Eng. W131-29
Final Draft Paper #4 Research Proposal/Annotated Bibliography
11/10/13
Should Baseball Pitchers be Required To Wear Helmets?
Proposal
Sports now days are starting to look into safer and better equipment for athletes to reduce the amount of injuries. A big topic going around in sports today are whether or not pitchers should have to wear helmets. This has come to the attention of many sports officials, because of the amount of pitchers that have been hit in the head recently. Batters wear helmets; catchers wear helmets; should pitchers do the same? The pitchers are only sixty feet and six inches away from the batter and the ball can come off of the bat up to 110 mph. A 110 mph baseball hitting off of a pitchers head can result into a devastating injury if the ball …show more content…
"Incoming! Should Pitchers Be Made To Wear Helmets Before Someone Gets Killed? At One Time, They Did." SportsGrid RSS. N.p., 9 May 2013. Web. 28 Oct. 2013.
In the article, “Incoming! Should Pitchers Be Made To Wear Helmets Before Someone Gets Killed? At One Time, They Did.” it talks about the importance of helmets and also what some pitchers think about the helmets. It even talks about how at one point; the Pittsburg Pirates pitchers wore helmets. This article does seem like a reliable source using Forbes as a resource for some of its information. The article is objective. It talks about the importance of helmets and also talks about the opinions of pitchers. The author of the article is Rick Chandler.
This article fits into my research, because it talks about the benefits of helmets and also talks about what pitchers think of the helmets. There are plenty of good examples in my article as well. I feel as though the article is fairly scholarly with all that it talks about. My topic is already narrow so this article does not help in narrowing it down much. The article has me considering that helmets could be a very useful and helpful accessory for