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    The 1990s Sports History

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    1990s Sports Sports has many different events that has changed its history. During the 1990 seasons there were different events that changed sports history. There was a MLB player strike, events that changed basketball players lives and records set. One event was the 1994 MLB player strike. The MLB strike created multi-million dollar contract for players. Another event was the Chicago Bulls three peats. A three peat is when the Bulls won three straight championships in a row, and

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    After getting 27 straight outs today Randy Johnson becomes the oldest pitcher, at 40 years old, to ever throw a perfect game. The Diamondbacks beat the Braves 2-0 tonight. He struck out 13 of the 27 batters and was only in one count that reached 3 balls. This perfect game comes as the 17th of all time. Most 40 year old pitchers get worse as the game goes on but that was quite the opposite tonight for the southpaw. Cy Young threw a perfect game in 1904 at the age of 37. He also held the record

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    One of the most well know players of all time is Jennie Finch. Finch, like many great players, started playing the game very early on in her life at the age of five. Just a mere three years later she pitched her first ball. During Finch's high school career she was known for being an athletic girl. Her senior year she was Captain of her volleyball team, basketball team, and softball team. Finch lettered in softball in all of her high school years and most recently in 2016 Finch’s high school, La

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    The Pittsburgh Pirates, a MLB baseball team playing in PNC Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, offers fans a baseball game product that includes the team, individual players, in-game entertainment, stadium experience, concessions, merchandise, and customer service. With the 20 losing seasons behind them, the Pirates have built their marketing on the strength and talent of the team, rather than in game quality entertainment and the highly rated “best ballpark” in America. Despite raising ticket prices

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    Moneyball Thesis

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    In the book Moneyball by Michael Lewis, talks about the traditional methods in how to choose a ball player and it tell also told me about Bill Beane's unsuccessful career as a baseball player. The five tools or abilities that a baseball scout looks for is run, throw, hit, and hit with power. A guy with wheels means a guy could run. A guy with strong arm had a hose. Each time a baseball scout scouted Billy Beane all they saw was a future big league star. Mets had the first pick of the 1980, Major

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    Billy Beane's Moneyball

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    Giambi, Johnny Damon, and Jason Isringhausen leave to join other teams in the free agency. Billy Beane, the team's general manager, responded with a series of under-the-radar free agent signings such as David Justice, Randy Verlarde, and Justin Duchscherer. The new-look Athletics, despite having no star power what so ever, surprised the baseball world by having the best 2001 team's regular season record. The team is most famous, however, for winning 20 consecutive games between August 13 and September

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    Cricket news: Aussie ‘Invincible’ Arthur Robert Morris died at 93 Arthur Morris former Australian opener, who was the leading run-scorer in the notable 1948 Ashes series in England, died at the age of 93. Arthur Morris was the most aged living test cricketer of Australia and one of the members of Don Bradman’s ‘Invincibles’ team. Arthur Morris a legend batsman One of the finest batsman of all time of Australia, Arthur Morris was a left hand opening batsman who made his test debut in 1946 at the

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    Outside of rostering Judge, Harper, Trout, and Cano, there are plenty of cheaper, under the radar options that have been maintaining consistency. Here are a few standouts. Chris Owings: Owings is truly a jack of all trades. Wherever the DBacks need him, he is there, whether he plays outfield, shortstop or second base, although his primary role is shortstop. Drafted by the Diamondbacks in 2009 out of high school. He made his major league debut in Sept of 2013. He spent sometime prowling around the

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    Have you ever been asked the question, “If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go?” Well, I have always said San Francisco. San Francisco is one of the most beautiful places in the world. They have the San Francisco Bay, Golden Gate Bridge, and many sport teams. To begin with, The Golden Gate Bridge is one of many attractions in San Francisco. The bridge was built in 1937 by Joseph Strauss and Charles Ellis. The bridge stretches 8,981 feet with a height 746 feet. The bridge

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    The Oakland A’s were a poor team. They could not afford to shop for costly players like teams who were considered “rich” did. So, the A’s were bound by money to find “bargain” athletes. This problem repeatable showed up in baseball’s history and baseball management continued to handle the problem the same way- by blindly trusting the system. The overall question was how could a poor team improve their standings? How can they overcome the biggest hurdle of money without being financially unstable

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