Many of Robert Coover's novels and short stories are formidable expressions of imagination and creativity and The Universal Baseball Association is no exception to this rule. Henry Waugh is an accountant during the day for Dunkelmann, Zauber, & Zifferblatt and, during the night, he turns himse...

Replay in Baseball? 05/26/2004 How would game change if there were replays in baseball? How would people react to this change? Throughout time it seems as though baseball has been the original sport that shaped America. America was still a very young country when baseball became ...

America's Favorite PastimeThere is only one sport in this country that everyone loves passionately and follows intimately. This is the most intense and exciting sport ever known to mankind. Everyone in America is glued to the television set every night, watching intently, wondering what exciting p...

The Days of the Sandlot Sandlot a vacant lot especially used for unorganized sports. It was a place during my childhood years where I could go and not have a worry on my mind, except being with my best friends and playing some sandlot ball. A place where the memories of endless f...

Discuss A Place You Enjoy Searching through memories, events, and experiences I discover myself uncovering more about myself and my character. Insightful to my desires and interests have been necessary to discover my true place of enjoyment. A place where I find enjoyment is any ordinary base...

BALLPLAYERS To the average baseball fan there are many different types of players. There are pitchers, catchers, infielders, and outfielders; there are home run hitters, contact hitters, and speedsters; but to someone who really loves and appreciates the game there are really only two kinds of base...

The movie I have selected for my film review is Field of Dreams. I feel that it is a great movie, and is an outstanding form of popular culture. There are many different events that take place throughout this film that show this. Field of Dreams stars Kevin Costner and James Earl Jones. Costner...

How Mario and Luigi Helped Start a Violence Revolution After a long day of car jacking, killing hookers, and beating police down with a baseball bat, I just like to come home and relax, so I turn on my video game console. The sweet glowing beauty of animated violence rendered in beautiful real tim...

Going to a Cardinals game is an experience that combines a number of appeals for the attendee. Some of the most enjoyable parts of the experience are intangible-the thrill of the game, being part of a huge crowd that is rooting for your team, and the vicarious excitement of being part of the action...

Volleyball, a great sport to play There are a lot of sports out there today. Most require a decent amount of physical effort in order to participate in. Some sports use lots of equipment to play, and others require none. There are even sports that many people cannot play because they can't ...

Baseball Baseball is a game I love And one I'm always dreaming of. I play it in summer and spring To enjoy the fun that these days bring. Practice makes perfect is what they say, So all work hard to be this way. Basics and fundamentals, the coaches repeat, ...

One of the biggest problems I have with our society today is in sports. Don't get me wrong, I love sports. I love to watch the competition and seeing these men doing seemingly superhuman feats. The problem I have with sports is the over-commercialization and over-hyping of athletes by their a...

The History of Softball Softball was invented in November 1887 in Chicago, IL, inside a Boat Club. There, many sports fans waiting for the score of an on-going football game. When the news came that Yale had defeated Harvard, 17-8, one Yale supporter picked up an old boxing glove and threw it at...

Competition Amongst ChildrenI'm sure many of us, as children, spent countless hours playing such games as Musical Chairs, Duck-Duck-Goose, Tag, and several other "kiddy" games. Not to mention the fact that some of us even engaged in the "All-American" games of baseball, football...

When people ask me what sport I play, they are always expecting something like basketball or baseball the main and more known sports. So when I say I play tennis they are seemingly quite shocked. Tennis has always been a big part of my life ever since childhood till now. In this essay I will show...

Hometown Varsity Games The good old high school years, some better than others. There is always something everyone can rely on though. That is a hometown varsity, sporting event. There are so many to choose from. For instance, football, basketball, and baseball, just to name a few. Being a...

English 11 mikje m. Essay 9/18/00 Does the neighborhood children grow up in effect there life. It really does effect children's lives because this is were you meet friends and play sport games with each other. I was brought up in a good neighborhood there fore it shaped me to who...

"Messier passes to Gretzky, Gretzky is flying up the right wing he shoots! HE SCOOOORES!!" the annoucer on the tv yells as everyone in the room jumps to their feet cheering wildly. Life being part of the sports fan culture begins. No sitting idle, passivly watching the game on TV. Every minute is ...

My husband and I are the kind of mean parents whom kids grumble about on the playground. We're among that ever shrinking group of parents known as nintendo holdouts. We refuse to buy a nintendo set. (Nintendo, for those who have been living in a cave for the past few years, is something that you...

While going up, sports were a big influence in my life. There was not a day that went by that I would have to go outside and throw either the football or baseball around with my dad whenever he got home from work. In my early years all sports were to me was going across the street and gathering a gr...

To me, my Xbox is the greatest entertainment in the world. With it, I can play games, watch DVD movies, and store music. If you don't own an Xbox your missing out. Although they are expensive, I use mine a lot so I get my moneys worth. I love firing up that black box with the lime green cir...

In 1959, the American Academy of Pediatrics adopted a position stand against competitive sports for children below the age of 14. No one listened. If anything, systematic youth sports training in both individual and team sports begin at age 6, in many communities. Youth sports programs have become ...

Doctor or Athlete"I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective. I don't want a football player who doesn't take defeat to heart, who laughs it off with the thought, 'Oh, well, there's another Saturday.' ...

Matt KelleyRhetoricSpeech #2 Professional Athletes are OverpaidEvery young child who has ever been involved in athletics has dreamed of being a professional in that sport. Why do you think that everyone wants to be a pro athlete. Sure it is because they get to...

Paintball What is Paintball? Well paintball is a game played by two teams, both trying to eliminate the others' teammates. In order to be eliminated you must either be shot with a paintball on your marker or yourself or they can "bunker" you. That means that they get within ten fe...