...Baseball In the mid 1800’s a new sport emerged throughout America. They called it baseball, evolved from an old English game. From the moment it was invented it was instantly popular. Today baseball is known as The American Past Time. The baseball community and its athletes continue to grow year after year, as young athletes develop love for the game and its year round battles. Majority of baseball fans and non-baseball fans have been to a major league game and have both seen and felt the energy of the setting. .Baseball is responsible for priceless moments such as a father and son playing catch in the back yard. Many people find baseball too slow and think doesn’t require much skill to play, but as many of my former coaches would say the game is 50% mental and 50% Physical. one of the only sports as my high school coach . A big reason why people are attracted to baseball is because it is one of the only sports that involves a skilled athlete vs another skilled athlete, pitcher verse batter, 1 verse 1. As baseball revolutionized throughout baseball it became bigger and bigger. It reached other countries and they picked up the sport quickly and made their own leagues. Today baseball is one of the most popular sports out of all. Our fore fathers created and established many important things that shaped America to be the way it is today but only one is known as “Americas Past Time”. Baseball originated prior to the civil war, at the time it was called rounders. Rounders...
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...Over the past decade, football in the ratings and the eyes of Americans surpassed baseball in popularity. Leading many sports writers and common sports fans to pronounce football as America’s new national past time. However, a national pastime is not created over a mere decade. A sport that encapsulates a nation shares feelings about an event or general trend in the country with the majority of the country and has events within the country interwoven within the sport. Even Professor Gerald Early at Washington University in Saint Louis said that “There are only three things that America will be remembered for 2000 years from now when they study this civilization: The Constitution, Jazz music, and Baseball.” Baseball best captures the essences...
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...Move over Baseball, Football is America’s New National Pastime Abstract The argument over which sport actually ranks as America’s national pastime is as enduring and intense as American sports themselves. Each and every week millions of Americans tune in to watch their favorite sports. Over the years baseball has traditionally been known as the national pastime among all sports, but the rich tradition and history behind baseball is almost certainly being slowly replaced by the glamour of football season. Although baseball is still referred to as America’s national pastime, football is by far the most popular sport in this country today. This can be attributed to many factors including a superior television product, more controlled violence, and legalized gambling with fantasy football. Keywords: national, pastime, football, baseball, sports, television, violence, gambling Move over Baseball, Football is America’s New National Pastime Each and every week millions of Americans tune in to watch their favorite sports. Basketball, baseball, football, golf, soccer, and racing all have a place and a market with the sports fans in America. Over the years baseball has traditionally been known as the national pastime among all sports, but the rich tradition and history behind baseball is being slowly replaced by the glamour of football season. Over the past two decades, baseball has been left behind while football has become America’s new national pastime (Gramling, 2010...
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...Abstract As you read, you will learn about the wonderful game of baseball and a different outlook on the sport. It is a popular sport in America. The rest of the world looks to America as a guiding force. They view America as the baseball empire of the world. Major league baseball is the envy of the world. Baseball has very broad cultural, social, and geographic impacts that go deeper than we think. We will briefly examine the diverse and changing social, economic, and political meanings of this activity in different countries. Baseball has failed in the promotion in many European and African societies and we will discuss why. Baseball is an international sport that brings great experiences and great memories that last a lifetime. It can be very important in the bond of family. The swing, techniques, bat and balls are important and we will learn why it’s important to have proper training. Also you will read about players that have tarnished the sport and players that have changed baseball forever. Mainly this is a view of the importance of the sport worldwide and how it has changed the world through the guidance of American baseballs influence on the rest of the world. Sport of Baseball Internationally this game is viewed as a very powerful game. Baseball is the same in many ways all over the world. Every player is aiming to knock the ball out of the park or just feel lucky to get on base. Although the game has changed, the history of the...
