Pitcher

How The Civil War helped formed Baseball into the great game that it is today. In this paper I will start with telling you how baseball began and where it originated from. Then I will tell you about the original rules , equipment, and uniforms. Then I will finish up by saying how the game has changed from then and now. Nobody is really sure how baseball got started many say it has roots to the English game called Rounders. The one big difference between baseball and rounder is that in rounders…

It was crooked from the start. On October 1, 1919, in the bottom of the first inning of the first game, White Sox ace pitcher, Eddie Cicotte, struck leadoff batter Morrie Rath. This signaled a consortium of gamblers that "the fix was in," as Chicago players had agreed to throw the World Series in exchange for various sums of money. Eddie Cicotte, Claude “Lefty” Williams, Joe “Shoeless”Jackson, Oscar “Happy” Felsh, Arnold “Chick” Gandil, Charles “Swede” Risberg, Oscar “Buck” Weaver, and Fred…

The first game had Eddie Cicotte as the starting pitcher, which is the player that throws the ball to the people who are batting, for the Chicago White Sox. It seemed like the Sox would win that day because, as previously mention, Eddie Cicotte had won 29 games prior to the playoffs. However, the Reds ended up winning the first game of the series with a score of 9 to 1. Everyone was shocked about how badly the White Sox had played that day. Cicotte’s level of play was not what it usually was. A…

The Stick Of The Man Eaters . Is about how these two lions, and how they killed 75 men. In the other story it talked about how a man named Richardson, was able to be with grown lions and live. There is a man that can take lions for walk’s. In the pitcher he is playing with a lot of lions . “One morning Richardson hugged a lion , and answered his phone.”The two righters who wrote thees is Lauren Tarshis and Susan Orlean . The similarities between the stories Attack Of The Man Eaters and…

than a football field and it had batting cages in it. So my grandma and grandpa left to go do some shopping for the five days we were down there. It started at eight and ended at three so basically a whole school day of having fun and catching the pitchers. My brother and I got put in the same group of catchers so that was nice. So the day was done and my guardians came and got us took us back to the hotel to eat lunch and take a shower. After that we went out to the college book store my…

A Bull Pen means one of two things. A. An enclosure for bulls. B. An exercise area for baseball pitchers. Now I am not completely sure what similarities a couple of people warming up and a couple of 900 hundred pound bulls have. But Mr. Pettit has created a new definition. A ring in thick grass where x amount of bicyclists go head to head where the last one vertical is the victor. To me this seems a more appropriate definition. Every year we do this. Pettit says go around the campus…

For a long time, little was known about this mysterious civilization that lived many years ago. With what we found in the tombs of the Etruscans tells us a lot of how they lived and what they believed in. The Etruscans had an obsession with the burial of their dead. This tells us a lot of how they thought and how they perceived death. Historians learned a lot about this ancient civilization from inscriptions and what they discovered in many of the Etruscan tombs. There are many known…

It’s your right You’re at a football game and you don’t stand for the national anthem, you do this in protest of racial inequality and the police brutality of your people. This was the case of the San Francisco 49ers player Colin Kaepernick. There is an article based on his decisions and the decisions of other famous athletes that have made protest by simply not doing something. There are two sides to this article, the pro side presents the fact that Kaepernick is keeping the racial topic…

tournament, and he worked very hard to achieve that goal. Before,golf Jordan had many other passions. Jordan was a strong quarterback for football. He played basketball as a excellent point guard. Jordan was also interested in baseball which he was a pitcher. His younger brother steven plays division one basketball, and he is on the Brown Bears and is #3. Jordan had to make some sacrifices for golf. But overall he is a excellent golfer and always will. He will most likely in the future he…

game at all costs. The bottom of the seventh inning and the teams prepare to go into extra innings until Amanda hits a triple. With two outs, the coach tells her that he wants her to steal home as he is going to have the batter bunt the ball. The pitcher throws the ball and Amanda takes off at full speed into home, sliding under the tag and winning the…