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I was at the baseball field and it was a tuesday that night. It was cloudy with a chance of rain. I was in the dugout out and we just got done with taking grounder. I was talking with my team mate Dawson and he was having fun. Then the coach comes in and says were taking batting practice and I was pitching and Dwain,Grant,and Sam were batting. Grand came up and I thought him a few pitches and then I hit him. It may or may not been on purpose and he is bad because he wanted everyone…

It was game day and all I could hear from the right of my ear was “STRIKE HIM OUT!!!” My left I could feel every stomp and scream run through my body like if it was about to explode. As I release the last pitch of the game I could see the batter looking at the ball as if it was a fireball coming right at him. Once that ball hit the glove I could smell the burnt wood from the bat missing the ball by inches. My teammates were running toward me and screaming at the top of their lungs. In the game…

The first course I am going to talk about is a more modern golf course with a lot of edginess, Whistling Straits. When the course was first being erected, everyone knew that it was going to be something special because of the world renown designer undertaking the project, Pete Dye. Nonetheless there was skepticism about the golf courses potential, considering they were going for a rugged and sloping style course and it was being constructed from a low lying, pancake flat, abandoned, military…

Marketing strategists work for years developing commercial stores with the intention to make sure there is appropriate curb appeal, the store gives a customer a unique experience, and leaves the customer satisfied. At Dicks Sporting Goods they have mastered their interior design to enhance customer experience by creating mini sanctuaries though out their store. The golf section in particular is a unique area of the store as it offers a much more contemporary and luxurious design to cater to the…

It was Saturday lunchtime. The hot summer sun beat down on the faces of the families in the stands during the last Little League game of the season. Moms, finding comfort in the familiar faces of friends forged through three months of uncomfortable green bleachers, bee stings and sunburns, chatted casually about the back-to-school sales for the upcoming year. A handful of men, still intently focused on the games, paced by the backstop, shouting advice to their progeny, perhaps envisioning a…

a conviction. The Ohio Supreme Court upheld Mapp’s conviction. The American Civil Liberties Union filed an amicus brief on behalf of Mapp to the Supreme Court. Issue Can evidence obtained in violation the Fourth Amendment be used in state courts? Rule The Fourth Amendment protects individuals against unreasonable searches and seizures of their persons, houses, and effects. Wolf v. Colorado (1949)…

On March 23, 2009 Japan outlasted South Korea to take home its second consecutive World Baseball Classic. After easily defeating Cuba three years earlier, this time it took extra innings to defeat the South Korean squad. The early star was Seattle Mariner pitcher Hisashi Iwakuma. Iwakuma limited the South Korean bats to only a pair of earned runs on four hits. One of the four hits off Iwakuma was a 5th inning homerun by fellow Major Leaguer, the Cleveland Indians outfielder Shin-Soo Choo.…

Potential variables in testing distance on golf balls as a result of dimple depth and dimple shape that need to be controlled are the type of golf ball, their construction, the type of golf club, the type of swing used, the tee height, wind, and the turf hit off of. In order to take care of the golf ball construction and type of golf ball, I will do extensive research on each ball. I will conduct my experiment at an indoor golf simulator where they can measure the trajectory of my shot, this…

“Easy-out!” I hear snickers from the opposing team, while my own team holds their breath. The pitcher rolls the ball towards my eight-year-old self, pity in their eyes. It skids towards me, and I kick it away, pathetically slowly. Just as they predicted, I am out. For the rest of the summer camp, I avoided all the kickball games in shame. For years afterward, I tried to avoid competition and conflict of any sort. I stayed away from card and board games, and when my classmates shrieked with…

Walk off. The most exciting play in baseball. The second the walk off ends, the game does subsequently, the only thing left to do is look back on how exciting the game was and of course, walk off the field... We’ve been taken out to the ballgame, we’ve eaten all the peanuts and crackerjack, we’ve root-root-rooted for the home team, and now the baseball season of 2012 was coming to an end. Lodi was coming to town. A team thinking back to the last time we played, they left the diamond on top 17-3…