Dugout

Not much was different about the games, but I remember being completely appalled by the game of softball. Nobody could have possibly prepared me for the bright and frilly pink uniforms or the chants that the teams would yell at one another from the dugouts. So althought the games of baseball and softball are relatively the exact same, I could not stand softball. The only problem was that I could not just start playing baseball again simply because of the circumstances, and then I had to face the…

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,…

most convincing is Jo Anne Van Tilburg's suggestion that Easter Islanders modified the so-called and canoe ladders that were widespread on Pacific islands for transporting heavy wooden logs, which had to be cut in the forest and shaped there into dugout canoes and then transported to the coast. (page 110)” “Many of those 21 vanished species besides the palm would have been valuable to the islanders. Two of the tallest trees, Alphitonia cf.…

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…

The year was 1692. The Puritan colonies faced a variety of threats in the New World, especially from the Native Americans (“Salem Witch Trials”, 2015). Puritan way of life was taking a more liberal turn (“Salem Witch Trials”, 2015). Considering the Puritan culture’s emphasis on religion, logically, they would look to a religious mechanism to deal with this problem. Ideas of superstition, ever present in Puritan culture and recorded in books such as A Discourse on the Damned Art of Witchcraft,…

Having played softball for nine years, I have been through five coaches. I know what makes a good coach, and I know what doesn’t make a good coach. Your coach can be one of the most influential people in your life. You spend everyday after school and most weekends with your coach. Over the course of the season you form some sort of relationship with your coach. As a coach, it is their job to encourage you, support you, help you improve your skills, and push you to be a better athlete. When they…

The next great event of 1947 happened in America’s Pastime of Major League Baseball. In 1947, baseball was separated by skin color just like most places in the U.S. during this time. The whites played in the MLB while the blacks had their own league, the Negro League. This was how baseball was played until a man by the name of Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers team. If Robinson could become good enough to play in the MLB for the Dodgers, he would be the “major leagues’ first…

a horrible slump. I dropped to ninth in the batting order and I believed that this was because the coach did not like me. My coach was particularly strict and often would become angry if I was one minute late to practice or if I was eating in the dugout. Therefore, I came to the conclusion that he did not like me as a person and was taking this out on me by lessening my playing time. However, in reality, I had lost confidence in my hitting ability which greatly affected my performance. Another…

"I'm benching myself, Joe-- for the good of the team," Gehrig told Joe McCarthy, his manager. Lou Gehrig never played baseball again. On July 4, 1939, between the doubleheader at Yankee Stadium, nearly 62,000 fans sat in the stands waiting for Gehrig to address the crowd according to New York Daily News. It was known as "Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day", but something that is named "appreciation day" usually should be on a happy occasion. But not in this situation. A few weeks prior to this day,…

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. –Niels Bohr (Bohr n.d.) Who would have thought that technology could advance so heavily, in just 21 years? There were different means of technology in both wars, and all of them advanced from World War I to World War II. One of them was aerial warfare, as it became faster and more durable in World War II compared to World War I. Another was war at…