...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....
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...as many others on the team involved as was necessary. Each of these men who helped throw the series would receive ten thousand dollars, which at that time was a lot of money. During this time in baseball, players did not receive the enormous salaries they make today so they felt that this was a bonus the needed. The original player involved was the first baseman names Chic. The first person he got involved in the scheme was the shortstop named sweetie. From these two men the plan spread quickly. Soon much of the starting team was involved including the center fielder, right fielder and the third baseman named Bucky. However, most of these men did not feel confident in the plan until Joe Jackson and one of the starting pitchers, Eddie who was the leader of the team was involved. The whole plan, which already involved substantial money, relied on the participation of these two men. Joe Jackson was a great baseball player, one of the greatest in history. His life revolved around baseball and without it, he was not the...
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...careers of many pitchers allowing them to continue throwing at a major league level even into their forties. However, the process does take its toll which generally amounts to at least nine months of recovery...
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...Phuong Luong Refection paper # 2 38 Studios’ Destruction: Lessons for Entrepreneurs After years of establishing and seeking ways to develop; besides some achievement at certain moments, the fall of 38 Studios left valuable lessons at the idea of entrepreneurship. Curt Schilling was a professional baseball player and he was passion about what he did. In 2000, Schilling started to seriously think about life after baseball and then he began with an idea of founding a gaming company. Schilling had his reasons to pursue the entrepreneurship path. For the first reason, he wanted to pursue his own ideas. He knows his product’s orientation – a product that people would enjoy themselves. He understands customers’ willingness to pay. Schilling also pursued the entrepreneurship path as being his own boss. Schilling realizes that the way to achieve his important personal as well as professional goal is to start his own gaming company. He funded the entire project by his own money from the beginning. Not only having a clear vision about what product he wants to supply the market, he also has entrepreneurial characteristics. Schilling has the passion for the business. He devoted most of his time in pitching and working at 38 Studios. Schilling worked longer hours than everyone at the company. According to the case, Schilling started at GMG at 7:30 a.m. He would then rush out to arrive at Fenway Park by 1:30 p.m. for a game or practice. He would...
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...Steroids in the game of Baseball | The Physical and Statistical Effects | Anonymous | Many players have been accused of the use of steroids. Some have denied it, but has been proven guilty. Some have admitted by will that they have used Performance-Enhancement Drugs/Steroids at some point during their career. EXTERNAL PHYSICAL EFFECTS There are several signs known of to identify steroid use. For example, in men he might notice baldness and growth in the chest (around the breast) area. In women she might notice increase facial hair, reduction around the breast area, and their voice may deepen. In both men and women they may notice Jaundice, aching joints, mood swings, and nervousness. There also can be major effects for men and women from steroid usage; for example, high blood pressure, liver damage, increases of bad cholesterol, males risk shrinking of the testicles and infertility. Females’ menstrual changes these are some of the noticeable signs of steroids use. There has not been any conclusive proof that the use of steroids alone would make a drastic change in the body size or weight. Although steroids are said to enhance the muscle mass, which could give a false belief of increased body strength. To acquire the muscle mass and body strength desired one would need to have a workout plan in place. If the ligaments and tendons are not strong enough to support the muscle mass one could end up with torn ligaments and tendons. Steroids alone...
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...I won 15 games as a starting pitcher and only lost 10. Every time I stepped foot on the pitchers’ mound at Buffalo Stadium, every seat of the 11,556 were taken and the fans were roaring. I have never felt so proud to be playing baseball. I felt like Babe Ruth! With all of the success I experienced, I received a letter from a scout for the Chicago Cubs organization. They were really enjoying seeing what I was able to do in the Double-A Minor Leagues as a left-handed pitcher, and they offered me a promotion to Triple-A. Sure enough, I signed that contract and set off to Los Angeles to play for the Cubs’ Triple-A affiliate, The Angels. Unfortunately, I did not experience the same success in 1949 that I did in Houston the year before. The guys I was playing with in Triple-A were just bigger and more talented than I was. I fought and never gave up, just like Mom and Dad taught me. It just was not enough to get the job done. I decided it would be better to go back to Houston the following...