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...Baseball and America have grown up together. In fact, Baseball is such an integral part of our culture that we often take for granted its deep day-to-day significance in our lives. I. Baseball A. Baseball Basics 1. Baseball is a sport played between two teams usually of nine players each. 2. It is a bat and ball game in which a pitcher throws a hard, fist sized, leather covered ball toward a batter on the opposing team. 3. The batter attempts to hit the baseball with a tapered cylindrical bat, made of wood, or a variety of other materials. 4. A team scores runs only when batting, by advancing its players via hits counterclockwise past a series of four markers called bases arranged at the corners of a 90 foot square. 5. The game, played without time restriction, is structured around nine segments called innings. 6. In each inning, both teams are given the chance to bat and score runs. 7. A teams half inning ends when 3 outs are recorded against that team. 8. In the U.S., professional MLB teams are divided into the National League (NL) and American League (AL). 9. Each League has 3 divisions a. East b. West c. Central 10. 4 Teams make the playoffs from each league a. The 3 division leaders b. One wildcard team with the best record among the remaining teams in the league. 11. Each major league ream has a “farm system” of minor league teams at various levels. ...
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...Daniel Ochefu Baseball, Justice and the American Dream Final Paper Due: 5/1/2015 I ‘Like’ Baseball Before taking this course baseball was one of my least favorite things to do in any way simply because I did not know about the sport and the impact it has on many people’s lives to respect the time that the players spend preparing to perform. I was always critical of the amount of work that was put in physically for baseball compared to other sports like basketball, football, hockey and others. I always thought it was not that much because there are almost no physical collisions in games and that was all I really needed to know after I was told that on average games are three plus hours. From everything I have learnt about baseball in this course, there is a respect that I now have for it that I definitely did not have for it before. Being America’s pastime, baseball has been the one constant in America because of its deep history that it promotes and the pride that the fans exhibit. Even during unfortunate events that shake the whole country, baseball finds a way to bring the country together. The most recent one that stood out to me being how the Boston Red Sox brought together a whole city after the terrible Boston Marathon Bombings of 2013 by winning the World Series and using that to help strengthen a city that had been hurt badly by a terrible event. The World Series celebration is normally extravagant and well televised but this one brought all Americans together...
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...Mr. Baseball Mr. Baseball is a movie about cultural differences between American and Japanese baseball, featuring Tom Selleck who plays Jack Elliot. Jack plays on New York Yankees and is number two to the star rookie. He is arrogant and has a bad attitude, and is not coachable. Jack is signed to play in Japan, with the hopes to strengthen his career and return to back to play in the major leagues. When he arrives in Japan, Jack is introduced to new language barriers, differences in cultures, and differences in how the team’s attitudes are towards the game. When arriving in Japan, Jack faces a language barrier, he speaks English, while his manager and team speaks Japanese. This makes it hard for him to communicate and is assigned an interpreter. Thus, his interpreter tries to make Jack look better by saying different things than what Jack says to make Jack look better and not offending the Japanese culture. While dating Hiroko, his manager’s daughter, even though she does speak English, there is still the language barrier there with the translating between the two languages. Jack learns some Japanese to try and overcome some of the language barrier and try to be understanding of those that do not speak English as well. American and Japanese culture is very different. Gestures that Americans would not find offensives are found to be offensive in Japan. The first time that Jack enters the locker, he did not take off his shoes. The team got very offensive because it is respectful...
