Essays on Baseball

Introduction:

A wealth of historians have written on baseball and football during the World War II era. However, there is precious little devoted to the political complexities between the Roosevelt Administration, Major League Baseball, and to a lesser extent the National Football League. Patriotism was good for business, however loosing players to the war effort was not, nor were direct financial contributions to the war effort. Major league sports teams are businesses and have to attend to maintaining a financial bottom line in order to remain viable. Little has been done to examine if Major League Baseball (MLB), the National

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I remember the first professional baseball game I attended and the important lesson I learned from my father.
As a child I loved the summer. School could not deter me from riding bikes and playing baseball. I loved the summer sun drenching my body in warmth, and the same cool breeze that tousled my hair also carried a baseball into the outfield.
So when I attended my first real baseball game, my excitement was palpable. I wore my favorite T-shirt from my little league team with the number seven on the back, and I grabbed my worn, brown leather

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As baseball owners and agents discuss salaries, organization of events and performances, economists watch and analyze the benefits of the event organizers and players. Baseball is a rich field for the study and analysis of basic economic concepts. Baseball outcomes connect economic theory to human behavior in several ways. The performance of a player can be measured and used to analyze how individual employees contribute to the total revenues of the company. In baseball, the relationship between individual performances (input) and winning percentage (output) is highly predictable and directly related. Additionally, the effects of the decisions of Major League

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Michael Nelson Trout was born in Millville, New Jersey on August 7, 1991 (“Mike Trout Biography,” n.d). He is currently 23 years old. His parents are Jeff and Debbie who are middle class earners. His father who was a baseball star in Millville and in the University of Delaware influenced Mike’s prowess in baseball. He has two siblings who are older than him- a brother Tyler and a sister Teal. He attended school at the Lakeside Middle School and later the Millville Senior High School where he graduated in 2009. Mike’s journey in baseball began while he

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Procedures.

Warm Up (5 minutes).
The teacher asks students about differents kind of sports they know:
- what kind of sports do you like?
- have you tried all those sports?
- do you enjoy watching championships?
- do you know some kind of weird sports from other countries?
- are there some kinds of sports you would like to try?
- why haven't you tried it yet?

Development.

The teachers tells about national sports of different countries.
A national sport or national pastime is a sport or game that is considered to be an inside part of the culture of

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Interstellar: Film Cuts

For those who have seen Interstellar it is a cinematic adventure only matched by the amount of plot holes found throughout its story. The viewer is taken on a whirlwind celestial journey through space, and time, as relativity and our imaginations are warped. There is so much happening in the 2:49:00 movie, small cinematic gestures, such as film cuts, got lost in the grandeur. However, several scenes with three in particular, allowed film cuts to be noticed for the tools they are.
Well into the film, after the explorers had landed on their first planet, an ‘after action’ cut

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The Wall Street Journal has prepared this year’s Major League Baseball Hateability Index. The teams have been rated and given points based on the their mal-practices exercised by them. Higher points here on the index suggest greater more hateability. That is, the more points a team secures, the more it becomes a is a subject of scorn and disgust. Points are allotted to the erring teams have based on malpractices, includingbeen given on issues such as suspension for drug abuses, having keeping funny beards, opponent battering, and alsoeven for winning too much. This year the number of criteria

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Increasing the Popularity of Major League Baseball among Children and Teens in Wichita, Kansas

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Summary

Wichita, Kansas has a minor league baseball team, the Wichita Wingnuts which plays in the AA League. The Commissioner of Major League Baseball would like to increase popularity of the game among children and young adults through a marketing program. The nearest MLB team is the Kansas Royals based in Kansas City. In addition, Oklahoma City in Oklahoma is looking to host a Major League Baseball team as well, and currently has a minor league baseball team, the Redhawks, which is the AAA affiliate of the LA Dodgers.
Given the proximity and presence of all these baseball

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Summary of “Cheating and CHEATING”

Joe Posnanski is a fan of baseball. And in his essay “Cheating and CHEATING” he wants baseball fans to be clear, at any point in the history of baseball, there was a lot of cheating an money grabbing happening at all levels of baseball. From people taking amphetamines, to stealing signs, to fixing games, baseball has its heroes, but it demonize for cheating, since it was a baseball proverb of the time that “If you’re not cheating, you’re not trying” (Posnanski, 556). Joe Posnanski believes that he and Pete Hamill believe in baseball, but they have different

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The Wall Street Journal has prepared this year’s Major League Baseball Hateability Index. The teams have been given points on their mal-practices. Higher points here suggest more hateability. That is, more points a team secures more it is a subject of scorn. Points have been given on issues such as suspension for drug abuses, having funny beards and even for winning too much. This year the number of criteria for constructing the index has been increased.
St. Louis Cardinals has topped the list this year. The NL Central champs have secured 12.7 points, a little more than the

