...battlefield and he later issued her a condemnation. On October 13, 1754 Mary was born in Trenton New Jersey to Maria and John Ludwig. She is most commonly known as Molly Pitcher. Mary’s mom worked as a dairy farmer. At the age of 13, Molly left her home to work as a domestic servant and later married a barber, William Hays. William and Mary Hays lived as patriots in the state of Pennsylvania. At the start of the Revolutionary War, William enlisted in the Continental Army and served as a gunner in the 4th Artillery during the war. While her husband fought on the battlefields, Molly became a camp follower. Camp followers were a group of women who traveled with the army and cared for wounded soldiers, cooked, and cleaned for them. Camp followers were crucial to the soldier’s lives as they were fighting....
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...British control but the colonists wanted to have freedom. The American Revolution was the road to freedom although it was a bumpy road the soldiers made it through. Molly Pitcher was one of many heroines in the war. She believed the colonies independence would help the colonists live a better life. Mary Ludwig was born in Trenton, New Jersey on October 13, 1754. She had 3 siblings they were all boys. Mary had no type of schooling during her childhood. When she had to sign a document she just signed with an “x” because she didn’t know how to read or write. But she was good with cleaning up her parent’s farm. So one day Anna Irvine came and wanted Mary to become her servant. Mary finally agreed to become her servant but it would be a long journey back to Carlisle, Pennsylvania. She worked under the Irvine family for many years. But on July 24, 1769 Mary Ludwig became Mary Hays. She had married John Casper Hays. In the...
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...humidity. We were all drenched in a puddle of sweat while just standing motionless waiting for our luggage. Arriving at the hotel we hit the pool for the rest of the day. Next morning we arrived at the field not knowing what to expect. I was pitching the first game. I felt so honored to be given the special opportunity to pitch in the very first stadium where the very first game was played in Cuba. In between innings my teammates would go through a case of water like it was nothing. We were trying hard to play in the scorching weather. I was literally dying in the mound, there was an inning where I ran out of air and was purple! I took about a million puffs of the inhaler and got back on the mound. I am proud to say that I was the first pitcher to ever throw a complete game shutout on that team in history! on this trip I realized how much I have and how bad I take for granted. It was very hard for me to see kids playing just as good or even better than us without any proper equipment! Kids playing in sandles, torn up cleats , ripped up gloves shorts or sweats. I made many friends and I told them how embarrassed I was to have what I have and not realize how lucky I am, so I gave everything that I had away. I...
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...players hoping to make it to the majors, they should be using the equipment required by the MLB in order to be the most prepared. Also, it makes it harder for scouts to determine how a player will perform under different conditions. This is why I believe the NCAA should play with the same standards as the MLB. The baseball bat controversy has been lingering over amateur baseball since the NCAA (National Collegiate Athletic Association) allowed the use of aluminum bats for the first time in 1974 (Adelson). Every year there is another injury to a pitcher as a result of the aluminum bat due to its exit velocity. The exit velocity of a ball plays a key role in determining the level of risk of injury. It is defined as the speed of the ball off the bat. The standard exit velocity of an aluminum bat at the sweet spot is nearly 105 mph. That is nearly fifteen mph faster than any wooden bat. "Andrew Sanchez, a Cal State Northridge pitcher had his skull fractured by a ball hit by an aluminum bat" (Adelson 5). Sanchez later sued the NCAA and Louisville Slugger, one of the two makers of the high-powered aluminum bat. Louisville Slugger remarked,...
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...statements regarding sound accounting principles. I only mention this because Paul, the players’ lawyer, felt that the owners were being greedy and “hiding” profit in their accounting books rather than split their extra income with the players. According to our class reading Accounting for Property, Plant, and Equipment and Other Assets, all assets—in this case being the players—have a depreciation value. Unfortunately, PBPA goes against this statement by claiming that the players shouldn’t be depreciated at all; in fact, they went as far as to say that the players add value if anything. Now I don’t exactly claim to be an expert on baseball myself, but I know enough to safely say that baseball players tend to wear down over time. For example, pitchers are known for having shorter careers by throwing out their arm. Therefore playing baseball has to be taxing, not to mention risky. If anything, baseball players should only be viewed as from a depreciation standpoint. Another dispute that occurs between the players and the owners is the notion that a good portion of the players’ compensation becomes a deferred expenditure rather than showing the whole amount as a current expense. However, our class reading points out that deferred compensation must be expensed once earned. The...
