The Long Run

“Home Run!” The announcer yells as the crowd goes crazy. Babe Ruth has done it again folks. "He's the best of the best", the children yell. Some of you may be asking ,well, what is baseball . Baseball is Americas favorite pass time. It’s been that way since the 1920’s. This game of hitting a ball with a stick and hearing that sweet and beautiful crackle as the bat and the ball connects seems to put fire in people’s veins as they yell and cheer for their favorite team as they enter the field. The…

They are also built to have more power in them. In the picture to the above, the bat on the top, is ash wood, and the one on the bottom is maple wood. (Stamp). In 2001 a San Francisco Giants player named Barry Bonds set the record for the most home runs hit in a single season. This was a record that no one thought was beatable. When the word got out that the bat Bonds was using was made of maple everyone wanted a maple bat, because players copy other players success. All of a sudden there was a…

Christian D’Antonio Ms. Chakraborty Chemistry 21 25 March 2016 Research Paper Superpowers at Your Fingertips 9.79 seconds. 762 career home runs. 7 Tour De France wins. All of these statistics are extremely impressive, and one would think they would be world records. They were at one point. But former Olympic sprinter Ben Johnson, MLB baseball player Barry Bonds and cyclist Lance Armstrong all have admitted to using performance enhancing drugs (PEDs), also known as anabolic steroids, thus…

PEDs has always been in the mix when it comes to professional sports. Many athletes go to extreme levels to maximize their performance. The fans go to a sporting event to see an amazing home run, an incredible football tackle or the fastest sprinter in the world. One of the main reasons why PEDs are prohibited in professional sports is due to the fact that it's going to create an unfair advantage over the opponent. In my opinion, I think most athletes will use PEDs if they can get away with it.…

I actually had to work to get a spot on the team. Luckily in tryouts, I do not try to hit home runs and actually made solid hits. I have always excelled in my position, right field, with zero errors; I was slightly cocky. I would have been fully cocky if my throwing was a good as my ego was. Although I made the team, I was surrounded by amazing players…

single-season Homerun record. A-Rod has over 3,000 hits and is a 14-time All Star. David Ortiz is a 3-time world series champ. Jose Canseco is the first player to hit the 40-40 mark. (Simple Sentence) 40 home runs and 40 stolen bases in (prepositional) a single season. Ivan Rodriguez has the most home runs as a catcher. All of these MLB players have an asterisk next to their name on the lineup card. The asterisk does not mean that they are an all star; it means that they have been caught using…

Baseball is in my blood. Like the light hair and eyes I inherited from my father, and the hot Italian temper I got from my mother, through my veins a love of baseball runs. Until recently, where my passion for the sport came from I was not sure. Sometime, I thought it began long ago, on summer trips to Fenway Park, when my family would drive in our oversized Chevy to Boston, park in a garage near Government Center, and take the T out to the ballpark. As I grew older and more accustomed to our…

was closing the game today. We were currently winning by one run, the score is 3-2 and all we have to do is hold them and the game is ours. Nevertheless, with our luck, Babe Ruth steps up to the plate. He is not a force to be looked down on, with his .359 batting average and his 153 RBI’s this season (Batting average is simply the number of times you get on base with a hit divided by the number of at-bats you have. RBI’s stand for runs batted in). Not to mention that he’s 6’2” and 215…

second base, short stop, third base, left field, center field and right field. There is also an umpire that stands behind the catcher, who people call Blue, that keeps count of outs. Another part of the umpire’s job is to call strikes, foul balls, runs and balls against the batter. Up at bat, a player gets three balls and two strikes. Strikes are pitches that the umpire consider a “perfect” ball to hit. It’s right down the middle and in the strike zone. A ball is a pitch that is out of the…

wouldn't be what it is today if it weren't for baseball. That is just a fingertip of the exceeding information on this historic national sport. America's pastime is now and will always be known as baseball. The duration of a baseball game is nine innings long, but it can also go into extra innings.…