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...BaseballTyler Lucas Coach Thompson Baseball Through The years 1-22-15 Integration of Baseball Baseball is called “America’s past time”. Baseball can trace its origins as far back as Abner Doubleday in 1839. The Emancipation Proclamation was signed in 1863, and it freed more than 3 million enslaved African Americans. With this stroke of a pen, millions of lives were changed, African American and White American. For decades, white plantation owners had owned slaves and made them do various tasks for them. With slaves becoming free, the African American people were now free to do as they please. While social prejudices existed for many years after this, black Americans started to find their foothold in society. The Negro National League was started in 1920 and this upset many white Americans. The color barrier was broken on April 18, 1946 when Jackie Robinson signed with the Dodgers. The integration of baseball was a long process, because baseball was a game founded by white men that had a deep rooted superiority complex when it came to black people. Jackie Robinson was brought to the Brooklyn Dodgers by owner Branch Rickey. His first appearance was with the Dodgers’ affiliate the Montreal Royals of the International League. Robinson eventually joined the Brooklyn Dodgers and propelled them to the NL pennant. Branch Rickey had a plan to bring the best players from the Negro Leagues to the Dodgers and other teams in professional baseball. By 1952 there were 150 black players...
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...America and Baseball: If You Want to Know America, Then you better Know Baseball Sean R. Golob Western Governors University If You Want to Know America, Then you better Know Baseball Baseball hits a home run when it comes to comparing it to the American identity. Both baseball and the American identity have three aspects that are exactly the same; both are very diverse, both are rather competitive, and both are driven by business and money. America is a diverse country, according to US Census Bureau (2013) quickfacts reference page, “Caucasians alone total 77.7%, Hispanic and Latino alone 17.1%, and African American alone 13.2%”. However, America has races from every inhabitable continent; we have a large number of Asians, mass amounts of Europeans, and growing amounts of Latinos and African ethnicities. These aspects all put together combine to make a huge part of the definition of American identity. Along with diversity, another aspect that is used in the definition of American identity is business and corporations. Corporate America is one of the largest and wealthiest forms of business in the world. Wall Street deals with billions of dollars daily, corporations throughout the country grow in size and significance. Lastly, competition is the last big part of the definition because of the international trade, emphasize on sports and athletics, and between other rivalries between other countries. The same is with baseball in America;...
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...Michael Mainor EN106 – First Year Writing Seminar II: Academic Research & Writing Date : April 26, 2012 America vs. the World America the Beautiful, The Home of the Brave, words that we often hear as Americans in our patriotic way of life; however, are we as Americans so egocentric and or narcissistic in our way of life that we project our thoughts and way of life onto other countries in a global sense? As defined by freedictionary.com, to be egocentric is to view things from one’s own point of view as the only right. It also defines narcissistic as to be infatuated and obsessed with one’s self to exclusion of all others in a ruthless pursuit of one’s gratification, dominance, and ambition. There is absolutely nothing wrong with being proud and patriotic Americans. Although most people who live in America can agree that it is a great place to live, we should not project our way of life, as the only right way, onto other countries’ cultures, or people around the world, because when we do we take the risk of being viewed as America vs. the world. In the excerpt, Moral Disagreement, by Kwame Anthony Appiah, he discusses how different perspectives to any situation and or word(s) mean different things to others based on a variety of things: culture, religion, and morals to name a few. Appiah is a native of Ghana and because of his different upbringing and perspective he views things different. For example, “Many married women lived with their brothers, visiting their husbands...
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...| BASEBALL | Bernaditta Caballero | | Columban College-Barretto | 3/19/2012 | | Introduction: Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a batand touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond. Players on the batting team take turns hitting against thepitcher of the fielding team, which tries to stop them from scoring runs by getting hitters out in any of several ways. A player on the batting team can stop at any of the bases and later advance via a teammate's hit or other means. The teams switch between batting and fielding whenever the fielding team records three outs. One turn at bat for each team constitutes an inning and nine innings make up a professional game. The team with the most runs at the end of the game wins. Evolving from older bat-and-ball games, an early form of baseball was being played in England by the mid-eighteenth century. This game was brought by immigrants to North America, where the modern version developed. By the late nineteenth century, baseball was widely recognized as the national sport of the United States. Baseball is now popular in North America, parts of Central and South America and the Caribbean, and parts of East Asia. In North America, professional Major League Baseball (MLB) teams are divided into the National League (NL) and American League (AL), each with three divisions: East, West, and Central...
