Referee's Video-Ization In Professional Baseball

Traditional Literacy is perhaps the most essential tool we will ever pick up, though learning it is a slow rigorous process that truly never ends. Usually early in childhood a child is taught a basic understanding of literacy which lays the groundwork for the continued refinement of these skills is key to improving our ability to communicate to others. The only way I can compare this process to something similar would be to parallel learning the steps of traditional literacy with those of picking up baseball, a sport I have spent almost my whole life participating in. I have found that the progressions for understanding the game of baseball are similar to those of learning how to gain literacy in a language. Each of these paths of development include some of the same strategies such as repetition to memorize an action, a coach/ teacher to teach and mentor, differing

My experience with volleyball gave me the opportunity to have a job at UNG, as an intramural volleyball referee. Being a referee is not an easy task. Along with the terminology used by the players and coaches, there is a different set of terminology for referees. Every referee must learn a set of hand signals and motions

3. The referees make lots of calls during the game, because there are many little rules that the players have to be aware of. Some of the most popular rules for refs to call are “shooting space”, crease violations, and dangerous checking.

Major League Baseball is an organization steeped in tradition and custom. Nothing short of an Executive Order is necessary to alter the rules that govern the sport. While that may be a slight exaggeration, the foundation of the game has remained largely unchanged on the professional level for decades. That said, a recent change in the rules has stirred a bit of controversy among managers, players and fans.

Has the question of how analytics is used by MLB front offices and coaches ever gone through your mind? MLB teams have thought of new, and very innovative way to use these new set of statistics. They have developed the new concept of defensive shifting, and the coaches have now been able to access many more different resources. These stats have given teams help to evaluate the level current players are playing at. The new wave of analytics gives teams a much different perspective of how to scout and manage the game. The groundbreaking wave of analytics has lead to the defensive shift, the different way of evaluating players, resources for coaches, sabermetrics, and the predicting of player injuries.

"Baseball as America." Academic Search Premier. Spec. issue of USA Today Magazine 1 Apr. 2002: n. pag. EBSCO. Web. 1 Dec. 2015. The Baseball Hall of Fame is an iconic American landmark, which houses thousands of artifacts from baseball's crude beginnings to its current day glory. This piece is simple, yet it demonstrates what an important aspect of American culture baseball has become. The artifacts demonstrate how far baseball has come, among its highlights are Jackie Robinson's uniform, articles from the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, and even "Shoeless" Joe Jackson's cleats. Pictures accompany the article which adds the needed bit of glamour to illustrate how greatly baseball has influenced American

The evolution of baseball has changed everything about baseball everything is different since the beginning ,including the players and how they play every new era has been better and their knowledge and how the play.The new generation of baseball players are showing baseball something they have never seen before.

■The ball is dead immediately if the runner touches the ground with any part of his body except his hands or feet while in the grasp of an opponent.

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

It is the referee’s job to catch wrongdoing & the athletes & coaches have no inherent responsibility to follow the rules.

The younger technology driven generation makes a case for the use of instant replays standing on the platform that if we have the technology and ability to get a call correct why not use all the tools available to do so. The older more traditional generation of sports fans argue that sports in America has been played this way for years and that human error is part of the game. Why people are against using instant replay is that they say it will slow down the game. But none of the officials are super and can get every call right and fair but with televised replays they can. The instant replays allow the officials to modify a bad call that could’ve been a game

There are a series of periods that teams go through in making their decisions. The first is the preparation period, where the coaches and players anticipate the actions the opponents intend to perform and the probability of the actions. This early stage process is the one where video observation is used, studying the opponent’s strengths, weaknesses, and styles of play.

The GMs are expected to discuss the offside rule as it relates to the coach's challenge.

Aside from Joe Crawford’s vibrant personality, his experiences as one of the best NBA referees in history speak profoundly on spirituality in sports. As a fan of his, I always viewed Crawford as a very tough-minded referee. He talked about officiating is never black and white. Even though there is a rulebook, it can never cover all the scenarios that happen in a real game situation. In a sense, this rule applies to real life as well. Most of the things in this world are not black and white situations. For example, nobody can say that he or she is better than another person in every aspect, no commercial products can truly be defined as the best, and God can never be defined one way or the other.

It is important to remember that officiating, like playing the game, is a recreational. Officiating is also only part-time in nearly all instances and "the vast majority would have second jobs" (What's It Like Being a NCAA Basketball Referee?). However, what distances officiating from being part-time and recreational is the lucrative pay. For example, for a game in the Albuquerque Youth Basketball League, regardless of grade level, which ranges from 2nd to 8th, the referee is payed $22 per game. Games are typically an hour in this league and mostly held on weekends. Referees can expect to ref anywhere from 1-6 games a weekend, so the pay is rewarding given the time spent working. If one is physically in shape, officiating is an easy way to