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Baseball is America’s pastime. Little boys play catch and grow up dreaming of playing in the World Series. Families have picnics on the grass and watch a church baseball game. Friends plan a trip to a Major League game and share in the excitement. Ballplayers travel the country together while playing the game they love, becoming friends and often family. God created humanity for community and fellowship, which is a perfect opportunity for baseball. The characteristics of baseball players often…

A major role of practicing healthcare professionals in today’s society is their moral and ethical approaches to a patient’s overall care. In this specific case, Martha Rogers, an 85-year-old gerontology patient, was admitted to a psychiatric unit of the hospital due to confusion and increasing irritability. Following evaluation, healthcare providers found she was dehydrated which may have caused some of the symptoms that she was undergoing; Mrs. Rogers, however, became calm and cooperative with…

“It is hard to beat a person who never gives up.” –Babe Ruth. This is a famous quote that Babe Ruth said. Baseball is a very interesting sport. The founders is Abner Doubleday, he founded it in 1839. It is still to this day one of the most famous sport in America.3 top rules in baseball is 3 strikes you’re out , 4 balls is a walk, and foul balls. Strikes are 1 of the pitches that can be called in game. Strikeouts are when 3 strikes are called. In a game you cannot argue strikes or you will be…

What is something you will sacrifice your time and effort for? What is something you can do for hours on end without getting tired of? What is something you get excited about just talking about it? If I were to ask you what your passion is in this world, what would come to your mind? If you were to ask me, it would be baseball without a doubt. Because baseball is my passion, it has changed my life significantly. Baseball has put me in a wonder situation in my life right now. As a little kid, I…

Softball has always been a favorite past time of mine. The heat from the summer days, the smell and taste of Gatorade and sunflower seeds always bring me to the memory of playing softball. Merriam Webster Dictionary defines softball as a sport that is similar to baseball but that is played on a smaller field and with a ball that is pitched underhand and that is larger and softer than a baseball When playing softball, you have to have a glove for catching, a bat for batting, cleats for playing…

death (Vankin, 2010). The fourteen chapters in the graphic memoir discussed topics that most people fear and deny, the aging process. Farmers’ father Lars and stepmother Rachel experience dementia, hoarding, depression, lack of medical care, nursing home issues, and death. I am a little perplexed why Farmer created the avatar Laura representing herself as the daughter in the graphic memoir when the story is about parents. Is Farmer reflecting on her experience as a caretaker or distancing…

Ever since I can remember baseball has been a part of my life in one way or another. My father's favorite sport has always been baseball and since the day I was born it has been growing on me as my favorite as well. Everything about baseball is what makes it so special to me, the time and length of the season, the beautiful fields and complexes, and the atmosphere of the games. I started playing baseball when I was about five years old and even though it was just me and my teammates hitting a…

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…

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…