Dugout

“Potential”, the devils word I’ve never been a fan of the word “potential”, not potential energy, but rather someone’s possible ability to achieve something. Being told, you have so much potential if you just… or if you did… telling me I can make it if I just do what they say. In baseball, “You have the potential to hit a homerun every game if you just turn your hips and twist your foot as though you are squishing a bug”, I had dreamed of hitting a homerun, and when my coach said that to me, my…

Fifty years ago, on April 18, 1946, Jackie Robinson broke organized baseball's color barrier with a characteristic bang, homing and scoring four runs in a historic first game for the Brooklyn Dodgers' top farm team.In Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible wanted to show a version of McCarthyism. McCarthyism the is the practice of making unfair allegations or using unfair investigative techniques, especially in order to restrict dissent or political criticism . But instead of seeing people that have…

For as long as I can remember, I have always played as the left fielder in baseball. Playing this position was always easy for me. When I estimated the trajectory of a ball speeding through the air, I could always run to where I thought it would be and catch it. It was as if the outfield became my home, I was comfortable there. One day during practice, my coach told me to try and play as the first baseman. This position was so much more difficult than playing in the outfield. Switching to this…

“I’d get mad. But I’d never let them know it” is one of Jackie Robinson's famous quotes. At age 28, Robinson was the first black major league baseball player. He broke the color line in professional baseball and paved an entry for black players during his lifetime. He had more influence of integration of sports than any other athlete in history. Robinson helped influence colored people to go for what they want and enjoy. Baseball wasn’t the only thing that did not accept him at first, society…

area between us and the enemy which we call no man 's land, and just doing general repairs. Any effort of sleeping is during the day, yet I cannot seem to fall out of consciousness, any sounds jerks me awake, and I live in constant paranoia of my dugout collapsing. Many men are sickly; constantly hacking away and…

Martin called on his closer, Goose Gossage, to make the final out in the game. Brett took the second pitch he saw from Gossage and launched it into the right field seats, presumably giving the Royals a 5-4 lead. Billy Martin was on his way from the dugout before Brett crossed home plate and cited an obscure rule on the excessive use of pine tar on Brett’s Bat. At the time, Major League rules stated that the bat could not be covered with any substance more than 18 inches from the tip of the…

The narrative Private Peaceful, written by Michael Morpurgo, is a World War One novel set in the early 1900s across countryside towns in England, France and Belgium. It follows the story of Thomas ‘Tommo’ Peaceful and his close family. It thoroughly explores their struggles through life in the early 20th century, including World War One. Throughout the story, injustice is a recurring theme before and during the war. This is evident in the class system of the era which treats lower class citizens…

case. The first precedent case cited is Karen Friedman and Robert Friedman v. Houston Sports Association. In this case, the Friedmans were out at an Astros baseball game. They sat behind the first base dugout which was not a covered area. There were however, seats available behind the dugout were it was screened. The Astros were the defendants in the case since the incident happened in the Astrodome during an Astros game.…

They overpaid for a home that can be described as a cave. It was built into the ground and as Jim's grandmother described, "It's no better than a badger hole; no proper dugout at all" (Cather 13). Upon arrival, their home did not have a garden, as most of their land was of little value for farming. It also had a windmill with no wheel. It had a barn, however, their only animals were an oxen and two bony, old horses, all…

Athletic Trainer vs Professional Athlete “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life” (Confucius). Since my Senior year of high school is approaching. It is important of choosing a career I want to do for the remainder of my life. With my love of sports and medicine. I have decided to chose that Athletic trainer and Professional Athlete would be appropriate occupations for me. Although both Athletic trainers and Professional Athletes are similar in what the…