...magazines, virtual library d) What type of graph do you think would be most effective at showing patterns in your data? Answer: A bar graph would be the most effective graph to show the data. III. Carry out the Plan (e) Construct a graph to summarize your data. Answer: see attached file f) Now that you have graphed your data, do you think that you need to do any additional research to make an objective comparison of Mark McGwire’s, Hank Aaron’s, and Babe Ruth’s batting careers? If so, what is it? Answer: No. I was able to gather the batting averages of all three players. g) Does your graph show any patterns and/or trends? If so, discuss these patterns. Answer: Yes, the newer the players, the lower the batting average. h) If you answered yes to step (g), what inferences can you make based on the patterns you observed? Answer: When Babe Ruth played, there were less games, less teams. Now that...
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...Babe Ruth Date Born: February 6, 1895 Place: Baltimore, Maryland Date Died: August 16, 1948 Place: New York, New York Early Family Background: George Herman Ruth Jr., aka Babe Ruth had eight other brothers and sisters, but only him and his sister Mamie survived. His parents names were Kate and George Herman Ruth. Ruth’s father was a bartender and his mother helped at their tavern. Ruth’s parents made no time for him so they sent him to St. Mary’s Industrial School for Boys. Adult Life: Helen Woodford: married on October 17, 1914 in Ellicott City, Maryland. In 1921, they adopted a little girl named Dorothy. Jan 11, 1929, Helen died in a fire of suffocation. About 3 months later, on April 17, 1929, Babe married Claire Hodgson in New York. In 1930, Babe adopted Claire’s daughter Julia & Claire adopted Babe’s daughter Dorothy. Significant Accomplishments: Babe’s record of 714 homers was only beaten by Hank Aaron in 1974. In 1932, Ruth did his famous “called shot,” where he pointed to the centerfield bleachers and hit his homerun in that same direction. When the Babe was with the Yankees they won a total of 7 pennants and 4 world championships from 1920 – 1933. Feb 2, 1936 Babe became Charter member of Baseball Hall of Fame. Other Points of Interest: *Babe Ruth got his name from when his new legal guardian Jack Dunn brought him to see the players, they said “Here’s Jack’s newest Babe!” The name stuck so throughout his life he...
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...With only about 500 people in attendance, the game lasted for a little more than two hours as Kekiongas pitcher, Bobby Mathews, would make history as the very first pitcher to have a win on his record throw the first shutout game as Mathews went on later in the year to be tied as one of the league leaders in shutouts. In 1876, the National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs was organized, but today we simplified the name just to the National League (Mckissack 12). Throughout the rest of the late 1800’s, baseball massively grew in popularity as all-stars were being born. Baseball has a long and incredible history, especially in the twentieth- century, with events such as the first night game in 1935, the first World Series in 1903, and Babe Ruth’s “Called Shot?” home run in the 1932 World Series at Wrigley. Baseball would carry people through both good times and bad, always uplifting fans and creating a few hours for people to escape from all of their troubles, and it’s because of this that baseball is “America’s Pastime.” 1900 was an interesting year in baseball. Depending on how you figure it, 1900 was either the last year of the 19th century, or the...
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...are driven not only by their other teammates, but their bosses as well. A manager wants to makes sure that he or her has a strong team and that they are happy before you start serving customers. When you have a strong and satisfied team who works together, it will lead to a positive feedback from your customers. You cannot let egos get ahold of a team. It is about everyone having his or her own objective. Esprit de Corps is about going through a challenge, coming up with a solution, and operating an experiment (smart business). These three steps are not done alone, but together as a cooperating team. Where one person may fall weak in some criteria’s, there will be another person who has that strength and vice-a-versa. It is like what Babe Ruth once said; “It is hard to beat a person who never gives up” (Ruth, goodreads.com). When there is more than one person striving for a goal, a fearless team, they will be able to go above and beyond that goal, as long as they work...
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...George Herman Ruth was born February 6, 1895, into a poor family in Baltimore. As a child, he was sent to St. Mary’s Industrial School for Boys, a school run by Roman Catholic brothers, where he learned to play baseball and was a standout athlete. At 19, Ruth was signed by the Baltimore Orioles, then a Boston Red Sox minor league team. Ruth’s fellow teammates and the media began referring to him as team owner Jack Dunn’s newest “babe,” a nickname that stuck. Ruth would later acquire other nicknames, including “The Sultan of Swat” and “The Bambino.” Ruth made his Major League debut as a left-handed pitcher with the Red Sox in July 1914 and pitched 89 winning games for the team before 1920, when he was traded to the New York Yankees. After Ruth left Boston, in what became known as “the curse of the Bambino,” the Red Sox didn’t win another World Series until 2004. In New York, Ruth’s primary position changed to outfielder and he led the Yankees to seven American League pennants and four World Series victories. Ruth was a huge star in New York and attracted so many fans that the team was able to open a new stadium in 1923, Yankee Stadium, dubbed “The House That Ruth Built.” The southpaw slugger’s final season, in 1935, was with the Boston Braves. He had joined the Braves with the hope that he’d become the team’s manager the next season. However, this dream never came to pass for a disappointed Ruth, who had a reputation for excessive drinking, gambling and womanizing. Many...
