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1. Bibliography: Green, Shawn and McAlpine, Gordon. The Way of Baseball. New York, New York: Simon and Schuster Paperbacks, 2011. 224 pages 2. Title: The title is The Way of Baseball. It is significant because it tells you about baseball and how you can find stillness and what to do when you have found stillness. 3. Characters: Shawn Green is the protagonist who plays in the MLB some of his personality traits would be hard working, frustrated, and ambitious. Some of his physical characteristics…

Baseball is a strong game and involves a few easy things to play. The most important thing to use when playing the game of baseball is a bat. There are so many bats out there; small barrels, big barrels, even a few of everything on the bat is a barrel, but a few of my favorite bats and the more probably used bats throughout baseball is the Demarini vs. Marucci. These two bats are very well used and that's because they are the best bats put together. Let's start with Demarini. Demarini has been…

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…

Cross Bloom Composition 1 Mrs. Rowles April 21, 2017 Baseball vs. Softball Baseball and Softball have many fans in each of the sports. Many players prefer to play one or the other but never both games. Baseball and softball can be very similar in various ways, but they have many differences as well. In both baseball and softball the games are enjoyed about the world, but in many different ways. The speed of the two games and how they are played, the rules for each game, and the different…

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender. That is strength.” This Was once said by Arnold Schwarzenegger. Wyatt Hoffman’s mentality is like a Emperor penguin no matter how harsh the conditions are he perseveres day in and day out this is the mentality that he has when he goes through any workout or sport. Every day in any conditions. Wyatt Hoffman has to be able to conquer live challenges like school…

The Journey to Team Louisiana Sweeping through the state tournament, on our way to the world series in Bluffton, South Carolina, until we run into the best team in the tournament. They put 10 runs on us in the 1st inning. All I can say is good thing it is double elimination. Waking up the next morning to a Bossier City, Louisiana was brutal. Nobody wanted to wake up on that bright and early morning and remember the horrific loss to JPRD. We had to forget about it, someone had to step up, and…

Breaking my nose playing baseball is my worst memory of ever playing the sport. It hurt like nothing I’ve ever felt before, and I didn’t even know what happened. At first, I had no clue what had happened. When I was ten, I signed up to play for my first select baseball team. They were from Waterloo and called the Blue Diamonds. I was only okay with playing for them because my friend Sam played with me. They had the tryouts in August, and we both made the team. We were a pretty good team and we…

Strike three the umpire yelled as the teams ran back to their dugouts. The first day I went to practice was one of the most nerve wracking things I’ve ever done. But the a kid walked up to me all exited and was ready to play some baseball. This made me feel a little bit better that I was feeling. Reason I love baseball so much is because I got to meet new people and it made me more social towards other people then I also figured out a sport that I really love. I finally had something to…

My favorite baseball player is Rod Carew and I decided to read the book he wrote about himself as a kid and as a ballplayer. In the beginning of the book Rod talks about his life growing up in Panama and how he did not have a lot of money. In the middle of the novel Rod talks about his career for the Minnesota Twins and what it was like to become a professional ballplayer. Towards the end of the book Rod talks about the end of his tenure with the Twins and him joining his new team the California…

The leader I chose is Babe Ruth. Babe broke many baseball records throughout his life time. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland on February sixth, 1895, and died in Manhattan, New York City, NY, on August sixteenth , 1948. He went to St. Mary’s School. Babe’s first Major League was as a left handed pitcher for the Boston Red Sox from 1914 to 1920. During 1920 he traded over to the New York Yankees. Babe Ruth’s real name is George Herman Ruth Jr. Babe was sent to St. Mary’s Catholic School at…