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"42" Jackie Robinson

Brief overview of the film's storyline
“42” is a biographical American sports film released in 2013. It was directed by Brian Helgeland and it dwells on the racial integration in the professional baseball teams of America. The film captures the 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers season and tells the story of Jackie Robinson, a baseball player who wore jersey number 42 (giving the film its ultimate name). The major character in the film under the guidance of the team executive became the first African American to break the color barrier that existed in the American baseball teams. The film records the

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A wormhole theoretically is known to be a passageway through space-time that can be used to create short routes for extensive journeys that go across the universe. Wormholes are mainly forecasted through the general relativity theory. Wormholes have been forecasted come with the dangers of high radiation, unexpected collapse, and unsafe contact with alien matter. A wormhole when viewed depicts a tunnel that has separated ends in space-time. It can be pictured as a two dimensional tube surface that connects various parts of the surfaces (Nelson, Peter & Rohitash Rao 67).
There are no evidences that are observable about wormholes

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Sports assume important social-cultural and economic roles in the society. Through sports, people earn local and national recognition based on their prowess. High performing sports men and women have built strong profile and earned international recognition because of their ability to shine in different sports. The high desire of emerging victorious in the sports has made some individuals use weakened means of enhancing their performance. Joe Posnanski suggests that sports; especially baseball is characterized with high levels of cheating (Posnanski, 556). This paper focuses on the article Cheating and Cheating to highlight why sports matter.
Sports matter because the

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Introduction

The advantage that movies have over books is that everything in the movie can tell the story: the background music, the movements or he gestures of the actors, specific unanimated scenes, dialogue, monologue and so on. On the other hands, books have only the words they are made of to tell the story and sometimes graphical indications or drawings that explain the scenes which compose the narrative. The current essay analyzes four combinations of book-film storytelling narratives (“The Natural”, “World War Z”, “Christine” and “The Hobbit”), focusing on a particular book-film combination, chosen as the worst such combination for

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Art is a concept that can be traced back to ancient times. It relates to human activities and the effects of these activities. Art is diverse in nature because it cuts across various aspects of the society. There are two basic categories of art: visual and non-visual art. Visual arts comprise of performing art (music, dance and theatre acts), photography, paintings. Non-visual arts, on the contrary, are not visible. Baseball is a popular sport in the United States. It can be described as a two-by-two-by-two game. This means that it involves two teams, involves using a bat and a

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Introduction

Baseball used to be a very favourite pastime for the Americans, and although it has lost most part of its older prestige, it still remains a passion that crosses the borders of the US and spans generations. For that reason, one can still see talent scouts eagerly seeking for young boys that have a star, when playing baseball. At any sign of athletic promise, high-school boys are on their way to becoming stellar players with fat cheques and payoffs for their great athletic performance. To many, baseball is the benchmark of a purer world. But, wherever there is money

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Introduction

Since many kinds of sports are games, it is not surprising that examples from sports are often being used for illustration of classical problems from game theory, while game theory is, also may be applied to improve performance in sports (Chiaporri et al 12). Choice of direction of shots in tennis is often being used for understanding of mixed strategies, and, the other way around, mixed strategy have been used to explain how footballers might decide on where to spot the penalty kicks (and for goalkeepers – how to try to save them). At the same time, chess in itself

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Sight is a very prevalent theme in a great variety of fiction; it can often be a symbol for understanding, comprehension, and enlightenment. Hindsight and foresight are often rewarded as virtues, or at least play heavily into the plot of a story. A blind person is often thought to ‘see’, or comprehend, more than the normal person, and sometimes people are not aware of a shocking truth, despite it looking them straight in the face. These scenarios are found in August Wilson's play Fences, as Troy, the patriarch of the family, is completely undone by his pride and lack

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In August Wilson’s Fences, we follow Troy Maxon, a disillusioned, bitter middle-aged man who used to play baseball in his prime – however, since he played before the color barrier was broken in major league baseball, there was no chance for him to shine. This has left him a broken shell of a man who clings to what mild successes he had in the past and participates in an extramarital affair which tears his family apart. Troy’s journey is the most transparently indicative of the American Dream – his dream occupation was baseball, a quintessentially American sport. However, due

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Different political candidates have differing views about many subjects relating to leadership. In the quest to win the support of the electorate, political candidates formulate policies and manifestoes that will guide their work towards achieving certain goals. This paper focuses on the differing views of the political candidates in the 2012 United States presidential candidates on defense. Presidential hopefuls, Republican Mitt Romney and the eventual winner, Democrat nominee Barrack Obama were at diametric positions with regard to military spending and the broader defense strategy. This debate and the disagreement on this essential issue particularly with the increasing security concerns

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Evolution of Baseball

The National League was founded in the year 1876. That is when organized baseball began.

