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Jim Abbott
It is a clear summer night at Fenway Park in Boston. The Boston Red Sox and the
California Angels are in a hot pennant race. The Boston Red Sox are the best hitting team in the American League. The Angels need a win and are counting on their rookie pitcher. The old green stadium is overflowing with die-hard Red
Sox fans as the rookie takes the mound. He has to concentrate on tonight's game and ignore the crowd. The game advanced with no trouble for the rookie. In the end, he gave up four harmless hits and, most importantly, no runs. When he got the final man out, giving his team a 4-0 victory, he starts to walk off the mound. All over Fenway Park, not only Angel fans, but Red Sox fans stood and applauded, cheering the rookie off the field. Everyone knew that they had seen someone very special. This person was Jim Abbott. Jim Abbott has led an eventfully life. He brought his college team to the championship in 1985, brought Team USA to gold in 1988, and threw a no hitter against the Cleveland
Indians in 1993. These achievements are not what make him so special; what makes Jim Abbott even more remarkable is that he only has one hand. As a child
Jim's parents always told him that he could do anything he wanted to do. They knew that their son loved sports. They hoped that Jim would play soccer, which didn't require the use of hands, but right from the very beginning, Jim loved baseball. So, Jim's parents bought him a baseball glove. However, Jim was not just involved in baseball. He was the top scorer in his school's intramural basketball league, and played two years of varsity football. Jim's various athletic exploits resulted in press attention. When Jim got to college, he picked up right where he had left off in high school. His two main goals were to get an education and to become the best possible pitcher he could be. At this point, his fastball was close to ninety miles per hour. Jim to worked hard on a straight change-up and a better curveball. In the fall of 1987, Jim Abbott was given the United States Baseball Federation's coveted Golden Spikes Award.
This award is given yearly to the best amateur baseball player in the country.
That wasn't his only award. He also received the Academy Award for Sports Award for Courage in 1987 and was chosen as the March of Dimes Amateur Athlete of the
Reds clocked his fastball at 92 miles per/hour. He a; so had a batting average
Toronto Blue Jays Team History & Encyclopedia. (n.d.). Baseball-Reference.com. Retrieved January 21, 2014, from http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/TOR/
In 1983 Roger Clemens was drafted in the first round, 19th overall, by the Boston Red Sox. In 1986 he won 24 games, received the American League MVP award, and his Red Sox played in and lost the World Series. Within that same year Clemens struck out 20 batters in one game. He was the first of only three pitchers to accomplish this feat and he repeated it again in 1996 just before leaving the Red Sox.
Today’s Baltimore Orioles were yesterday’s Milwaukee Brewers, with yesterday meaning 1894-1901. For the first six years the Brewers were a part of the Western League, which was a minor league. In 1900, the Western League declared itself a major league opposite of the National League (NL). The Western League then became the American League (AL) with only eight teams competing. The Brewers finished the year with a 48-89 record, good for last in the AL. The team relocated to St. Louis after the season and became the Browns.
As a 20 year old youth in 1883, Billy played baseball in the lots of his neighborhood in Marshalltown, Iowa. One day the captain for the Chicago White Sox, A.C. Anson, was in the lots watching all the teenagers, young adults, and Billy Sunday playing baseball. Anson was so impressed with what he had seen in Billy’s baseball performance that Billy was signed unto the White Sox soon after.
forging Hall of Fame careers. The Cincinnati Reds, on the other hand, had its share of stars,
Giants in the World Series. Babe was not a factor at all in this pitiful series
Finally, the ballgame begins, as the Red Sox take field led by the rookie pitcher Jon Lester, who is making his major league debut. Lester is now one my favorite Red Sox players because of this moment. The Red Sox ended up losing the game that day, but for me even though the Red Sox lost, I felt like I was in Heaven. I cherish this moment because it was my first Red Sox game at Fenway. I only get go to one Red Sox game a year if we can afford it. I know to cherish this moment, because to me this day is like Christmas, it only happens once a year. I love going to Red Sox games with Phil because it is time I am spend alone with him. I hope that I can go this year, to go back my baseball heaven, Fenway. To me this experience is important, because it taught me to cherish the moments, and not have regrets.
On June 2, 1925, Lou Gehrig officially took over first base from an ailing Wally Pipp (Hickok). This was the beginning of his fourteen-year tenure in Major League Baseball. His breakout year was in 1926, where he hit .313 and led the league with twenty triples (“Biography”). It was the first of twelve consecutive seasons hitting more than .300. The following year, he hit .373 with forty-seven home runs and 175 runs batted in (Hickok). He earned most valuable player (MVP) that same year (Hickok). Gehrig got MVP honors again in 1936 when he hit .354 along with a league-leading forty-nine home runs and 152 RBI’s (Hickok). When it came to the World Series, Lou Gehrig always stepped up. In 1928 against the St. Louis Cardinals, Gehrig had four home runs and nine RBI’s with a .545 average (“Biography”; Hickok). Additionally, Gehrig racked up three home runs, nine runs scored, eight RBI’s, and a .529 average (Hickok). In thirty-four World Series games, Gehrig had thirty-five RBI’s, thirty runs scored, eight doubles, three triples, ten home runs, and an average of .361
The American Revolutionary war was primarily fought between the American colonies and Great Britain from 1775 to 1783. Following the war great, political, social, and economic changes shaped the new nation and its government. This independence led to the drafting of several historical documents and brought about a new democratic form of government, limiting its size and power, while also establishing more individual rights. Because of the major changes, specifically political, I believe that the American Revolution was in fact, a revolution.
Nemee, David. “100 Years of Major League Baseball.” Lincolnwood, Illinois: Publications Infernational, Ltd, 200. Print.
Over history America has changed. From its culture and weapons to its geography and foreign relations, nothing stays the same for long. As America changes, so does its pastime-baseball. If the pros were to walk into a game from the 1800s, they would be lost. Nearly every part of baseball has changed; the field, the equipment, the arrangement of the teams, the way people play the game, even the ball has been tweaked. The only thing that stays the same from decade to decade, century to century, is all that really matters. . . our country’s love for the game.
Baseball is one of the world's greatest sports and is played almost everywhere in the world. It is also one of the most historic games. The main historic part of baseball deals with the ballparks, the cities, and the teams that have been around for such a long time. Then you have the one and only Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox. Fenway Park is the longest standing and is still being used of all the Major League ballparks in the United States. Throughout the 100 years of Fenway Park's existence it has been built, named, burned down, rebuilt, and a whole lot of adding on to the ballpark.
James tried to find his place in life, his interest was boxing, and his idol was Bo Jack the boxer. He did do some semi- pro boxing in his days, and played baseball. Due to a leg injury, baseball was no longer possible. He then turned to his real passion music, and decided to pursue a musical career (Brenchley, 2003, DVD).
Several strategies are available for dealing with this problem. One approach is to pool all ordered mediators as a single mediator of interest and decompose the total effect into effect through or not through this pooled mediator 17, 18. Another approach is to assume a strong cross-world assumption to measure the upper and lower bounds of PSE through sensitivity analysis, while the point estimation of PSE is still unable to be obtained 19. Lin and VanderWeele have proposed an interventional approach to estimate analogues of path-specific effects under no unmeasured confounding assumptions with a regression based approach and a corresponding SAS code 20. However, several limitations of this method are noted. One is that the outcome has to follow an ordinary linear regression model, and that it cannot be adapted to non-linear or generalized linear models. Moreover, unlike the analysis of overall effect, the analytical solutions for all PSEs estimation vary substantially in different models even the outcome follows linear model. Therefore, the software based on has only few model