Case Study: The Lincoln Little League

In his autobiography Life Lessons from Little League, Vincent Fortanasce says “Winning is never final, and losing is never fatal.” At the end of a game, one team will win and the other will lose. Failure to accept this concept has become detrimental to American youth sports organizations. Our society has become infatuated with winning, and all of the additional perks associated with it. What is considered the “best” for children as young as five years old has grown to an unrealistic extent. Parents want their children to be in a reputable organization, young athletes want to play with highly skilled teammates, and coaches want to recruit talented players all in hopes of being the absolute “best”. The amount of young athletes, ranging from five to fourteen years old, participating in local sports organizations has declined within the last two decades due to the highly competitive and unhealthy environments they are being exposed to.Taking pride in your local community has decreased form an athletic point of view. Representing the place I grew up in was a motivating factor when I put my uniform on for every single softball game I played in high school. I had the privilege to play on the field next to girls I had grown to love the sport with ever since our tee ball days. Today, young athletes are branching out from their homegrown roots to play for club teams who recruit players from a larger region. The popularity of traveling teams has substantially diluted the

The Vital Baseball organization was founded in early 2015 in the northern part of the state of Utah. The strategic plan of the founding managers was to build an organization that supports youth baseball at every age level. “First and foremost, strategic planning is a process” (Abraham, 2012, p. 1.7). This process is not to be taken lightly and the Vital

Before we told our daughters that they could be anyone, or anything they wanted to be, we told them that they could only be what was acceptable for women to be, and that they could only do things that were considered "ladylike." It was at this time, when the nation was frenzied with the business of war, that the women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League decided that they could do and be whatever it was that they chose. These women broke free of the limitations that their family and society had set for them, and publicly broke into what had been an exclusively male sport up until that time.

"According to the 2000 Census Bureau’s states there are 5.2 million children in our country that have disabilities between the ages of five and 19, and with young adults the number increases substantially." (Miracle League, 2013). Teams are divided by age and ability, which means that it is possible to have children from a wide range of ages on the same team if they play at a similar mental and physical level. There are three divisions of play, non-competitive, intermediate, and competitive. The difference is the teaching of regular baseball fundamentals in the competitive division. In non- competitive every child bats, runs, and last batter scores a home run. Intermediate division is in the middle of non-competitive and competitive division (Miracle League, 2013).

When asked to describe a baseball the first word generally voiced is white, and before April 15, 1947 that is exactly what the game of baseball was, white. “There is no law against Negroes playing with white teams, or whites with colored clubs, but neither has invited the other for the obvious reason they prefer to draw their talent from their own ranks” (‘42’). These were the feelings of people living in 1947, that blacks and whites were not meant to play baseball together. Then, why decades earlier, had there been an African American in the league? In 1887, an African American Pitcher, George Stovey, was expected to pitch a game with Chicago, however, the first baseman, Cap Anson, would not play as long as Stovey was on the field. Other

Softball has been my passion since I was first introduced at age five, and by eight, I was thrilled to advance into playing competitive travel ball. Travel ball even gave me the opportunity to play in the National ASA softball tournament in Virginia when I was fourteen. Unfortunately, there were not enough volunteers and the local travel programs dwindled.

Blue and orange are colors on New York City's flag. Brooklyn Dodgers were blue, and the New York Giants were orange. After the Dodgers and the Giants left for California, the Mets were sort of seen as their spiritual successors, so they inherited the colors of both teams. The Metropolitan Club (the New York Metropolitan's or the Mets) was a 19th-century professional baseball team that played in New York City from 1880 to 1887. The New York Metropolitan Baseball Club was the name originally in 1961 for the current day New York Mets

Get ready to cheer on your Chino Hills High Baseball team this year Huskies! Varsity coaches, Coach Kevin Chavez and Coach Sean Casey are looking to lead this year’s team to another winning season to capture first place in League. This year’s Varsity team has a deep pitching rotation that is essential for the team’s success. This rotation includes: Dakota Fine, Carson Conradt, Chris Chavez, Jacob Hobson, Ricky Walczak, Michael Rogers, Noah Calderon, Preston Kelly, and Mikey Rosales. The team’s offense will be capped by Cal State Fullerton commit Brett Borgogno and Chris Chavez’s power bat. The team’s biggest asset when it comes to winning will be playing “ small ball.” “ Small ball” is the element of the game that is seen as small, but effective,

The Federal Baseball Club was a member of the Federal League of Baseball Players. This case was often called the Federal Baseball Ruling (Baseball-reference). It was believed that the National League of Professional Baseball Club and the American League of Professional Baseball Club conspired to monopolize the business of Professional Baseball by buying out members of the Federal League and by telling the members of the Federal League to leave. Monopolize is defined as either a group or organization that obtain exclusive possession or control. The federal league declared to be a third major league, having competition with the national league and the American league in 1914 (Baseball-reference). While competing for players and bringing in

Keith spoke about the Congressional Women’s Softball League that plays every year for the Young Survival Coalition, a breast cancer foundation intended to help women under the age of 40 who are battling breast cancer.

In summary, Lone Star Play Ball Southwest should continue to market itself as an organization formed as an opportunity for special needs adults to enjoy the game of softball and sell the experience it provides to anyone that joins their community. Proper branding will allow the organization to create a strong brand, gain long-term customer trust and loyalty, and maintain its competitive

In March 2013, the Professional Baseball Association selected Victoria City, Victoria (“Victoria City”) to host the league’s 2015 All-Star Game (“All-Star Game”). R. 2. The Victoria City Board of Supervisors (“Board”) and the Association agreed that the game would be held on July 14, 2015. R. 2. The game would be held at Cadbury Park, a stadium in the Starwood Park neighborhood in the downtown area of Victoria City. R. 2.

Lone Star should continue to market itself as an organization formed as an opportunity for special needs adults to enjoy the game of softball and sell the experience it provides to anyone that joins their community. Volunteers are at the heart of the league just as much as the participants and you can feel the excitement when you go out to the fields to watch the games. Lone Star Play Ball Southwest encompasses the heart and desire to change the lives of these participants, family members, and

For prospects that are forced into the minor leagues for development, the road to the majors has proven a grueling process and the majority of players never make it to the major leagues. Extremely low salaries and bonuses in the minor leagues has become an ongoing, controversial topic between MLB commissioner Bud Selig and minor league players 17. A fast food worker makes between $15,000 and $18,000 a year, which is two or three times as large as minor league players’ average salary, so minor league players are forced to have multiple jobs throughout the year 18. The majority of minor league players lie below the federal poverty level and while MLB salaries are rapidly increasing, minor leagues salaries remain constant. The MLB receives exemptions

their team to teams with deeper pockets. The A’s have the least money of any major league team. The cards are stacked against them with no star players, no money, and no edge in scouting new players. About six months later, the team had won more than 100 games including a twenty-game winning streak in August. (2002 Oakland Athletics Season, 2017) How did they do it? By all measures used at that time, the A’s should’ve had a down year. They should have been one of the weakest teams in baseball. Despite this, they finished first in their division and tied for the most wins in the league. (2002 Oakland Athletics Season, 2017) The secret to their success was data driven analysis of player performance, which they used to find