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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 record…

Thanks to me and my buddy Jared Potts, we had the best outfield record in the whole Khoury league area. I played center because I was the one who would run from left field to catch the ball over in right field because we had that one guy who really didn’t care about the game. Most of the time my coach would have me pitching, to him I was known as a secret weapon. I was the only lefty on the team and I…

Such as the explosion in home run hitting between the 1990s and early 2000s. This was “highlighted in 1998 by the home-run race between Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire, both whom used steroids (Chafets 21). Although several players have been caught for drug use, there are still players to consider that haven’t been revealed or questioned…

Alaniz 1 Baseball has been around for centuries. Baseball is also known as America’s pastime. Baseball was branched off from many different sports as in, stoolball, cricket, and cat and dog. Some may ask “what is cat and dog, and what does it have to do with baseball?” Cat and dog is a game that was originated in Scotland where a piece of wood called cat, is thrown at a hole in the ground while another player tries to defend the hole with a stick called a dog. Odd, but interesting. Cricket on…

perfection and greatness in bats. Marucci bats are made as a one piece. Meaning that they are just all one barrel all the way from handle to top of bat. This is just giving more power to the bat and giving the bat more “pop”. I used a marucci not to long ago, even in high school and I really liked it and would use one to this day if I needed too. When using a marucci bat, you will notice a lot of sounds and vibration throughout the bat. My favorite bat from marucci is the “All White/soft handle/…

Baseball has long been seen as an integritous union in a world of flawed sports, being dubbed by some as a “gentlemen’s game”. However baseball has a somewhat troubling past, including many people who have cheated the game and even been celebrated for it. In fact, the…

Blood seeps toward Stephanie, under the bed. The creature strokes her face. It is a QALLUPILUK. It has webbed-fingers, and an amphibian like quality, a stiff, mask-like face that seems somewhat like a stereotypical alien, with fish-like gills, long hair, and an effeminate quality. The Qallupiluk leans down over Sarah, but we see only its hair as it seems to…

She won it without the help of Huey Long. He was assassinated in 1935. She opposed Lend Lease, because she feared it could lead to war. She did much to help the grieving relatives of war victims once World War II was declared. In 1944, she lost the Democratic primary for her third term. But…

The literary element that is most prominent and most significant in Moneyball by Michael Lewis is the plot structure that he uses throughout the book. Lewis use of plot makes the book both more enjoyable to read and at the same time allows you to envision yourself throughout the book as if you were side-by-side with all of the characters as they went through life and the season. Michael Lewis uses the plot structure to his advantage by starting off with meeting Billy Beane as a first-round…

Studies such as Blasco and Sinkey (2006), De Nicolo et al., (2003) and Mamnasoo and Mayes (2009) have found that an increase in percentage of loan to total assets is positively correlated with an increase in non-performing loans, insolvency due to long-term bank mismanagement, greater liquidity risk due to banks inability to accommodate decrease in liabilities or fund increases on the asset side of the balance sheet. Therefore, we expect a positive relationship between the relative percentage of…