Dugout

A Mile is His Shoes is a joyful movie about Mickey, a teenager who has Asperger's Syndrome, and his immense talents. Mickey lives a sheltered life on rural farm with his parents who are very protective over him due to his learning disability. Murph, a baseball coach, sees the great potential Mickey has to be a pitcher when he throws apples towards a hard surface and smashes them, feeding the family’s pigs. Mickey joins the River Rats, a small professional league team in Ohio, as a pitcher,…

After the outbreak of World War I with the Triple Entente of Britain, France, Russia, and Italy against the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire, President Woodrow Wilson of the United States had to decide upon the nation’s involvement in WWI. Wilson’s initial US neutrality policy was soon diverted after the German U-boat attacks on the British ocean liner RMS Lusitania, killing many Americans. Less than two years later, Great Britain intercepts a…

Dingers For Days “It’s a great night for baseball, the sun is going down, there is a slight breeze but it’s not strong enough to affect what the baseball is going to do. It’s the bottom of the 9th, the TIgers are down by one and Carter Ace is up to bat. He’s got two strikes on him and the next pitch is thrown and it looks like there’s heat behind it…..CRACK! It's going, going, going, and it's gone! Carter Ace hits the game winning dinger. The L.A Tigers win the championship game in regionals,…

Youth played quite a significant role in Germany from 1933 to 1945.Youth were important to Hitler and Germany as a whole. The reasons for believing this are as follows. The youth in 1933-45 were the next generation of Nazis even after the end of World War II. German school were training the children to be German nationalists like Hitler. Finally my last reason for believing that youth played a significant role in Germany from 1933-45 is that Germany’s education system was training them to hate…

“His dad, Harry, had a lot to do with it too teaching the youngster the meaning of the word drive” (Los Angeles Times n.pag). The word drive defined Roses baseball career, from hustling to first base after a walk to hustling to the dugout after the inning, Pete Rose would never stop trying to improve. Pete Rose moved through the ranks as a baseball player and the result was possibly the greatest baseball career ever. Roses first two seasons in the MLB were rough but he eventually overcame…

deal with the environmental problems regarding the Dust Bowl. The PFRA was established to focus on soil erosion and conservation, as well as lack of water conservation. It created emergency programs such as strip farming to help avoid erosion, and dugouts to be formed on the farm in order to conserve water for animals. PFRA was also involved in various projects to plant trees, conserve water, etc. The PFRA still exists to this day. The government also formed the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB), where…

You can fall victim to injustice without even knowing it. Logistically, baseball and softball are different sports, although seemingly similar. Confusing them as the same sport seems innocent enough, until you truly begin to understand the differences and why they exist. Baseball is for boys and softball is for girls, this is accepted as fact to a large portion of the American population. The girls’ sport is baseball, but softer. Softball was meant to provide an easier and less complicated…

On the eleventh of October 1939 the President Franklin Delano Roosevelt received a letter from the one and only Albert Einstein, which Albert Einstein had actually wrote on August 2 1939. The letter mentioned of a new field of physics that was showing that the element uranium could undergo nuclear fission, with the resultant release of a remarkable deal of energy. Ever since the Greek man named Democritus stated in the year of 450 B.C. that everything in existence is made of atoms, ever…

Jeremy, I did have a dream last night. I went around to different stores buying 12 plants, but James kept trying to helping me and following me around and I kept wondering where the fuck is Jeremy, like always. I even landed back in his apartment and his boyfriend’s stuff was everywhere, of course he kept trying to kiss me and the whole time I was basically yelling, “WHERE IS JEREMYYYY” ... “You have a boyfriend!!!” … “Where is JEREMY???” Hoping yes, you’d bust in and say, “Come on!” No, I…

Following the Battle of the Somme, Faulks describes the ‘crippled sleepers’ rising from the ground, saying that it resembled a ‘resurrection in a cemetery’ ; a simile which represents the fact that the men are now the living dead; their old lives have been stolen from them. Faulks anthropomorphises the soil, saying that the men ‘teemed up from the reluctant earth’ alluding that even nature has turned against the men. The characters Stephen and Weir discuss the atrocities which have occurred…