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...persons who actually effected the change. Be it a deliberate stand or just a serendipitous support, coaches and athletes all through the past century have utilized their involvement in sports to effectively alter the racial tenor of America. These athletes and coached have propelled our county forward into a more modern way of believing, and without their efforts we may not be able to revel in the respective equality we understand today. This effort was certainly not simple, however; these individuals most definitely conquered many hurdles as well as great suffering in order to surface as the true champions for advancement that they are seen as today. This research will educate us on how these individuals made it possible to accomplish this, what influence athletes made on societies opinions, and why they choose to actually take the stands to begin with....
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...roles they play and the words they speak. In this regard, these individuals are either "born Latino" or "achieve Latino". In contrast, athletes are often judged before they ever speak to the media. Our perception is formed based on how these individuals are portrayed or personified by the media. For this reason, it can be said that athletes have "Latino thrust upon them". Of all the major sports, Latinos have had the greatest impact on major league baseball. Today nearly 25% of the players in the major leagues were born in Latin America (Berry, 1). As such baseball provides a unique perspective on Latinos in the media. Players rarely provide insight into their personalities rather our perception is based upon what the media wants us to believe. In this regard, baseball media artifacts enable us to see how differently Latinos were personified in the media over time. In the end it will become apparent that while their growth and achievement on the field has escalated, media perceptions have remained relatively unchanged. Over the past century, there have been countless Hispanic players in the major leagues. Television has captured their advancement on the field and has created hundreds of media artifacts. For purpose of analysis herein, two media artifacts were selected. The first artifact was the ESPN 30 for 30 documentary, FernandoNation. This 30 for 30 media artifact is...
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...MLB’s International Expansion Thomas Cyhan June 25, 2012 Nina Campanicki The Major League Baseball team, Houston Astros was founded in 1962, known as the Colt .45s. However the process in creating this team took nearly a decade before they were able to throw out their first pitch as a MLB franchise. MLB refused consideration on multiple occasions to expand the National League from eight to ten teams until other potential owners would form a new baseball league called the Continental League to compete against the National League. Starting baseball operations in 1962, the Colt .45s changed their name in 1965 to the Houston Astros when Judge Roy Hofheinz became sole owner of the team. Houston was renamed the Astros to honor the city’s location as the nation’s space station. Since the Astros were created they have played in three stadiums; Colt Stadium from 1962 to 1964, the Astrodome from 1965 to 1999 and in their current home Minute Maid Park from 2000 to present time. Houston has only made it to the World Series once back in 2005 by defeating the St. Louis Cardinals, but lost to the Chicago White Sox in four games. The Astros have had some success in the late 90’s but still have not won a World Series. The team was sold in 2011 to Jim Crane for $610 million dollars. Originally the price tag for the franchise and 45% of the team’s new regional contract was $680 million but the team was discounted because in 2013 the team will be moving from the National League to the...
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...activity of this nature, and this is the ability to forget the destitution and difficulty of everyday life and the capability to be on a level playing field with many people that believe the same way, no matter what socio-economic class they represent. One sport in particular has transcended all other games, has continually been a psychological shelter from pain and hardships of life, and also a cultural rocket breaking through the social barriers in the American society. That sport is simply the most beloved American game of all, baseball. The purpose of this essay is to critically explore a myriad of aspects of life that have been changed due to sports, all the while concentrating on baseball as the main focal point. Further, this work will continually pose the question of how it is conceivable that a single and simple sport could greatly impact a country the way baseball has the United States. At the time of the first foreign inhabitants of North America, life was more difficult than someone of the twenty-first century could have imagined. The hardships were endured by every colonist nearly twenty-four hours a day, with little to relieve their minds of the complexities of early American life. Nonetheless, there was at least one aspect of life that offered them the ability to escape the perennial cruelties of life, and that was sports. Throughout the colonies, no matter north or south,...
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