experiences together. One day, Hassan is beaten up by a gang of bullies, and Amir does nothing out of fear. Eventually…

Billy Stevens was just a regular teenage boy. He went to school, had friends that he consorted with, had parents who loved him. Life was normal for him. Until the war started. Hundreds of thousands of boys his age enlisted to fight for the cause. Despite his mother’s wishes, Stevens did too. He was hoping to find action, adventure, and glory on the battlefield. What he found instead was a trauma that he would never get over. Billy Stevens experienced many forms of trauma during his service in…

In the Spring of 1947, Jackie Robinson would be named the first black player in major league baseball, playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Until Robinson, the major leagues and the minor leagues were racially segregated. Jackie Robinson broke the color line, first in the minor leagues in 1946 . He then broke the barrier once again one year later, in 1947, when he began his contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers. He was named Rookie of the Year and took home the National League MVP Award in 1949,…

CARIBBEAN CIVILIZATION THINK PIECE The song “Chokra” is the 1996 ICC World Cup song for the Sri Lankan cricketers. “The Sri Lankans were the first host country to win the World Cup, the first country to win the World Cup batting second and it was also their first time ever winning the ICC World Cup” (espncricinfo.com). Though the song is not in English it could be seen or even gathered from the video that it was about national pride, gender and the unification of the masses. The images…

wOBA is considered one of the best stats to quantify batting performance. But what is most likely to contribute to wOBA? Is it more important to have a strong BB/K rate or to produce on balls thrown in the strike zone that are put into play? Is production when hitting fly balls more important than hitting ground balls and if so by how much? In order to determine this, I used 2013-2015 data from ESPN Stats and Information and Pitch FX to see what correlates best with overall wOBA. The first test…

Learning can be defined as a relatively permanent change in behaviour that occurs as a result of experience (Grivas 2013, p. 396). Classical conditioning, operant conditioning and observational learning are all included in the broad theory of learning. These theories and their conceptual components, along with their similarities and differences between each other indicate that there is more than one way in which a human being learns. Conditioning is the process of learning associations between…

As I walked into the stadium, the smell of hotdogs and popcorn filled the air. It was a familiar setting. A setting I had grown to know very well because my dad loved baseball. The red white and blue colors were everywhere as fans came from every direction into the stadium. My dad and I walked to the outfield where the opposing team was warming up for the game. Turner Field in Atlanta was not only home of the Braves, but a home to many baseball fans. The concessions and amenities for the fans,…

for Hannah after her careless and cruel comment. When Hannah accidentally catches herself on fire Eva accuses Sula of “watch[ing] Hannah burn, not because she was paralyzed, but because she was interested” (78). Sula watched her mother die without batting an eyelash. She lost all connection with her mother when Hannah dismissed her as simply a burden that she has to take care of. She does not try to help her mother; she just stands there and watches her…