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    decades and countless games‚ people tired of the slow‚ grind it out pace that baseball had to offer. As the technological boom continued to explode across the map in the early 1990s‚ the pace of life on our planet was speeding up by the day. Information was readily accessible at our fingertips‚ people could be reached on the go via cellphone‚ the list goes on. As people began to experience a greater deal of excitement‚ baseball did not change with the times. The strike shortened season of 1994‚ which

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    Since I was 7 years old‚ I have always participated in Greenwich’s very own Cardinal Baseball Camp. However‚ until last summer‚ I had always been one of the campers. This year I was an official volunteer of the camp. Everyday from 8 a.m. till 12 p.m.‚ me and approximately 30 other staff members at the camp would teach young kids how to play baseball. This camp is run very locally‚ and it is very personalized‚ something that should truly be valued in a large town like Greenwich. Although not

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    Growing up I played baseball to me baseball was everything i could think of. i couldn’t wait to the weekend so i could put on that dirty uniform and pick up the new bat and nice leather glove and play baseball. When i was young i played in a big park in NYC where everyone saw you play so as i grew up everyone expected me to continue playing baseball and get better and work hard my mother always signed me up for baseball and i met a lot of coaches who help me gain more talent throughout the years

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    In "Baseball: A History of America’s Game"‚ the Author Benjamin G. Rader discusses the history of baseball and how it developed to present day. Rader explains how baseball started as a simple game consisting of no rules besides the players using a stick to hit a ball and its constant evolution to what the game is today. He also displays several issues which America’s favorite sport has had while developing into the complex sport it is today. Although baseball has had several trials and tribulations

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    Learning the game of baseball is all about getting enough sleep. Going through the life time of one little league baseball player learning the game helps one understand the importance of sleep‚ attention‚ learning‚ and memory and how they can fit together to obtain success for the new ball player. It is like a cycle that helps the improvement of your memory‚ attention and learning. The cool thing is that it all comes from sleep. After the boy learns baseball‚ he can use these same concepts to

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    Before I was first playing baseball I wasn’t very good and didn’t understand it‚ I was running around like a chicken with my head cut off. I played t-ball and parent pitch and it was very fun‚ I could never really hit‚ but I could field pretty well‚ and I was always better than my peers. My parents loved baseball and were always very encouraging of how I played baseball‚ and how bad I was. Once I turned an unassisted triple play‚ Which means that I got 3 outs all by myself‚ In the same play to end

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    Baseball is a sport in which two teams meet for a period of 9 innings‚ score points by hitting a leather ball with a large bat‚ and then trying to make it around 3 bases and finishing by running over home base. But‚ Baseball is more than just hitting a ball and running around bases‚ and that is what makes it so much fun to play. Baseball has strategy and physical fitness. The sport requires at least 9 players on the field‚ as there are 9 positions on the field. 1st : the Pitcher‚ 2nd : the Catcher

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    The name is Jimmy Crutchfield‚ a man who was an important figure in the Negro Baseball League. Today many Americans in the world never give this man the credit he deserves‚ but that’s because many didn’t know him. Jimmy Crutchfield was an All-Star baseball player who played for four major Negro Baseball Leagues‚ including the American Giants who were the most dominant team in black baseball (wiki).Jimmy Crutchfield was a huge peril on the field; controlling the ball at his own speed. According to

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    meant one thing‚ baseball. Baseball was the greatest part of my life. I felt like superman when I took the pitcher’s mound. There was no better place to be. Baseball was my escape from everything. When I was on the mound I could tune anything else out. It was my stress relief‚ my get away‚ my sanctuary. On April 12th‚ 2007 I found out how strong my bond with baseball was. It had been a normal week during a normal senior year of high school. Procrastination‚ college talk‚ and baseball practice. There

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    completion in Major League Baseball has been greatly imbalanced since the strike shortened season of 1994. Competitive balance should exist when there are no clubs chronically weak because of Major League Baseball’s structural features. Proper competitive balance will not exist until every well-run club has a regularly recurring reasonable hope of reaching postseason play which is parity. One of the primary reasons for the competitive imbalance that does occur in Major League Baseball is difference in how

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