Practices to limit unrestrained competition for players and stabilize the market emerged.

The success of company sponsored teams led to the transformation of businessmen attitudes towards baseball and was a source of company pride (Lomax).
Henry Chadwick is a pioneer of what we know today as baseball. He influenced the changes in the game, introduced the modern box score, statistics, and wrote instructional manuals. He made baseball popular during those early days of establishment. He wrote a book on baseball in 1868. He promoted the game as a journalist.
Alexander Cartwright is yet another person often

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Commonly there are two negotiation approaches used in the business world, one is the distributive bargaining approach and the other one is integrative bargaining approach. Both these bargaining approaches are used in particular scenarios and the bargainer first has to assess the situation and then decide which bargaining tactic he or she should use first. Distributive bargaining approach is used in situations where the parties are bargaining on who will get the most benefit. Integrative bargaining approach is used in situations where parties are trying to reach a solution in which both the parties get equal benefits. The most

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Abstract

Confidence and focus determines one’s success in any sporting activity. Baseball is both a physical and mental game. All forms of success are subject to one’s confidence and self-esteem. For an individual to have a triumphant career in sports, confidence is a mandatory element. Physical talent does not do anyone any good without confidence in performing sports. Several athletes have average physical talent in their sport fields. Their self-confidence propels them to succeed beyond those deemed more talented them. Mohammed Ali is celebrated athlete for his self-confidence. When asked for whom he thought he was, the great

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This dispute involves the owners of baseball teams and the professional baseball players about how profits generated by the teams should be distributed. The baseball players feel that they should receive a share of the profits earned, but the owners maintain that most of the teams have been making losses each year. The owners went ahead to produce financial statements supporting their claims, but the baseball players believe that the owners are using accounting tricks to ‘hide’ profits. To settle this dispute, the Owner-Player Committee (OPC), which represents the owners, and the Professional Baseball Players Association (PBPA), which represents

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The 2012 presidential elections in the United States were shaped by a couple of issues that resonated within the electorate. It is important to note that President Obama took over office at the height of the 2008 economic recession in the United States. President Obama had in a period of four years to put in place mechanisms that would see the United States economy back to stability. Despite the efforts that had been put in place by the Obama to stabilize the economy, unemployment was still a major challenge within the American citizenry. For government to be able to

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The case presented is complex and needs thorough analysis before a decision is arrived at as to whether I take the case or not. There are several issues that require reviewing. Benefits which may accrue after the athlete is exonerated are quite enticing, a fat pay check and an elevated status are two things any professional wouldn’t mind having and considering this is an area of my expertise. The information provided highly influences my decision in the sense that, it is the basis on which the client seeks my help. The client’s willingness to tell the truth

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The movie 42 is about the heartwarming life story of Jackie Robinson, a baseball legend who made history when he signed a contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers. The movie shows the challenges that Robinson faced, particularly the racial discrimination he experienced among his fellow baseball players, his team’s opponents, the umpires and even baseball fans. The major theme of the movie is about racial discrimination and how it was eventually conquered by Robinson. The setting of the movie is between 1945 to 1947 in Brooklyn.
The protagonist in the story is Jackie Robinson as portrayed by Chadwick Boseman.

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STEROID ERA IN BASEBALL

Introduction
The term steroid era in baseball came about because of the players in major league ball using substances to boost their strengths in order to make more home runs or be better in blocking people. Though this era is not well documented therefore it is very difficult to know when it started or whether it has ended or will end in the near future. The major period that is considered to have hit the most was in the late 1980s when baseball era was almost dying until the late 2000s. In 1991 steroid use was banned from being

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Presidential debates provide that voters with a one on one access to the presidential nominees hence priming some of their considerations. The debates also appeals to the voters to look at a given topic from a different point of view. This help the voters to evaluate the candidates based on their approaches to those topics. Voters also get the chance to learn about current issues, events and conditions that prevail in US. Apart from the information, voters also acquire more information about the candidates’ characters through the way they communicate their points.
The first 2012 presidential debate between President

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The 2012 U.S. Presidential Debates
A month or so before the actual election, a series of presidential debates were established to help people decide on whom to vote between Republican nominee, Governor Mitt Romney, and Democrat nominee, President Barack Obama. With the polls neck-and-neck and many of the registered American voters still undecided, the Republican Party and Mitt Romney brought their A-game to the table and eventually, and without any doubt, won the first debate. The astounding results left many critics and Americans wondering what impact this will have on Election Day.
It was then found out later on