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...What is Tommy John Surgery? Ulnar Collateral Ligament (UCL) Reconstruction, better known as Tommy John Surgery, is a procedure performed on the ligament that connects the bone of the upper arm, the humerus, to a bone in the forearm, the ulna. The UCL is a critical ligament in the elbow, and allows athletes, particularly baseball players, to throw a baseball at speeds in excess of 100 miles per hour (MPH). A baseball player named Tommy John, a pitcher who played from 1963 to 1989, was the first person to ever have UCL reconstruction surgery. Due to the fact that John was the first player to be operated on, the surgery bears his namesake. Who was Tommy John? Tommy John was a professional baseball player that pitched for 7 different teams during his 26-year career. John injured his left pitching elbow during a game on July 17, 1974. He threw a pitch, as he had done many times before, and felt a sharp pain in his elbow upon releasing the ball. John was removed from the game, and was evaluated by the Los Angeles Dodgers team doctor, Dr. Frank Jobe. Jobe informed Tommy John that if he did not have surgery, his career would be over. The surgery had never yet been performed before Tommy John was injured. After months of evaluation and deliberation, John agreed to the surgery. On September 25, 1974, Tommy John became the first man to receive the experimental surgery. How is the surgery performed? Dr. Jobe decided to take a tendon from somewhere else in the body, ideally the...
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... I have had a pretty wonderful baseball career! It all started when I was two. I then went up to coach pitch then pitching machine then went up to Cal Ripken then went to Babe Ruth from there i was drafted onto a travel Baseball team called the bearcats! And i’ve played there for two years now. Playing little league. Little league is where it all starts. it’s where you decide if you want to play baseball or find a different sport. In my life swim is a very important thing that I do to stay in shape. Swim helps me work out my legs to run faster and to work out/ stretch my arms to i can throw harder and farther Little league is the most in important thing i've ever done because, it is where you decide if you want baseball to be your life! Also little league for me was a great experience! Coaches are great battings were high in my AA season we took 2nd because umps were lame and defently needed glasses! All and all it was a great season! My last paragraph is about my amazing travel team the Bearcats!!! The Bearcats has been the best thing that's ever happened to me! The coaches are so good and they have helped me improve in my batting and fielding i would never have a chance at the high school team if it wasn’t for my coaches! Baseball has changed my life in every way possible! I would never ever be where i without baseball! Its is a true blessing that i had the chance to be on the team that i am and meat the people that i've met and all the doors that have opened for me...
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...Baseball is a truly amazing and exciting game. The momentum can swing from offensive to defensive in a matter of seconds, sometimes just by only one pitch. One of the great things about baseball is that you don’t need to be physically talented or tall to win. Your physical appearance doesn’t matter; what really matters is your mental aspect. Nobody else but yourself controls your attitude. You need to be able to control your emotions, prepare yourself for each game, and block out fans. Baseball players play around four to five games a week. Because of this, they have to be prepared for each game. As Yogi Berra once said, “Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half physical,” you have to be always be thinking about what to do next in the game of baseball. Baseball is a game where your thoughts take over. Mentally preparing yourself includes focusing in on the upcoming game, getting all of your personal needs out of the way, and thinking about what you can improve on. But ironically, even though it is good to think mentally in the game of baseball, you can’t over-think each play. Overthinking will cause the same effects as not thinking at all. Once you are prepared for the game, you have to think positive while playing, and you will have to control your emotions. Having confidence in offense and defense during play time is key to success. If you don’t have courage on defense, you will be scared when a ground ball is hit to you, and you probably won’t field it. If you...
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...whole idea is to show how two different cultures, American Baseball and the Trobriand Islanders both have the same idea same idea. That idea being that if you change,your way of doing something it ultimately ruin you. Keeping things the same will keep your luck the same. The article talks about rituals, how Dennis Grossini, a Detroit Tiger pitcher, would do everything the same on game day. Dennis would wake up at the same time, eat lunch at the same time, in fact he would eat the same lunch. All this was to win the game, he think that if he lives every day the same way he did the day he won. That the outcome will always be the same. Some may think that this is just stupid, but in reality it may work. By touching your hat or shirt, it relines your hand to where it was when you threw the strike. A ritual for me that in high school before we went on stage to do a play we would all have to jump up and hit the sign above the backstage door. The article also talks about taboo, to where players cannot say a certain word or it will break the luck of another player. The one mentioned in the book is when people say "no-hitter" around the pitcher, it there for makes him throw horrible from then on. In theater people say "break a leg" instead of good luck. Taboo for me is every time I slam on breaks or almost get in a wreck. I say the words "we're going to die" in hopes that it reverses the outcome. The other thing people use for luck is something like a rabbits foots a fetish. Some...
