Pitcher

There are a number of professionals and fellow biomechanics researchers that, through their experience and research results, have contributed to the academic knowledge and terminology that is contained in this thesis. The following is a brief overview of each of the persons and their specialities. Coach Sarah Krolick graduated with her degree in Kinesiology and Exercise Science, but she is currently the Cross Country Graduate Assistant for Southeastern University. She was a cross…

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…

In the Brothers K by David James Duncan the characters change a lot throughout the the book. One of the main characters in the book is Hugh. Hugh was born in Chicago in 1929. For the majority of this story he is in his early 40's. When he was a kid his father was a high school couch and his mother was a scientist. His mother wanted Hugh to go to collage but Hugh wanted to play professional baseball instead. During WWII Hugh's father went to Germany for fight in the war and was killed. Hugh has…

are involved in the movement. Of the six phases of pitching, arm cocking, acceleration and deceleration are the three phases when elbow and shoulder joints experience high magnitudes of forces (Oyama 83). Windup is the phase that occurs when the pitcher places the non-throwing hand is in front of the target. In the beginning of the arm cocking phase, the non-throwing shoulder is abducted and it’s elbow extends. The deltoid muscle is active during this phase (Houglum ,“An analysis of the…

Teddy Baker: The Big Defeat When I was younger I was a lanky boy in middle school, who could only dream of one day becoming an All-Star baseball player. The problem was, I could barely throw a pitch. I tried real hard to master it… trust me; I’m just not one for sports. This was the case ever since I was seven. But after six years, the suffering ended and I moved to Miami, Florida. Now, you’re most likely asking yourself, “How is moving going to replace your bad talent?” Well, let me tell you.…

Neil found Billy in an alley after he received a phone call about him. “He started hitting me right off” (Carter63). Another challenge Neil overcame was when he and Jeff struggled to find a starting pitcher for the team. They had no idea who to look to but when the new foreign exchange student arrives, they think that she has mega potential. Jeff and Neil spend a commendable amount of time trying to teach her how to pitch and hoping she would play in…

“Be remembered!” echoes through my mind every time I get up to bat. From Tee Ball to now, softball has made a huge impact on my life. Ever since I was 5 years old, I have been playing the game that I love the most. Imagine standing on a softball field expected to perform at the age of 5. Even though the butterflies in my stomach were fixing to start a war, nothing was going to stop me from stepping on that field to play my first tee ball game as a Little Tiger. Fans cheered, but what I…

I have played baseball ever since I was a young kid, but somehow, at seventeen I still had numerous struggles with it. You would think after my grandpa being drafted to the Pittsburgh Pirates, a Major League baseball team, and my dad getting a full ride to the University of Denver their skill would have rubbed off on me, but you would be wrong. I wasn't terrible, I could hit a 90 mile per hour fastball and I could, for the most part, field a ground ball. However, I was definitely not about to be…

sports like football or basketball where there is so called “non-stop action.” Not only is that false because sports like basketball and football have lots of breaks and pauses, but because baseball in its own way has “non-stop action.” When the pitcher is waiting for the sign from the catcher, you can look out and see the outfield adjusting to how the hitter might hit the ball, you see the manager planning on what to do in future innings, and you the fan can act as the catcher and think about…

summer afternoon around three o’ clock PM at J.D Redd Park. I was anxiously waiting in third base for the batter to approach the plate and smack the yarn covered ball just enough for me to make it to the home plate. As the sun hits my face I see the pitcher retract his right arm getting ready to throw it. As I see the ball leave the pitcher’s hand, I breathed in the humid air, making preparations to sprint as fast as I could and make it to the home plate. Before I could even gather my thoughts…