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Who is Babe Ruth? Babe Ruth is known as the greatest baseball player of all time. In his successful career as a baseball player Babe Ruth is recognized for his record breaking accomplishments. Babe Ruth was born on February 6th, 1895 in Baltimore, Maryland. He was the son of George Herman Ruth and Kate Schamberger one of eight children. When did his baseball career take place? Babe Ruth was 19 years old when he was launched into his very successful baseball career. He first played in the big…

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…

Revisions Do you know who was the first African American to play in the MLB? And got inducted into the Hall of Fame.Jackie Robinson is the first person who accomplished all of these achievements and more. He was one of the greatest baseball player to ever play. Jackie Robinson had a tough childhood when he was young. He was born in 1919 in Cairo, GA. He was born the youngest of his brothers and sisters. He had three brothers and two sisters. And he was the youngest out of all five of…

Throughout The Natural, Bernard Malamud shows that Roy Hobbs is the utmost ambitious individual by portraying him as a poor man with one goal; make it to Major League Baseball. A question quickly becomes prominent throughout the first few chapters, we see Roy Hobbs struggle in the journey to the Majors, but he finally makes it and we ask ourselves, “Is Roy Hobbs a hero?” In this abstract, I will present to you multiple moments and scenes throughout Roy Hobbs’ journey into, and through, the major…

Jack “Jackie” Roosevelt Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia on January 31, 1919. He was the son of Jerry and Mallie Robinson, and was accompanied by four other siblings. His parents were not very wealthy at all, working as tenant farmers until the couple split and Mallie was left to work as a maid. She did just enough to provide for her children, and it showed throughout their high school careers. While most of her children became very successful, Jackie could be considered her biggest…

wOBA is considered one of the best stats to quantify batting performance. But what is most likely to contribute to wOBA? Is it more important to have a strong BB/K rate or to produce on balls thrown in the strike zone that are put into play? Is production when hitting fly balls more important than hitting ground balls and if so by how much? In order to determine this, I used 2013-2015 data from ESPN Stats and Information and Pitch FX to see what correlates best with overall wOBA. The first test…

Super Bowl LI just happened this past Sunday. The Atlanta Falcons v. the New England Patriots. The Falcons started off strong in the first half ending it with them leading 21-3. Coming into the 3rd quarter, Atlanta scored a touchdown on their first drive, but the Patriots came brought a fight. New England tied up with Atlanta by the end of the 4th quarter, 28-28. In overtime, the Patriots scored and won the game, 34-28. The producers of Super Bowl LI did a great job overall. Now it’s my turn to…

My mother tells the story how I fell in love with dance by starting by describing the first time I saw the Nutcracker ballet. I pointed to the stage and said, “I want to do that.” I was a toddler and I found my passion. From that moment all the way to my freshman year of college, I thrived on the dedication and joy that ballet brought to my life. Spending my dance career from age three to nineteen studying ballet, I decided to expand my dance training. Trying out for my college’s dance team…

Raelyn Hoffmann Davis Purple 1 20 April, 2016 Mark McGwire Breaks the Home Run Record September 8th, 1998; many of you may remember this date by a birthday or an anniversary, but this day was more than that. This date was a great day in history where a hero was born and a legend was created. September 8th, 1998 represents the day that Mark McGwire broke the record for the most home runs in a single season. “The 1998 Major League Baseball home run chase in Major League Baseball was the race…

The Lifelong Journey To World Championships Albert Bluford “Rube” Walker was born May 16th, 1926 in Lenoir into a poor family. His father would bring home string every day from his job and wrap it around a golf ball until it was the size of a baseball so the children would have baseballs to play with. Despite not having a legitimate, so to speak, baseball to play with Walker showed potential in his childhood. Walker grew up a hardworking individual working on his family’s farm in order to…