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Laura is a nice, shy, smart girl and she loves to play all kinds of sports like volleyball and basketball, but her most favorite sport of all is softball. Today is Laura’s first softball game she is excited and nervous at the same time, and all day all she could think about is what if I throw the ball the wrong way or what if I make a terrible throw or can’t catch the ball when the ball was being thrown right to her glove. Laura is also thinking about all of the good things that could happen too

or not the accolade is accurate, baseball is widely regarded as the “America’s pastime.” For the past 100 years the game has remained largely unchanged. The National and American leagues still compete for the World Series Pennant, games are nine innings, and there are four bases to round; except for the designated hitter experiment that stuck in the American League, baseball has been business as usual. Business has been changing over the past decade though, after the wildly popular Moneyball book

Steroid Abuse Hurts Baseball      The abuse of steroids among players in Major League Baseball is corrupting the image of America?s Pastime as well as endangering the health of those who use the illegal substances. The lack of testing and punishment for the use of illegal substances like steroids in the Major Leagues portrays a negative image to aspiring young athletes. They see their role models using steroids and becoming better athletes rather than seeing suspensions for the illegal behavior

“Baseball improving student’s well-being.” Baseball is a game played with two teams that are going against each other trying to score more runs than their opponent. Baseball is played on a diamond field. In order to play baseball you need a glove, bat, bases, umpires, coaches and players. Baseball is a team sport, it also teaches one how to work well with other people, one will become mentally strong while baseball, because baseball is a thinking man’s game, one will also learn how to think outside

It could be argued that the second episode of a TV series is even harder to get right than the pilot. The work a premiere puts in to getting viewers just hooked enough to come back for a second week, could easily be undone with a lackluster follow-up. Luckily, Pitch is showing no signs of hitting any such slump. In fact, “The Interim” was a step above the already fantastic pilot – the dialogue went from a bit overdramatic to realistic, and it proved Pitch is not a show that needs to rely on the same

Chicago will be able to ‘buy up’ all the good players leaving the small market cities such as Minneapolis, Cincinnati, and Phoenix with the less-talented left-overs. Additionally, teams that win more games and make the playoffs and World Series receive extra revenue from TV, thereby creating even more of a discrepancy if large market teams have an advantage in winning more games and playing in the post-season. In 1998, MLB Commission Bud Selig formed a panel to report on the economic conditions within

Steroid Abuse Hurts Baseball The abuse of steroids among players in Major League Baseball is corrupting the image of America's Pastime as well as endangering the health of those who use the illegal substances. The lack of testing and punishment for the use of illegal substances like steroids in the Major Leagues portrays a negative image to aspiring young athletes. They see their role models using steroids and becoming better athletes rather than seeing suspensions for the illegal behavior or

me that I shouldn’t work. They both give me anything I want. My father will go in at 3:30 in the morning and come home at 7 P.M. and If I have a baseball game I can always count to see him watching in the stands, even if he can just watch a couple innings. My mother no matter how late she comes home, she never fails to put a hot plate on the table. Ever since I could remember, i’ve played baseball. My older brothers are a big inspiration to me. They’ve been in

Softball isn’t all smiles and winning. Sometimes things could almost get sweet. For instance, we were the first team to ever beat Gladstone. I remember it was the second game of the season and we were playing at the dome. I remember Zeke punching the air, “Hell yeah! That’s what I want to see!” and telling us we didn’t have to clean up the equipment because we had won. We went home on a high, so incredibly proud to be on that team. I remember practices were sometimes a dreaded event. It was

and database that relate to the World Series, Royals and Economy. For the first time in 30 years, the Kansas City royals won the World Series. Not only was this win monumental for the royals record but also it was an amazing game that was won in extra innings. The excitement in KC was unimaginable. The parade brought out what was estimated at about 800,000 Royals fans. Since the Royals had not won the World Series in 30 years the city went wild. This monumental moment in history meant lots of spirit