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...tells me to warm up by jogging three laps around the tennis courts, and I’m already feeling nervous now as I feel this will not be my cup of tea. Next, we get into mechanics drills and start working on my form. To finish the day I had to do a core workout as well. After all this work, I was sweaty and tired and Mike says, “So when’s the next time I’ll see you?” I pause and he sees the hesitation in my response or, in this case, the lack there of. He begins to explain how all this hard work will pay off, but results won’t be immediate. I’ll have to put a lot of time into this not just in my meetings with him, but on my own as well doing drills and exercises almost as homework. He said, “If you do this, you will become a much better pitcher because of it.” After considering all this and daydreaming of becoming really good, I say, “As soon as I can!” And once consulting with my dad, they decided on me meeting with him once a week and doing my drills outside of our meetings as well. From there he said, “This hard work will pay off.” Today’s the day. It’s my senior year, I’m seventeen years old and I’m scheduled to sign my letter of intent to play baseball at Malone University. I could not be more excited. Playing college baseball has been my dream for seven years now. All those difficult days working through workouts, arm injuries, and practice don’t seem so pointless now. It’s eleven o'clock in the morning and I’m outside my school about to walk in. It’s almost...
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...It was the top of the fourth,and Bailey was up to bat.The pitcher that she was up against was one of the best in the league. Then the ball was pitched. It was a fastball right down the middle, but Baily knew it was coming and she was ready. She swung the bat and nailed the ball. It was a line drive to left field and it went out of the park for a homerun. The crowd went wild and Bailey walked it off making it look easy. At the age of 16, Bailey was one of OP’s youngest starting varsity softball players on the team. It takes a lot effort and work to get where she is at.But, she didn't have a problem with that.She said “I enjoyed every moment I spend on the field during a game or practice.” Also being one of the youngest on the team doesn’t mean that she didn’t have plenty of experience.At the age of five she started her softball career playing for the Orangeburg city league.On her team she played second and pitched a little. When she was six she broke one of her wrist and couldn’t play softball for three months.She said ”Those were one of the worst three months of her life.”...
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...Robinson offers a affectionate profile of her father who, she writes, “taught me to flip pancakes, hit a baseball, question political leaders, solve problems, and keep promises.” The author’s concise history of race relations in the United States enables youngsters to understand the underpinnings of the “segregated world” in which Robinson was born and the racism and injustices he encountered throughout his private and professional life.” Jackie Robinson, daughter offers a profile of her and him, and she wrote this about him “taught me to flip pancakes, hit a baseball, question political leaders, solve problems, and also to keep promises.” She begins to concise the history of race relations in the United States, and that he enables youngsters to understand the underpinnings of the “segregated world” that he was born in. The racism and the injustices that he was encountered throughout his private and also his professional life. “The author notes that her parents encouraged her and her brothers to “measure our lives by the impact we had on other people’s life.” Here she clearly, often eloquently, gauges the enormous impact Jackie Robinson had on so many lives as a father, husband, athlete, and crusader for justice and equality. Ages 9-12. (Feb.)” The daughter of Jackie Robinson said that her parents encouraged her. She also tells her brother to “measure our lives by the impact we had on other...
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...Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game Michael Lewis For Billy Fitzgerald I can still hear him shouting at me Lately in a wreck of a Californian ship, one of the passengers fastened a belt about him with two hundred pounds of gold in it, with which he was found afterwards at the bottom. Now, as he was sinking-had he the gold? or the gold him? —John Ruskin, Unto This Last Preface I wrote this book because I fell in love with a story. The story concerned a small group of undervalued professional baseball players and executives, many of whom had been rejected as unfit for the big leagues, who had turned themselves into one of the most successful franchises in Major League Baseball. But the idea for the book came well before I had good reason to write it—before I had a story to fall in love with. It began, really, with an innocent question: how did one of the poorest teams in baseball, the Oakland Athletics, win so many games? For more than a decade the people who run professional baseball have argued that the game was ceasing to be an athletic competition and becoming a financial one. The gap between rich and poor in baseball was far greater than in any other professional sport, and widening rapidly. At the opening of the 2002 season, the richest team, the New York Yankees, had a payroll of $126 million while the two poorest teams, the Oakland A's and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, had payrolls of less than a third of that, about $40 million. A decade before, the highest payroll...
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...Joshua Bosman Professor Brown ENG102/9:55am 10/2/14 Concussions in Sports “As Larry got checked out by doctors’ moments ago, he re-enters the game on offense as the Cardinals attempt to win the game.” Concussions are becoming a huge topic in all four major sports leagues, The National Football League (NFL), Major League Baseball (MLB), National Basketball Association (NBA), and the National Hockey League (NHL). Most of the concussions do tend to happen in football or in hockey, but even boxers, professional wrestlers, Mixed Martial Artists (MMA), and soccer players have been diagnosed with concussions. “Over 250 current or retired athletes - including 50 NFL players and 12 hockey players - have pledged to donate their brains, including Keith Primeau, who retired from the NHL in 2006 due to post-concussion syndrome” (McIlroy and Mick). That itself is a pretty crazy number and that is just in the past five years. That kind of shows how committed to fixing and understanding the concussion crisis is upon us. Concussion protocols in all sports needs to be redefined. There have been concussion protocols for the NFL and NHL that have been put into place since the frequency of concussions started happening. Teams across the nation and even world have started to employ neurologists for when a player gets a concussion so that the proper steps are taken. Usually a player has to sit out if he has failed a part of the concussion test. Recently an Arizona Cardinals player named John...