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Themes in August Wilson’s Fences

August Wilson’s Fences gives a clear description of the sufferings that many people, particularly people of African American decent, go through when they move to the city while on a poor family that really struggles to stay together. Wilson centers his focus on the head of the family, Troy Maxson, a 53 year old man who happens to be the key character in this play whose location is not clear though is set in the hard times of the 1950s. Other characters in the play include Rose Maxson (Troy’s second wife), Gabriel Maxson (Troy’s brother), Lyons

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On Tuesday, 6 November 2012, the United States of America will vote for their preferred presidential candidate. Contesting this election will be Republican Party’s Mitt Romney and the Democrat’s Barrack Obama. After following the campaigns of the two candidates and comparing their manifestos, it is eminent that Mitt Romney’s policies are quite vague, and he seems to be changing the goal posts every so often. This has been witnessed from the promises he utters; his words are so minced up that he has been referred to as the two-headed chameleon. This article serves to highlight reasons

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Symbols appear throughout the novel The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger. The main character, Holden Caulfield, is passing through a painful period of growing up. To give a reader a deeper understanding of his emotions and feelings, the author uses symbols. The most significant symbols used in the book were Allie’s baseball glove and Holden’s red hunting cap (Salinger 36).

Allie is a deceased Holden’s brother whose baseball glove reminded Holden about happy days spent with Allie. Holden associated Allie’s glove with untroubled childhood. He kept the glove with written by the Allie’

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Interview between a TV presenter and a presidential aspirant

Presenter: Good evening sir?
Aspirant: Good evening thank you!
Presenter: Who is Mitt Romney?
Aspirant: Romney is an American citizen, born, brought up and educated in this country. I have made a lot of contributions in this country making be the best qualified person for this job.

Presenter: what contributions have made in the lives of Americans?

Aspirant: First, I have been a dedicated business consultant with the Boston Consulting Group before venturing into the Bain Capital Equities and other sectors. Besides, I have also held senior positions in the government. My contribution to national politics also speaks for itself: I’ve been the 70th governor of Massachusetts since

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Introduction

Movie review is a very important aspect of a movie as it gives a general information about a given movie and we can be able to understand what people think about a given movie. In this part we are going to cover a movie review on Trouble with the curve. We will then compare two reviews and establish the similarities and the differences between the two reviews. Trouble with the curve is a smooth and a successful family resolution drama that is set against the background of expert baseball. The film presents a sprightlier and a more consistent Eastwood

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The Christmas parade is a big event in our town, a time of celebration of the season. December of 2005 felt extra special because as sixth graders, my twin sister Elizabeth and I were participating in the parade: I rode on a float with my baseball team, while Elizabeth rode on a float with her cheerleading team. With the festive crepe-paper colors in red, white, green on the floats, I felt like something special was about to happen as confetti drifted through the air all around us like magical snow. This feeling of the extraordinary did not leave me,

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Newton’s First Law is the Law of Inertia. F = m * a F = force, m = mass, a = acceleration

An object will stay at rest (not moving) until some force is applied. An object in motion will stay in motion until some force is applied.
Games that have to do with balls or any kind of spheres are one example. If you are playing marbles the marbles do not move until they are hit by one of the other marbles or if a person pushes one of them or picks it up.
Newton’s Second Law of Motion Force on

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Branch Rickey is often said to be one of the most forward-thinking and innovative managers and executives in baseball, for no less reason than his decision to sign Jackie Robinson to the Dodgers in 1945. Jackie Robinson then went on to become the first rookie of the year in baseball history, set records, and broke the color barrier that was an unwritten rule in baseball clubs since their inception. These actions by both Rickey and Robinson are absolutely some of the most influential and groundbreaking moments in American history and racial equality, but the philosophy behind these actions reveals

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Part 1

One of the most popular sports movies in the United States is Hoosiers, which is ostensibly the story of tiny Hickory High School’s trip to the finals of the Indiana state basketball tournament – and its escape with the championship trophy. It is also the story, though, of Norman Dale, who coached Hickory to its title. Hired to coach the team by an old friend who was an administrator at the school, Dale has an extremely hoary skeleton in his closet – the fact that he hit one of his own players while coaching in Ithaca, New York, and

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Moneyball is a film that highlights the stages through which a football manager took a baseball team from a despised to a respected level. Billy Beane has an ambition of bringing up a baseball team yet finances limit him. Apparently, he cannot afford the minimum amount required to pay a player. This did not hinder him from pursuing his dream even as he sought advice from his friend Peter Brand who also becomes his close associates. They decided to hire players who would not mind playing at a lesser fee. This made his team to be the most despised

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