Strikeout

When I grow up I want to be a MLB baseball player there are many reasons why I want to and what position I want to play. When I grow I want to play professional baseball. I always wanted to play baseball since I was about 5. I used to like the cubs. Then, when I turned about 9-11 years old don’t know when exactly, but I became a Yankee fan. When I was in the kindergarten, I used to watch the cubs play and learn so much. I am actually the only Yankee fan in R.O.W.V.A elementary school, not sure…

In a game of failure, it’s only expected that failure would be around each corner. Every pitcher has a bad start, from Clayton Kershaw to a pitcher trying to make a level three team, I have found myself in this exact situation several times. At Lakewood High School around midsummer I was scheduled to pitch against one of the best teams we would see all season. This was Team Colorado. Not only was each pitch laboured but my arm was sore and my legs were weak. From the time I began my warm-up in…

alone in the world. He has his brother, Merrill, moves in to help Graham with his kids and his faith. Merrill is a former baseball player who could not make it professionally. Even though he holds five records, he also holds the worse being the most strikeouts, and therefore did not make the team. He shares when asked about it, that “it felt wrong not to swing” (Shyamalan). To further explain, Merrill is someone who always tries, he doesn’t give up. When he…

eventually started realizing based on his surroundings that book smart wasn’t going to get him anywhere." [When I got to college] I hated books and only cared for sports" (Graff 265). Graff found the Sports Illustrated magazines and the book Bob Feller Strikeout Story way more interesting than actual school. He felt as if his anti-intellectual choices enhanced his intellectual skills. Graff further explains, that based on what you know about street smarts can show a significant benefit to…

The director of the movie Signs M. Night Shyamalan presents a conflict about a man being tested with his faith. Shyamalan makes the characters struggle with the death of a family member and an alien invasion. Throughout the film he portrays two different types of philosophies. The protagonist Graham Hess is a reverend and is married to a woman Colleen. The secondary characters are their kids named Morgan and Bo. The Hess family lives on a farm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Colleen dies six…

on any number of different algorithms depending on what values you were looking for. For example, if someone were interested in who the most durable pitcher is that season, they may sort by innings pitched. If someone else thought the number of strikeouts was more valuable, that number could be the sort feature. Since there is no single set of statistics that every team uses, there’s no single algorithm that…

Identity is a very convoluted and confusing subject to many because it covers so many aspects of oneself, the way people view others, the social context and all the choices made during the growing period. Beverly Daniel Tatum wrote an article “The Complexity of Identity” to explain its construction using the many identities of oneself and the relationship between domination and subordination. When trying to identify oneself people usually ask the question who they are. It began a multitude of…

“We won, we won! I can't believe we are going to game seven of the World Series, Matt, we the Chicago Cubs, are going to a game seven of the World Series!" shouted Mike. "Mike we have to go celebrate, let's go to Molly's on the South Side!" exclaimed Matt. " Ok let's go we earned it but we still have to be ready for tomorrow so we can't get crazy," responded MIke. "I know!" yelled Matt. When they got to Molly's they sat down and ordered a drink. However,…

When someone says Major League Baseball, you probably think of all the teams and players. Cardinals, Padres, Dodgers, Reds, Clayton Kershaw, Joey Votto, etc. When you hear the word softball, you probably think of college teams or some even ask what softball is. Softball has become such a small sport because of baseball taking over. Although, I do not mind that, baseball is an amazing sport to play and watch. Softball is just the same and gets less credit. One person that is very famous in…

Leaving the Park In the spring of my seventh grade year, I exercised my final season of eligibility of little league baseball. Just avoiding the cutoff date by a week, I would be one of the few thirteen year olds to take the field. It would also be my first year of making the all – star team, a goal I had since I had first entered the major league division of Shaker Valley Little League three years prior. As a starting pitcher, I was pretty confident that I would finally get the chance to show…