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...First Quarter Week 1 The Crow and the Pitcher Adapted from Aesop by Dinah C. Bonao On a hot summer day, a thirsty crow looked for water to drink. “It’s hot! I am thirsty!” said the crow. “I need to find water.” (Have the pupils predict: What do you think will the crow do?) The crow flew from one place to another looking for water to drink. He finally found a pitcher near a well. But there was only little water in the pitcher. He tried to drink from the pitcher but no matter how much he tried, he could not reach the water. “My beak is too big. The pitcher’s neck is very narrow. How will I get the water?” he thought. (Have the pupils predict: What do you think will the crow do so he could reach the water in the pitcher?) Then an idea came to the crow. He picked up some small stones. He dropped them into the pitcher one by one. (Have the pupils predict: After he had dropped some stones into the pitcher, what do you think will happen?) “One, two, three…” Plop, plip, plop. Little by little, the water rose in the pitcher. “Four, five, six…” Plop, plip, plop. The water rose some more. Soon the crow could reach the water. “Now, I can drink!” said the crow. “Ah! It’s cold and good!” Discussion Questions: 1. At the beginning of the story, what did the thirsty crow do? 2. Where did he find water? 3. Could he drink right away? Why not? 4. How do you think the crow felt when he could not drink? 5. What did the crow do then? 6. If you were the crow, what would you do? ...
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...When Pat got to highschool he went out for baseball and tried out for varsity baseball pitcher. His coach told him that he didn’t make the team so Pat was mad that he didn’t make the team. So he quit he told his coach that he was going to focus on football and his coach told him that he wasn’t going to do good and told he should stay in baseball. That started a Pat career in football he eventually took his team to the championship game and they won it. He has continued to work on his game and get stronger and faster. After he got to the NFL and was starting for the Cardinals at safety. He joined the army after 9/11 and he told reporters that he plays football from the heart. He went on to go to Afghanistan where he was killed and his friends and family. Made a foundation to help people that are in the army that have a strong work ethic like Pat to get a scholarship to do what they want for a...
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...Major League (film) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, search Major League Theatrical release poster Directed by David S. Ward Produced by James G. Robinson Joe Roth Mark Rosenberg Chris Chesser Irby Smith Written by David S. Ward Starring Tom Berenger Charlie Sheen Corbin Bernsen Margaret Whitton James Gammon Wesley Snipes Charles Cyphers Chelcie Ross Dennis Haysbert Andy Romano Bob Uecker Music by James Newton Howard Studio Morgan Creek Productions Distributed by Paramount Pictures (US only) Release date(s) April 7, 1989 (1989-04-07) Running time 107 minutes Country United States Language English Budget $11 million Box office $49,797,148 Major League is a 1989 American satire comedy film written and directed by David S. Ward, starring Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen, Wesley Snipes, James Gammon, and Corbin Bernsen. Made for US$11 million, Major League grossed nearly US$50 million in domestic release.[1] The film deals with the exploits of a fictionalized version of the Cleveland Indians baseball team and spawned two sequels (Major League II and Major League: Back to the Minors, which were released by Warner Bros.), neither of which replicated the success of the original film. Contents [hide] 1 Plot 2 Alternate ending 3 Casting 4 Background 5 Roster 6 References 7 External links [edit] PlotRachel Phelps, a former Las Vegas showgirl, has inherited the Cleveland Indians baseball team from her deceased...
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...The Life of Jackie Robinson Jackie Robinson was the first African American to play in the MLB. The league didn’t know that they were bringing an African American to play what they thought was a white mans sport but were they wrong, Whenever they signed him they asked him where he could play he said that he could play any position that they throw at him. So he started playing at first baseball on April 15, 1947. But before we go any further let learn a little bit about him first. He was born on January 31, 1919, in Cairo, Georgia. He was the youngest of 5 children and his father left his family in 1920. So they moved to Pasadena, California and bought and moved to a residential plot with two houses on it. His mother had various jobs...
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