If you’ve ever noticed the trademark “W” on a professional home plate umpire’s facemask, it’s the trademark of Wilson umpire gear. Wilson is an industry leader in supplying all kinds of athletic equipment. They are especially known for outfitting the men and women who call balls and strikes, safes and outs. The Mark of a Professional Wilson umpire gear includes everything from equipment bags specially designed for umpires, to ball bags and indicators. Each piece of umpire equipment is manufactured with the comfort and protection of the umpire in mind. From behind home plate, Wilson facemasks proudly display the trademark company logo every night during the Major League Baseball season. Underneath the well-dressed umpire, you’ll find full
High tech aluminum baseball bats aren’t quite as new to the game as many people may think. Author, Patrick Hruby, wrote in Sports Illustrated, “introduced in the mid-1970’s… metal bats have become increasingly potent, forged with alloys… pressurized air chambers” (Hruby 42). Over the last few decades these aluminum ‘killer bats’ have evolved to be even more potent. “Some coaches and players claim these powerful bats are ruining the integrity of the game and placing pitchers at undue risk” (42). Every college, divisions I through III, are using these bats religiously. Each year bigger and better bats are at each team’s fingertips. A few of the more popular bats this year are the TPX C555 Platinum, TPX Omaha, and the EASTON Redline, just to name a few. These bats are so advanced that almost everything about them has changed, for instance, “…an
Albert G. Spalding created the first major league baseball glove. “Wearing a glove just wasn’t manly” said Smithsonian. It used to be that the strongest player on the field was whoever had the most broken fingers or blisters, but after a while, players realised they
Nathan Hale was born on June sixth, 1755, in Coventry, Connecticut. Richard Hale and Elizabeth Hale were his parents. Nathan had nine siblings. Enoch Hale was the most acknowledged sibling of Nathan Hale. Education was important to both of them. In addition to learning, Nathan was interested in wrestling, football, broad jumping, and women. Resources state that he was “the idol of all his acquaintances”, which was the reason for everyone’s admiration for him. This was one important part of Hale’s remembrance.
In order for all these players to make money and play the way they do, they need good equipment. Most of the players have sponsors or people who represent them like many well-known brands. Many of these sponsors will give them like bats, balls, or gloves to try out to see what they like the best and to represent the company. If they do not like the object they got from them they can send it back and get a new one they like to use. The players have to go by what they like best and how it feels to them when they play. If a player has a glove that they don’t like it’s not going to feel right when they go to catch the ball and they might drop it, causing them and the team they’re playing for money.
Football is a sport your mother warns you not to play, but your father is on the other side of the argument, encouraging you to do it because it is a “man’s game”. Even though you don’t want ruin your manhood, your mother is always right. Football is in the top three of most injuries caused in sports (HEALTH GRADES, INC) and a majority of it comes from concussions. A concussion is a temporary unconsciousness caused by a blow to the head. Football helmets are used to prevent that from happening and is still a battle today on creating the perfect helmet to protect these young athletes. The football helmet has undergone significant transformation during the evolution of the game. To find out how this important head gear came to be, you have to
What does Sairy say the Wilsons have been to the Joads? She says that they have been nothing but trouble.
In the essay “In Defense of Masks,” by Kenneth Gergen, he states how people do not “normally develop a coherent sense of identity” (Gergen 2). Gergen talks about how we as people may “experience severe emotional distress,” (Gergen 2) instead of having a set identity. The difference between the idea of multiple identities that are represented by masks and having a coherent sense of identity of one’s true self, is that having a coherent sense of identity means that a person stays the same in every situation and never changes. On the other hand, having multiple identities that are represented by masks means that one’s identity is ever changing and shifting depending on the situation that they are in and the people who surround them. However, even
Manning Marable was an African American born on May 13th 1950. He was born and raised in Dayton, Ohio. Both of his parents were graduates of Central State Ohio. (A historical black university in nearby Wilberforce). He graduated from Jefferson Township High School. He then went on to earn his bachelor's degree of arts in (1971), his master's degree (1972) and Ph.D. (1976) in history at the University of Wisconsin, and University of Maryland. Furthermore, Manning Marable is an advocate for tolerance through his literary work, including Black leadership, How capitalism underdeveloped black America, and The Greta wells of democracy.
A catcher wears shin guards that were designed to protect him from hits from balls and bats (Catcher's Equipment 9). Bats and balls can cause damage and hurt if someone gets hit with them. Shin guards were made to try to minimize the amount of injuries. Helmets that a catcher wears is the most important gear they can wear. The helmets are made to keep the top, back, and sides of the head safe from any type of forceful blow (Catcher’s Equipment 4). Head injuries are very serious, and are mostly caused by hits to the head, but catcher’s gear can help prevent such injuries to the catcher. Baseball has been around for over one hundred years and throughout that time, gear has been helping players. In 1907, catchers began to wear protective gear, and that gear has been changed to help protect catchers in years since (Catcher’s Equipment 2). Catcher’s gears has been improved on very frequently, and it will keep following that pattern so catchers can be as safe as they can. Since MLB has rules in place that help lower the impact of home plate collisions, if one does occur, the gear that the catcher’s wear can only help protect the catcher even
Jackson Katz is the founder of Mentors in Violence Prevention which is an education program that has been focused on military and sporting organizations in attempts to put a halt on gender violence. Other than being an educator, Katz is also an author and filmmaker. In 2013, he produced the film Tough Guise 2. In this film, Katz reviews the normalization of male jurisdiction in America. The film looks at the messages of gun violence, sexism, and bullying that are sent to men throughout their entire life. Tough Guise 2 argues the statement that male brutality is a rooted back to our cultural standards of manhood. A pivotal point of the film is that a male’s masculinity is not just handed to them, it must be earned. During the course of the film, this point is supported by examples such as gun violence, homophobic messages and mass shootings.
August Wilson the writer behind Fences was born on April 27, 1945 in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, PA. August Wilson birth name was Frederick August Kittel Jr. he was the son of a German immigrant named Frederick August Kittel and to an African American woman named Daisy Wilson. Wilson was the fourth of six children and the oldest son. As a child Wilson attended St. Richard’s Parochial School. After his parents divorced his mother, his siblings and him moved from the poor Bedford Avenue area of Pittsburgh to a mostly white suburb in the Oakland section. After facing constant discrimination from his classmates at Central Catholic High School he decided to transfer to Connelly Vocational High School and later moved to Gladstone High School.
The equipment players use has also changed, making the game safer to play and more enjoyable to watch. In the early stages of baseball, very little equipment was used-there were no gloves and no helmets. The first time gloves were used was in the 1860s, logicall...
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Have you ever worn a mask before? Maybe the mask wasn't a costume mask, but it was a mask to make you seem happy, or seem cool, or anything that made you feel like something than you are not normally. Chances are you have. Trying to fit in with the crowd, a mask is used to obtain the things we cannot reach on our own. Masks are especially common today because of the pressures to belong to the 'in'; group, or the pressures to succeed. Books, using masks, commonly show the many connotations of masks. They are used to find out what people are for real, on the inside of the mask. The imagery of masks is used throughout the book of Twelfth Night. Shakespeare uses the imagery of masks to reveal characters true emotions and to express the power of raw beauty. Shakespeare uses this imagery through all of his characters in the play, but especially the two characters of Viola and Feste.
This was created in 2002 to look after people in the work environment, the people are made to wear the right clothing for work to prevent them from any hazard at a workplace. This is very vital for my sports club because