Baseball Baseball has been providing us with fun and excitement for more than a hundred and fifty years. The first game resembling baseball as we know it today was played in Hoboken ,New Jersey, on June 19, 1846. The New York Nine beat the New York Knickerbok...

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Do you know the names of all the teams in Major League Baseball (MLB)? If you guessed the Yankees, Red Sox, Blue Jays, Orioles, Devil Rays, Royals, White Sox, Twins, Indians, Tigers, Mariners, Athletics, Angels, Rangers, Braves, Phillies, Marlins, Expos, Mets, Astros, Cardinals, Cubs, Pirates, Reds...

How does baseball, and especially its literature, propagate and foster American cultural myths? "If you build it, they will come." "Say it ain't so, Joe." These familiar phrases, from the films "Field of Dreams" and "Eight Men Out," respectiv...

The Physics of Baseball by Robert K. Adair was a very interesting book, which revealed some fascinating information about the relationship between physics and the sport of baseball. Robert K. Adair revealed and uncovered so many interesting facts and observations about the sport. The book gave you...

Baseball Through foreign eyes Our church told us that we would be helping someone in need that had no money and no place to go. I pictured someone local who was having a hard time, but when I saw him for the first time I was shocked. He was tall, had a dark shade of skin, black hair, and s...

The Baseball Field: by ^Mitheral^. Hello, my name is ^Mitheral^ and I would like to share a story from my childhood with my fellow colleagues. When I was growing up my friends and I played baseball at an old abandoned field outside of town. The field now is an over populated loud subdivision. W...

The 1988 romantic baseball comedy "Bull Durham" contains many of the oldest cliches typical of baseball films since the beginning of cinema. "Bull Durham" tells the tale of a young, upstart player, looking to supplant an older and more seasoned player on a minor league team call...

My journey through www.ballparks.com, a virtual field trip, was something less than an amazing adventure for a girl that is not big on baseball much less baseball parks. Having been to only a few minor league ballparks and no major league parks, I quickly realized that I had no idea what I was view...

Baseball Baseball has been providing us with fun and excitement for more than a hundred and fifty years. The first game resembling baseball as we know it today was played in Hoboken ,New Jersey, on June 19, 1846. The New York Nine beat the New York Knickerbok...

Baseball Baseball has been providing us with fun and excitement for more than a hundred and fifty years. The first game resembling baseball as we know it today was played in Hoboken ,New Jersey, on June 19, 1846. The New York Nine beat the New York Knickerbok...

In the United States and around the world, athletics are considered a staple of culture dating back to ancient Greece. The athletes participating in the competition are considered icons that represent their city, state, and even their entire nation. This admiration of athletics stems from our basic ...

Creatine in NCAA Baseball Mark McGwire uses it. Sammy Sosa uses it. The Atlanta Braves have tubs of it in their locker room. Then why does Scott Carnahan, Linfield College's varsity baseball coach and coach of the 1994 U.S.A. Olympic baseball team emphasize, "I will not participate i...

Not Knowing could be the Answer The summer of 2003 was the start of the Little League baseball tryouts. The coaches were trying to assemble the children, along with their parents in an organized manner. Coaches allowing the children to warm up first, started mass confusion involving the parent...

Generation X Teenagers today are considering themselves as Generation X because that is what society lable them as. This generation is lost in translation because we really have nothing to branch on ourselves on. The 30's 40's and 60's all have major history evens like The Great Depr...

Four Letter WordDuring the play of any baseball game you will hear four-letter words that will arouse both tame and violent responses. Some of these words are traditional baseball vocabulary, some are obscenities called out from the crowd. None, however, cause as much confusion and anger as the my...

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Dreams Can Come True Everyone has at least one dream that they want to fulfill in their lifetime. The interesting thing about a dream is that, as long as you do not stop trying to reach it, it is going to come true. I have several dreams, and one of them was to play high school baseball at A. Se...

"The Sandlot" is a baseball film set in California, during the 1960s. The young Scotty moves to a new neighborhood with his mother and stepfather. Gradually, after some difficulties, he becomes accepted on a neighborhood baseball team. He befriends Benny, a much better baseball player tha...

Who knew one baseball game can shape a person entire focus on their dreams and aspirations? I don't think many people realize that one simple event such as baseball game can have such an impact on a person's life. I remember my first baseball game; my dad took me to it when I was 7 or 8...

The Great American Novel by Phillip Roth is about the great American game of baseball and its players, both good and bad-but mostly bad. In fact, the title of Roth's novel is bitterly ironic, given that the subject of the novel is the worst team of the Patriot League, the bottom-tier league of...

It's a Wonderful Life Picture a young child full of life and happiness. The love of his parents shows through his eyes, smile, and tears. Some people would like to think that those things about a child are exactly what make life wonderful. People who think that way have no idea how ...

A Child's Courage It was Saturday morning and my mind remained paralyzed while trying to think about a thesis for my writing assignment. In desperate attempts, I even asked God to deliver me an essay and in return, I promised to attend church the next day. After waiting several minutes, ...

Did you know that the top paid teams in the league are always in first or second place? The New York Yankees, the top paid team, has won the most World Series of any baseball team. "[They] led the major leagues [in salary] with an average of nearly $4 million" (Blum 1). Furthermore, these teams are ...

Friendship is a very vital part of life it helps people to obtain good qualities such as trustworthiness, honesty, dependability, and responsibility. It also provides people with opportunities to interact positively with society. Friendship often grant people happiness in knowing that they have othe...