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Baseball is America’s pastime. Little boys play catch and grow up dreaming of playing in the World Series. Families have picnics on the grass and watch a church baseball game. Friends plan a trip to a Major League game and share in the excitement. Ballplayers travel the country together while playing the game they love, becoming friends and often family. God created humanity for community and fellowship, which is a perfect opportunity for baseball. The characteristics of baseball players often…

A major role of practicing healthcare professionals in today’s society is their moral and ethical approaches to a patient’s overall care. In this specific case, Martha Rogers, an 85-year-old gerontology patient, was admitted to a psychiatric unit of the hospital due to confusion and increasing irritability. Following evaluation, healthcare providers found she was dehydrated which may have caused some of the symptoms that she was undergoing; Mrs. Rogers, however, became calm and cooperative with…

1973 as a part-time first baseman for the New York Mets. He then worked as a part-time hitting coach with the Mets until 1979. He was the first ballplayer with more than 3,000 hits and 500 home runs in his career. Mays won two National League (NL) Most Valuable Player (MVP) awards, ended his career with 660 home runs - third at the time of his retirement and currently fifth all-time - and won a record-tying 12 Gold Glove awards beginning in 1957 when the award was introduced. Mays shares the…

“It is hard to beat a person who never gives up.” –Babe Ruth. This is a famous quote that Babe Ruth said. Baseball is a very interesting sport. The founders is Abner Doubleday, he founded it in 1839. It is still to this day one of the most famous sport in America.3 top rules in baseball is 3 strikes you’re out , 4 balls is a walk, and foul balls. Strikes are 1 of the pitches that can be called in game. Strikeouts are when 3 strikes are called. In a game you cannot argue strikes or you will be…

those reasons, you deal with it, and keep going out and playing hard like we did and eventually we’ll get back on a nice streak,” Maddon told reporters. Despite the loss, the Cubs did show some life with the wood. Anthony Rizzo had four hits and was a home run away from hitting for the cycle. The effort raised his batting average to .290. Jason Heyward also got involved from the batter’s box with 3 hits. Throughout the last four games he has gone 8 for 17 and has also raised his batting average…

death (Vankin, 2010). The fourteen chapters in the graphic memoir discussed topics that most people fear and deny, the aging process. Farmers’ father Lars and stepmother Rachel experience dementia, hoarding, depression, lack of medical care, nursing home issues, and death. I am a little perplexed why Farmer created the avatar Laura representing herself as the daughter in the graphic memoir when the story is about parents. Is Farmer reflecting on her experience as a caretaker or distancing…

Whether it be riding to Citi Field to watch my Mets play on a warm May night, or sitting on the couch at home, watching baseball has always been my favorite pastime. And a few years ago, I was introduced to an element of baseball that involves another passion of mine, mathematics. The study of the utterly distinct, yet blissful marriage of baseball and mathematics is known as sabermetrics, and it has brought my love of baseball to a new level. “Sabermetricians,” attempt to analyze baseball from…

Ever since I can remember baseball has been a part of my life in one way or another. My father's favorite sport has always been baseball and since the day I was born it has been growing on me as my favorite as well. Everything about baseball is what makes it so special to me, the time and length of the season, the beautiful fields and complexes, and the atmosphere of the games. I started playing baseball when I was about five years old and even though it was just me and my teammates hitting a…

I live in a world of crazy numbers and fancy acronyms, the world of sabermetrics. Originally defined by Bill James in 1980, sabermetrics is "the search for objective knowledge about baseball", yet the term has grown into much, much more. Sabermetrics give ordinary people like me, the tools to predict the future, to forecast the worth of a human being with a couple of intricate formulas and a pinch of extrapolation. It appeared to be magic when I first learned about the masses of statistics…

On September 30, 1927, Babe Ruth hits his 60th home run of the 1927 season and with it sets a record that would stand for 34 years. (Cremer pg 89) Babe Ruth was born February 7, 1844. Author's last name is Creamer. I think he is important because he currently holds the home run record in baseball history. Ruth was raised in a poor waterfront neighborhood in Baltimore “biography.com” At the age of 7, the trouble-making Ruth became too much of a handful for his busy parents. “Biography.com” At the…