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...wasn’t the headline in my local newspaper this past summer, but this was: “New pitch count limits applauded by some, ripped by others.” For those of you who don’t eat, sleep, and breathe high school baseball, you wouldn’t know what this means, so here’s some background. The NFHS, the national governing body of high school sports, had instituted an innings limit on high school pitchers to ten innings every five days. It was meant to prevent shoulder injuries. Nobody liked the limit because it made no sense. It had no bearing on the number of pitches thrown, since a pitcher could throw 50 pitches in one inning. Seeing the issues with this, there will be a pitch count limit for this upcoming season. Some people love this idea, but they don’t play the sport and don’t...
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...Rick Ankiel is known amongst baseball fans for his unprecedented failure as a pitcher and his stunning comeback as an outfielder. A lot of mystery surrounds Ankiel’s sudden ineffectiveness as a pitcher. A brief stint in the majors in 1999, starting only five games, showed flashes of what 19-year-old Ankiel was capable of. During a brilliant rookie campaign in the 2000 season, in which he finished second in National League Rookie of the Year voting, Ankiel sported a 3.50 Earned Run Average (ERA) and struck out 194 batters in 175.0 innings pitched (Rick Ankiel Stats, 2017). Given Ankiel’s success on the mound, Cardinals manager Tony La Russa chose to start him in game one of the National League Divisional Series against the Atlanta Braves. Starting...
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...Did you know that one out of every five pitchers get injured at one point in his or her career? Taking care of your arm is crucial if a player wishes to succeed later in their journey to Major League Baseball. A variety of things in the sport of baseball can cause injuries, from overuse to throwing a specific type of pitch. Pitchers need to take car of their arms or they may experience injury. (Visual 3). Practice makes perfect. This is a famous phrase meaning the more you perform a task, the better you will get at it. This theory can be applied to pitching as well. If you repeat the throwing motion repetitively, come game time, pitching will almost be second nature. If a player pitches a great amount early on in their life, pitching will...
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...The complex interaction of the lower extremities and core muscles help to reduce some of the demand placed on the shoulder joint. Therefore, pitching should not solely be thought of as an action of the upper extremity. The pitching motion and its biomechanical components can be divided into five phases; windup, early cocking, late cocking, acceleration, and follow-through. Since much of the force for the pitch is created by the legs, the hip, knee, and ankle are worked quite a bit. The first motion a pitcher does is his windup. At the beginning of the windup, the pitcher’s left leg goes into extreme hip flexion and their weight is transferred back to the right leg. During this he slightly flexes the right knee to help balance himself. To slightly...
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...In his essay, entitled “Throwing Like a Girl”, James Fallows makes the point that anyone, regardless of gender, can learn to properly throw a baseball. He describes the proper way to pitch (a fluid twisting motion starting in the lower portion of the body and ending with a flick of the wrist). In comparison, he also describes the improper actions that, stereotypically, many women take in pitching. A wrist bent inwards, an elbow too high, or facing your target directly are all signs of a bad throw. Fallows argues that the idea of “throwing like a girl” is a false and harmful idea in itself, as there is no reason that a woman cannot throw just as well as any man. While he states that it is difficult to find clear information on exactly how to...
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...It was that time of year and I was so ready. It was baseball season, basketball season had just passed it was a good season for our Newbern panther boys and girls. This year we were looking for a win, we had never won a game in baseball, ever. So today was the first day of tryouts, and we had a new coach named coach king. He was kind of strict he told me he is the varsity coach for tight ends and full backs for Valdosta high school. Sometimes he would just be mean for no reason. Finally, it was our first week of practice and he was assigning position. It was my turn and coach king put me at a position I had never played out of my 2 other years playing at Newbern Middle School. He assigned me to shortstop I had never played that, ever I...
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