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Babe Ruth was one of the most influential players in baseball history. There are many reasons this is true. He was a player during the time where there were many scandals going on in the game and that truly hurt the game and that fan base. He was able to bring fans back to the game with his style, performance, passion, and character. He was an instantly likeable player that was able to draw fans into a game they had lost faith in. A game that had taken advantage of them and made them feel…

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…

“A Nursing Home or a Relative’s Home?” Process Paper I have often found myself attempting to formulate a thesis, knowing what my objective for the paper is, and yet, unable to form the sentence that could possibly set the tone for the rest of it. It is sometimes said that it should raise questions, allow for discussion, and must always summarize the entire paper in a sentence or two. I may have all of my ideas, and what points I intend to make written out, but I still struggle to form a proper…

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…

Journal Assignment #2 As a new nurse, I started working in a local hospice agency located near my house. Among the duties I performed as hospice nurse include calling patients and their families to follow up on their conditions. One of the patients that I needed to check up on regularly was Mrs. L.J., an 82-year-old Lebanese woman residing in a skilled nursing facility (SNF). She had been admitted to the hospice from an oncology medical center and had been a hospice patient for less than a week.…

The game was against our district rival Englewood High School and it was a nail biter. We had played them earlier in the season and we won so we had confidence coming into the game. It was a win or go home situation. Both teams were playing hard and giving it all they had. I remember like it was yesterday. It was bottom of the sixth inning and we had a runner on second base, score was tied 1-1. Tony tells the runner on second base to steal. The runner…

Students are constantly asked, ever since a young age, the question of “what do you want to be when you grow up”, and this is a question that happens to encompass life. The idea of deciding a major just happens to be the first stepping-stone into the “real world”. Diving head first into the world of majors can be a very terrifying place, but that’s why many explore different pathways, to discover one’s true calling, one’s niche. While I am unsure about my future endeavors, I would like to think…

Ernest Jünger’s memoir Storm of Steel details his experiences as a German officer on the Western Front during World War I. Jünger eagerly volunteers for military service and is deployed in 1915 to a reserve unit in Champagne. Throughout the course of the war, Jünger works his way up through the ranks until he becomes an officer. He fought hard, was impressed only by soldiers’ bravery and in the end won an award for his efforts. His first person narrative painfully depicts the harsh realities of…

The Chosen by Chaim Potok describes an unexpected friendship between two people. Daniel “Danny” Saunders and Reuven Malter were playing baseball against each other when Danny’s pitch hit Reuven in the eye. It shattered Reuven’s glasses and left him with a piece of glass in his eye. While Reuven was in the hospital, Danny went to visit him and that’s where their friendship began. Because they are friends, Reuven helps Danny from quitting on his dreams of becoming a psychologist. With a little bit…

In the movie Moneyball (based on the book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis), Billy Beane attempts to form a competitive baseball team for Oakland Athletics by assembling undervalued talent through a sophisticated approach of Sabermetrics. As demonstrated in the movie, a strong team can be built with empirical analysis of the game, answering objective questions and making data based decisions in athletic recruitment as against prejudice, wisdom and gut instincts. The…