Pitcher

Part of the aura surrounding Ruth arose from his modest origins. Though the legend that he was an orphan is untrue, Ruth did have a difficult childhood. Both his parents, George Herman Ruth, Sr., and Kate Shamberger Ruth, came from working-class, ethnic (German) families. Ruth, Sr., owned and operated a saloon in a tough neighbourhood on the Baltimore waterfront. Living in rooms above the saloon, the Ruths had eight children, but only George, Jr., the firstborn, and a younger sister survived to…

Million Dollar Arm is the kind of sports movie that crams everything subject-specific into quick-cut montages to make room for maudlin drama and fish-out-of-water comedy—a baseball flick where no one is actually shown playing baseball. It offers plenty of sideline pleasures—like seeing Jon Hamm do his disaffected Don Draper stare while watching Susan Boyle’s performance on Britain’s Got Talent—and a gaping hole in its center. Into this hole it tosses redemption arcs, romantic comedy cutesiness,…

the ground. This is the last inning, just finish the game and it will all be over, I told myself. I turned it into my own little mantra, a pep talk to finish the game. “Play Ball!”, I called out mustering up what little energy I had left. The pitcher wound up and delivered the first pitch of the seventh inning. The ball sailed in, skipped in the dirt, and bounced across the plate amidst a cloud of dust. My arm raised up and my mouth started to call the dreaded word. I tried to stop the…

Such as in chapter five Curley’s Wife tells Lennie, “ Nother time met a guy, an he was in pitchers. He says he was gonna put me in the movies. Says I was a natural. Soon’s he got back to Hollywood he was gonna write to me about it but I never got that letter.” (pg. 88) This shows that she wasn’t able to be put in the movies and become an actress…

Imagine yourself as a mental illness patient just a day; the following question is how people around you will treat you? Especially, your own family. Silver water contains a story of Rose, a schizophrenia patient. We accept details in the whole story from rose’s sister, Violet. The story begins to take place when rose was fifteen years old; her mental illness began to break down. Although her father literally is a psychiatrist, the first person who realized that Rose was about to goes off is her…

Breaking my nose playing baseball is my worst memory of ever playing the sport. It hurt like nothing I’ve ever felt before, and I didn’t even know what happened. At first, I had no clue what had happened. When I was ten, I signed up to play for my first select baseball team. They were from Waterloo and called the Blue Diamonds. I was only okay with playing for them because my friend Sam played with me. They had the tryouts in August, and we both made the team. We were a pretty good team and we…

¨World series all coming down to this single pitch, for all that hard work put in could finally pay off, possible world series MVP? You'll find out after you read Throwing Strikes. In ¨ Throwing Strikes¨ by R.A Dickey, the book includes 296 pages, a 1st person story, and also has a genre of nonfiction,sports, and biography. While reading this book, you won't be able to stop flipping pages. The story is worth all the time in the world and this book will keep you on the edge of your seat from the…

There are over 100 million different job options in the world. After you graduate you have to decide one of those 100 million jobs. That’s what is tough about life, but on the other hand you have a huge gap between what you would like to have. I have three jobs that I would love to pursue once I get older. The first job I would like to have is being a high school baseball coach and a math teacher. I would love to be a coach because I have been playing baseball since I was four. I have loved…

to keep pushing. So I did. At the next game I was pail in the face and wasn't very steady on my feet, but I did it. I thought I was going to faint because I was so hot and dehydrated. Did I mention it was about 100 degrees at that time, anyway our pitcher threw the ball to me I couldn't see it and it hit me in the face. Got a bloody nose and I felt like I had just died we took about 15 minutes and then I was ready. Coach didn't want to put me back in but I had…

His death was the best way to go for a wonderful all round person, sports fan, farmer, and especially grandpa. I was his first grandchild with him almost missing my birth when he had some errands to run, but my grandma told him she wasn’t missing her first grandchild's birth. He was an amazing person and always showed love and care for everybody even with his stubbornness. He came to every game no matter where the game or tournament took place. Like in Tuesdays with Morrie written by Mitch…