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Baseball has been America’s favorite pastime for nearly 150 years, and though the specifics of the game have evolved, the overarching physics allowing the ever-popular sport to achieve the exciting feel it boasts, has not. How well a baseball is hit depends on four factors: angle of contact, location of contact, bat speed, and pitch speed. By looking into the forces of physics that dictate this well-known sport, I hope to gain a better understanding of how and why hitting a baseball works and…

Since I was a little girl everyone told me I was the most gifted child they have ever seen in sports, and when I’m of age I will be going places. Through the years of hearing people telling me this; I too started to believe the statements just as much as they did. One day a life changing event took place. I was in the dugout looking at the red softball dirt spread in the field; imagining how the game will go and how I couldn’t wait for college. Soon the game started and the bats started swinging…

white Sox. The format used for the series was the best of nine format. Seven players from the White Sox were banned from organized baseball for fixing the series. Gambling had been a presence in baseball long before the Black Sox scandal, and the major league team owners had done little to limit its influence. Rumors of a fix circulated before, during, and after the 1919 series, but the White Sox owner, Charles Comiskey, chose not to investigate them. Prompted by concerns of several journalists…

of 1947 happened in America’s Pastime of Major League Baseball. In 1947, baseball was separated by skin color just like most places in the U.S. during this time. The whites played in the MLB while the blacks had their own league, the Negro League. This was how baseball was played until a man by the name of Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers team. If Robinson could become good enough to play in the MLB for the Dodgers, he would be the “major leagues’ first African-American player in 50…

It was a warm spring afternoon on April 26th 2015, around 5 pm. I was 13 at my 3rd all star district championship game, playing one of the best teams in our league. Nestled in the pines, under the hot scorching sun, I was on the dirt stained pitching mound. As I wiped the sweat from my brow I look up as Hunter walks up to the plate. Hunter was a good friend of mine who showed me the curve ball at baseball practice the following season before. Hunter was 6'2" tall, weighing around 180 pounds and…

Bobby said Berra looked like an Indian holy man when he sat with his arms and legs crossed, waiting to bat or looking sad after a defeat. In 1942 the Cardinals chose to sign Garagiola over Berra. The Yankees sent Berra to Norfolk, Virginia, to a minor league…

Jackie Robinson was the essential African yank ballplayer to play inside the Real Associations. He contends as a shortstop in his African yank class and was an astounding hitter and base hooligan. Each amusement, he would take a few bases while not acquiring got. His speed, strategy, and viewpoint helped him increase a few consideration from the most critical Associations. Amid this time, round the 1945's, blacks and whites weren't prepared to play with each other in any game or permitted to…

Some of my successes in life include winning baseball tournaments, getting voted into the allstars in my baseball league, being the youngest kid in colorado to get his license to hunt, and firing a 306 when i was 6 without my arm falling off. My 1st success in baseball was when i was 7 years old and my team was losing the championship game by 2 points, so when i got up to bat there was a guy on 3d base and on 2nd, we already had 2 outs so if i got out we lost the game here. So when i got up to…

The All American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) was founded by Philip K. Wrigley during World War II. Over six hundred women from around the United States played in this league while their loved ones fought in the war, earning them money and them being able to play the game they love. Several Major League executives created the AAGPBL to help them try to keep baseball in the publics eye. The AAGPBL helped bring these executives money to keep their stadiums open to the public so when…

Every year there are hundreds of kids that hope to be able to play baseball, and are willing to do anything they can to be able to play in the Major League one day, but their chances of making This description reveals that it is very hard to make it, so you have to be willing to give it all you have to make it. In order for an individual to gain success in baseball, they need to focus on becoming a better baseball player, understand the chances of making it big, and learn the steps of getting…