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...visit Cuba next week at the request of Caricom nations. 2. WHAT: Lightning struck the upper deck at Wrigley Field last night while the Cubs were playing in San Francisco. 3. WHEN: Midnight tonight is the deadline for tax returns, but the local post office is ready to accommodate procrastinators. 4. WHERE: The Emerson and Towanda intersection is officially the most dangerous crossing in Bloomington, according to the Illinois Bureau of Transportation. 5. WHY: Because she could correctly spell "ostentatious," Lisa Wheeler will go to the state Spelling Bee finals. 6. HOW: By hitting his 50th home run last night for the fourth year, Chicago Cubs slugger Sammy Sosa etched his name in the baseball record books alongside Babe Ruth and Mark McGwire. Common Types of News and News-Feature Leads (more ways to "lead" the reader into the story) 1. Straight Summary Lead: Twenty-eight passengers and a crew of four were killed last night when a single-engine plane crashed four miles south of Bloomington. 2. Picture or Dramatic Lead: Mourners lined up for miles yesterday in the pouring rain to take one last look and lay flowers near the coffin of Mother Teresa, who lived among Calcutta's sick and needy for 35 years. 3. Background Lead: After two weeks of picketing, United Auto Workers put down their signs yesterday following an agreement which would give members a 10 percent raise. 4. Quotation Lead: "I don't want to sound anti-American," poet Derek Walcott...
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...Last Wednesday, Ichiro Suzuki became the all time hitting reader in the baseball history. He hit twice during game, which was the Miami Marlins against San Diego Padres, and he broke Pete Rose’s all time hitting record. However, his hitting record will come with an asterisk because its record will count both his Japanese baseball career and his Major League Baseball (MLB) career. Suzuki came to MLB in 2001, recorded 2,976 hits in his MLB career. Before he came to the United States, he recorded 1,278 hits when he was a professional baseball player in Japan. When Suzuki’s record became closer and closer to Rose’s record, the Japanese media heated about the news. Then, Rose had opportunity to talk about comparison between his record and Suzuki’s record. Rose did not admit the fact that Suzuki became the all-time-hitting leader because he made his hitting record only MLB. He believes that MLB should count his minor league hitting record if MLB will admit that Suzuki will become the most hitting baseball player in MLB history. This is a news worthy topic because it is one of the most controversial topic in current sports news. Most people admit that the Japanese professional baseball is not same level as MLB. The problem is a fact that Japanese professional baseball is not same level as the Minor League in the United States. Japan won World Baseball Classic (WBC) in 2006, and 2009. At that time, United States participated WBC. Also, according to World Baseball and Softball...
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...Behemoth of Bust. The Colossus of Clout. Babe Ruth. Whatever you call him, he was the greatest baseball player of all time. Though not known for it as well as his other feats, he was an amazing pitcher. He was also the biggest slugger ever. Though some said that Willie Mays was greater, Babe Ruth was more of and all around player, and a better hitter than Mays. These traits make him unquestionably the greatest player of all time. In the first six years of his career, the Babe was one of the game’s best pitchers. He had a 94-46 win-loss record and a great 2.28 era (wiki). Some sources say that had he not stopped pitching to become a full time slugger, he could have been the greatest pitcher of all time (u-s-history). In one World Series stretch, he pitched 29 1/3 scoreless innings. In 1916, his best year, he had 8 more shutouts than 7-time Cy Young Award Winning Robert Clement’s best year (Bleacher Report). In 1919, he was sold to the Yankees, and pitched five games, all of them wins, before willingly easing out of pitching into an outfielder....
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...In the 1920s one sport that was very popular to play and watch was baseball. It was also the time of one of the greatest baseball players ever, George Herman Ruth Jr. Known as The Great Bambino, The Sultan of Swat, The Big Bam, Jack Dunn’s Baby, The Caliph of Clout, and The Behemoth of Bust but you probably know him best as “Babe” Ruth. George Herman Ruth Jr. was born on February 6, 1895. He was born in Baltimore Maryland. When he was younger he rarely saw his parents, he was practically raised by the Catholic Missionaries who ran St. Mary’s Industrial School for Boys. George was classified as irreformable because of his lack of ability to adapt to a structured environment at St. Mary’s. In 1914 Babe Ruth was bought by the Boston Red...
