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Which bat has more “pop” wood or aluminum? For my science project I will be investigating the pop of two baseball bats: wooden and aluminum. The “pop” is how fast the ball comes of the bat. This project will help me better understand which bat is better. One thing we have to find is where the sweet spots are in each bat. In this case it would be wood and aluminum. The reason why I choose this project is because I love baseball. I said to myself “why don’t I make a project about baseball,…

Steroid Use in Sports Steroids in sports in the last 10 years have gotten out of control. They have tried to monitor them but it hasn’t worked out. Steroid testing should be monitored more in all sports because it gives players who use steroids an unfair advantage and creates health issues. One of the biggest issues about steroids is how the drugs give players an unfair advantage. The use of PED’s or performance enhancing drugs is a huge issue. (Issitt) Richard Pound stated, “Remember that…

The project that choose to do was a softball field how I am going to make this project is by having the, Nucleus be in charge of the manger for the softball field and if the manager left then we would have nobody in charge because tectonically we don’t need a manger for that time period of the games because everyone would be doing there own thing at their field so we really don’t need a manager at the field.The Mitochondria will be in control of the lights so that when it gets dark the lights…

I have a great passion for the sport of baseball. I need to perform at my highest ability so the team can play at their greatest potential. I need to push myself in order to play the best, which is why I set my goal: to push myself and become the best I can. For my goal, I want to become an all-conference baseball player for pitching. There are multiple reasons why I selected this goal. First, I love baseball. I wanted to pick a goal I had passion for. I want to play at a high level in…

My coach running towards me my head hurting ears ringing he helped me up, because i got hit in the head by a baseball. So I started walking to first base my head hurt a lot my coach told me if I could still run I told him yeah. So I stood on the base my friend was up next to bat. He hit the ball hard and I had to run to second base when I slid the kid in the other team kicked me with his metal cleats on my leg. Again my coach had to run towards me this is when I thought it was on purpose. I have…

“Be the change that you want to see in the world”~ Ghandi. Jackie Robinson saw a problem in the world that’s gone unsolved for quite some time now. Professional baseball has been a white man’s game for a while now. Robinson wanted to break the color barrier in professional baseball, so he went on to try out for the Brooklyn Dodgers and he did start to play. Robinson was treated as less than human whenever he made an appearance, but he did not abscond from his problems, he fought to surmount…

Major League Profits Do you deserve to receive the money that you are responsible for earning? The majority (if not all) people would answer “yes.” This concept applies to the athletes inside the professional sports world. Just as a major business man would earn a high salary for a big company, these men and women do the same. With everything else put aside, the sports industry is essentially a business, and businesses and its workers perform to make money. These athletes are great sources of…

Despite being an incredibly profitable $10 billion dollar enterprise, MLB baseball certainly has its share of issues. And no one associated with the game on that level will tell you any different. There is one dispute, however, that it doesn’t have as its annual spring training comes to a close – at the core of the game – it’s all about hope. Like spring itself; the advent of the baseball season, akin to the Lenten season it always coincides with, symbolizes a much needed renewal. Baseball…

The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of the Bronx. The Yankees compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East division. The Yankees are one of two Major League clubs based in New York City; the other is the New York Mets. The club began play in the AL in the 1901 season as the Baltimore Orioles (not to be confused with the modern Baltimore Orioles.) Frank Farrell and Bill Devery purchased the…

Prior to the years of 1947, the color barrier in the game of major league baseball remained the same. White. Around that year, a movement began in attempt to integrate the sport. The president of the Brooklyn Dodgers, Branch Rickey, looked for a player that had honor, integrity, athletic skills and discipline. Emphasis on how a player was picked with the self-control to not fight back when times were unfair. That player picked was a Black American named Jackie Robinson. Having a strong…