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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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 Knickerb...

America\'s National Pastime is the once deeply pure and widely beloved, and now often cynically regarded and business oriented business of baseball. Once a sport and a game, it is now very clearly dominated by a corporate identity, with enormous wage figures and heavy advertising stakes rendering ba...

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...

The physics of cheating in baseball is very complicated, and some say it is just superstitious. Throughout the year\'s baseball players worldwide have tried to find a way to cheat and make them hit the ball further. Some have tried hollowing out bats and replacing the wood with cork, rubber, or sawd...

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...

Another winter of "big-money free agents" is shifting the balance of power in both leagues somewhat, but there continues to be one constant in the free agency game; the domination of the large market franchises upon the game of baseball. This winter Mike Mussina, top pitcher on the free-agent marke...

BASEBALLIt was a glorious afternoon, sun shining, birds chirping, and just a great day to play baseball. So I thought. It was the Hal Shafers annual baseball tournament, the biggest senior youth tournament in the United States, all the scouts would be there. My team, the Findlay Royals, play ...

Field of Dreams: baseball and religion "And they'll watch the game, and it'll be as if they had dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick they'll have to brush them away from their faces. People will come, Ray. The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball....

BASEBALL It was a glorious afternoon, sun shining, birds chirping, and just a great day to play baseball. So I thought. It was the Hal Shafers annual baseball tournament, the biggest senior youth tournament in the United States, all the scouts would be there. My team, the Findlay Royals,...

Sports Business & EntertainmentTom GannawayRestructuring BaseballAs the seasons progress in major league baseball, the economic structure of baseball is suffering from numerous problems, which are currently allowing for the competitive balance to be less than ideal. Baseball is faced with problems a...

Sports Business & EntertainmentTom GannawayJanuary 22, 2001Restructuring BaseballAs the seasons progress in major league baseball, the economic structure of baseball is suffering from numerous problems, which are currently allowing for the competitive balance to be less than ideal. Baseball is faced...

Baseball is one of the oldest and most popular sports in the United States. It is known as America's "national pastime" because of its strong tradition. It is competitively played with a hard ball and bat between two teams of nine players each. Even though this sport was developed ...

Salaries in Baseball are skyrocketing every year. Why would a salary cap be needed? It would be needed to help keep ticket prices down, and help make for a more even level of competition for all teams. A salary cap is needed to keep baseball thriving in the future, to keep the game exciting and...

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...

In the game of baseball, dreaming big, working hard and showing individual effort in an atmosphere of teamwork and fair play are all American ideals. These ideals hide the realities of drug abuse, and fixed games, just like these dreams hide the ugly reality in America that not everyone who dreams a...

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...

Major League Baseball is viewed by most Americans as a source of entertainment. Millions of people turn out during a regular season to see there favorite teams and players play a good game of baseball. However, few see the other side of this form of entertainment. Baseball is as much of a busin...

The History of Baseball It is a game played everywhere, in parks, playgrounds, and prison yards, in back alleys and farmers fields, by small children and old men, raw amateurs and millionaire professionals. It is a leisurely game that demands blinding speed. It is the only game in which the defenc...

Baseball's Development Into America's National Pastime In an era when people worked extremely hard day in and day out, to only make a meager living, people searched for something more. Men would work endlessly long hours and seek anything to release their tension. They would long for a hobb...

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...

The Baseball Swing The biomechanics of the baseball swing can be described four phases: Stance, Recoil, Swing, and Follow through. Previous studies have been completed on the biomechanics of a baseball swing in an effort to perfect the art of the perfect swing. First I am going to discuss the...

Now batting in the clean-up position at this year\'s baseball World Series is Mr. Creatine (Frankel 1). As the pitcher winds up, he knows in his heart that his new opponent, an amino acid supplement hiding in the muscle tissues of the batter, now threatens him. He delivers the pitch over the fat par...