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...¬Who is the Iron Horse? & What's his next move. Henry Louis Gehrig is an all American baseball player that’s shine was always under looked due to his teammate Babe Ruth. "Let’s face it. I'm not a headline guy. I always knew that as long as I was following Babe to the plate I could have gone up there and stood on my head. No one would have noticed the difference. When the Babe was through swinging, whether he hit one or fanned, nobody paid any attention to the next hitter. They all were talking about what the Babe had done."-Lou Gehrig Lou was overshadowed by babe because not only was he an unparalleled hitter but he was and outgoing and flamboyant guy unlike Lou who was often quiet, Lou was one of those guys that would just go out and do...
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...Curse of the Bambino Babe Ruth is known as one of the greatest baseball players back in the early 1900’s. He broke many records and hit 714 home runs during his baseball career. As you may know, the Boston Red Sox traded him to the New York Yankees in 1920 because Boston’s pitcher and outfielder demanded more pay for their time. This opened up the floodgates for Boston and lead to eighty six years of misery for the Red Sox. During the time of the Curse, the New York Yankees went on to win twenty six World Series while the Red Sox stayed back on a ride of misery (http://www.baseballhistorian.com/html/babe_curse.htm). The Curse of The Great Bambino is one of the biggest curses in Major League Baseball (MLB). The reason why the Red Sox called...
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...A well-loved Coach and Player Good people come to us everyday and everyday good people leave us. Lawrence Peter Berra, or more commonly known as Yogi Berra, was a baseball Hall of Fame catcher and was known across the globe for his skills and talent. He died September 29, 2015 at age 90. Although Yogi is gone, his memories still live on through his qualities, legendary sayings, and in the Hall of Fame. Berra has many great qualities. Like the unbelievable way he would turn bunts into double plays or how he would twist pop-ups into easy outs. Yogi was born on May 12, 1925. He came from a humble background in a family of seven. His parents were Italian immigrants and at a young age his mother nicknamed him Lawdie because she could barely pronounce Lawrence. Yogi started playing baseball in the local American Legion and it was Bobby Hofman who was the one who came up with the name, Yogi. He said Lawrence looked like an Hindu yogi when his arms and legs were folded that way after they lost a game or getting ready to bat (Tierney). It was in his teens when he first got serious about baseball. He was playing in the minor leagues when his neighborhood friend, Joe Garagiola, and him got offered a deal to play for the Cardinals by manager Branch Rickey. Berra turned him down when he learned he was offered half of what Rickey paid Garagiola, only to be unearthed by the Yankees. After serving in the U.S Navy during World War II, Yogi became one of the Yankees catchers in 1946 and stayed...
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...This paper reviews the importance of sports in America during the 1920’s. The 1920’s was a time of amusement in America. People used their hard earned money to watch the world’s greatest athletes. Some of the athletes reviewed in this essay include: Babe Ruth, Benny Leonard, and Harold Osborn. The 1920’s portrayed the importance of sports in the public eye. The authors analyzed in this essay include: Biography Editors, International Olympic Committee, Allen Barra, Jim Sumner, and James B Roberts & and Alexander G. Skutt. The International Olympic Committee, or IOC, has compiled thousands of Olympic athletic accomplishments. Every athlete from the first to most recent Olympics has been compiled into very detailed accounts. The staff at the International...
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...In the fall of 1978, a boy was born in the town of Benton. August 30th marks the day that a famous baseball pitcher would come to life. And his legacy is still going. Cliff Lee was dark haired boy that had always played baseball throughout his youth. Lee would become one of the most famous pitcher's in major league baseball. He's still playing today. Lee was born in a Benton hospital on August 30th, 1978. Lee grew up playing baseball every summer. Most importantly, he had always been a pitcher. He attended Benton High School and was a starting pitcher on the varsity. When Lee's senior year in high school came, he decided to attend Meridian Community College in Mississippi. He would later go on to attend the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. He would be a starting pitcher in his first year there. Lee would later graduate as a Razorback and would enter the 2000 MLB Amateur Draft. Lee's name would be called out in the 4th round. He had been selected by the Montreal Expos (“Cliff Lee Statistics and History”). Lee would later marry his wife Kristen. They would have two children, Jaxon and Maci. Jaxon was diagnosed with leukemia at the age of four months. Jaxon underwent treatments, and is currently in subsidence. On September 15, 2002, Lee made his MLB debut for the Expos. They were playing their rival, the Minnesota Twins. Lee pitched 5 innings, and only have up two hits. He also recorded 4 strikeouts. Lee performed much better than he was expected to during his 2003 season...
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