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Best Pitchers Baseball
693 wordsIn the beginning there were players like Ty Cobb who hit. 300 for 23 consecutive years, and the 'flying dutchman' Hon us Wagner. Pitchers like the 'christian gentleman' Christy Mathewson, and the winning est pitcher in history Cy Young. In the years when the only Yankees were the people in the north and there was an upstart franchise called the American League there was a pitcher, his name was Walter Johnson. Known as the 'big train' because of his high powered fastball which was unequaled in al...
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Aluminum Bats Vs Wooden Bats Is Baseball
1,714 wordsAluminum Bats vs. Wooden Bats Is baseball America's pastime? For the major leagues maybe, but for college athletes it seems more like a new age video game. The introduction of high dollar ed aluminum bats produce football like scores, higher statistics, and a percentage of danger to each and every player on the field. The NCAA has changed the regulations of the bats so far and should look further into to making another change to wooden bats. High tech aluminum baseball bats aren't quite as new t...
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John Rocker
816 words'Imagine having to take the (No.) 7 train to (Shea Stadium) looking like you " re (in) Beirut next to some kid with purple hair, next to some queer with AIDS, right next to some dude who got out of jail for the fourth time, right next to some 20-year-old mom with four kids. It's depressing. 'The biggest thing I don't like about New York are the foreigners,' the 25-year-old Georgia native said. 'You can walk an entire block in Times Square and not hear anybody speaking English. Asians and Koreans...
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Ty's Father W.H. Cobb
568 wordsOn December 18, 1886 Tyr us Raymond Cobb was born into the of W.H. Cobb and his fifteen year old wife Amanda Chitwood. Ty grew up in the southern town of Royston, Georgia. Ty's father W.H. Cobb was a schoolteacher and a college graduate at a time when there were few. W.H. raised Ty on a 100 acre farm where he taught Ty the values of hard work and. Ty's mother Amanda Chitwood was only twelve when she married W.H... She had Ty at the age of fifteen and lived to see her son get elected into the Bas...
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Different In Male And Females
1,038 wordsSince we were little kids our little minds have been fed thoughts by elders that boys are very different from girls. When we were little we never really thought much of it. Now that we are older we see how different or how less different we actually are. Two things are different in male and females. One is the biological aspect such as our brains and body parts. Also the way we play certain sports are different. The difference in sports also ties in with the fact that men and women are biologica...
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Confident Cocky Casey
981 wordsStrike Three America, and the world love sport; there are hundreds of types, but the one thing that links them all together is the emotion. For players and fans alike, the emotional involvement with the game is what draws them to it; and for Americans, there is one sport in particular that ignites their passion - baseball. Baseball has been called "America's pastime" for a reason; the suspense, drama, and pride wrapped up in this game have captivated generations. The poem, "Casey at the Bat" eff...
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Conflict Between Roy And Memo
494 wordsBernard Malamud relates a story of a baseball player, Roy Hobbs, who went from a small farm to the big city life to play baseball in The Natural. The story creates a contrast between the evils of the city and the purity of the countryside. Roy begins the story on a train heading to Chicago and immediately falls into trouble with the new city life. He defeats a baseball giant, The Whammer and instantly has the fame of a major league baseball player. In his glory, he charms a woman, Harriet Bird, ...
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Long Al Games
930 wordsAbolish the Designated Hitter Do you prefer a bases loaded double that clears the bases and involves an exciting play at home plate or a boring three-run homerun where the baserunners trot around the bases while the defense stands around with dazed looks about them Would you prefer stolen bases, squeeze plays, and trying to move the baserunners to make something happen as opposed to a team waiting for someone to hit a homerun If you prefer the aforementioned as opposed to the later then consider...
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Jason And Les
979 wordsIt was late in the evening. There was a man sitting in a chair and flipping channels eagerly between two baseball games on TV. The man's name was Les Sutton. He was a towering man standing 63. He was built, worked out a lot and looked like someone not to meet in a dark alley. Les was a detective. His skills of deduction were brilliant. He also had an assistant. Les's long time pal and partner's name was Jason Mensch. Jason was also very tall but he was more lanky, built more like a basketball pl...
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Baseball
218 wordsOn August 28, 1945, a scout for the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team escorted an intriguing, if not exactly youthful, prospect in the to intriguing, if not exactly welcoming, office of a veteran baseball man who had already revolutionized the sport at least once. Jackie Robinson meet Branch Rickey. What actually happened in that cluttered room over the course of the next few hours will never be known for certain, but without a doubt this meeting set in motion changes in major league baseball and i...
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Mott's Baseball
315 wordsDescriptive Essay My name is David, and I grew up in Highland, Michigan. I am blonde and stand at 5' 10". During my free-time I like to take my dirt-bike behind my house where I can ride it on over 100 acres of state property. I also like to use my laptop and play video games on it such as Counter-Strike. Other video games I enjoy are NCAA football and MVP baseball for Playstation 2. For exercise I enjoy working out up at the local Powerhouse Gym which helps me train for Baseball which I played ...
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Former Partners Lawsuit
631 wordsby ANDREW deGRANDPR'E In a bittersweet act of vengeance, 14 former minority shareholders in the Montreal Expos have kicked up a shit storm - the stench of which has settled in Major League Baseball's front office. Commissioner Bud Selig is among the small band of parasites named in a multimillion-dollar lawsuit filed in Miami last summer. The limited partners, citing the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, claim Major League Baseball and former Expos owner Jeffery Loria fraudulen...
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Aluminum Replica Of A Wooden Bat
2,154 wordsWooden Versus Aluminum Baseball Bats Crack! That was the sound of our nation's pastime in the early days of baseball. For nearly 125, years the wooden bat was used in every level of baseball. In Tom's River, New Jersey, the little league World Series is held every summer. Ping! Is the only sound that a spectator will hear during one of those baseball games. What happened to the old-fashioned crack of the bat? The wooden bat has been used in professional baseball since the game's establishment in...
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1927 Yankees Murders Row The 1920's
1,325 wordsThe 1927 Yankees Murders Row The 1920's were one of the greatest eras for baseball. Some of the greatest players to ever play the game of baseball played in the 1920's: Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Ty Cobb just to name a few. The 1920's also produced one of the best teams (if not the best team) of all time: The 1927 Yankees. In 1920 the Yankees purchased Babe Ruth from the Boston Red Sox for 125,000 dollars in cash and a 300,000 dollar loan to the owner of the Red Sox. This was the beginning of the bu...
