Essays on Baseball

To be given the chance to play baseball was one of the greatest times of my life. I played baseball for four years, and every year I made the all-star team. My best friend and I played on every regular season team and every all-star...

Many people might think that swinging the bat straight through the ball would be enough to hit the ball a decent distance off the bat. There’s many more mechanics involved in the swinging process. Muscle has only a small part to play in the swinging...

An American Hero is someone who puts others before themselves and does good deeds throughout his or hers home life and community. Also someone who has a positive impact on on a person or a group of individuals. Someone to look up to and follow...

Kyle Lohse is a former American professional baseball player who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Minnesota Twins, Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals, Milwaukee Brewers, and Texas Rangers. Kyle Lohse was born on October 4th, 1978 in Ord Bend, California and...

The month of September is two-thirds over, and we can smell the playoff baseball of October just on the horizon. These times are always exciting because teams in tight divisional races either become greater when the lights brighten or lose the steam that they initially...

“ Did you know that Babe Ruth hit 708 home runs in 1934. And he holds the record for the most seasons with 40 plus home runs. Babe Ruth was a professional baseball player. Babe Ruth was a outfielder he had a of nicknames. His...

Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier when he became the first black athlete to play Major League Baseball in the 20th century. He joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947 and was named Rookie of the Year that year, National League MVP in 1949 and a...

Michael Lewis’ Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game had revolutionized the way baseball world think about the game. Lewis told the story of a small market team with low payrolls using sabermetrics to defeat bigger, richer teams. However, not everybody buys into eschewing...

Passion as they say is like a driving force, it pushes you to bring out the best in you and one man who’s passionate about the things he does is Joseph Girardi. A former American professional baseball catcher during his playing days, a manager and...

William Louis Veeck also known as “Sport Shirt”, was an American Major League Baseball franchise owner and promoter. Veeck was at various times the owner of the Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Browns and Chicago White Sox. As the owner and team president of the Indians...

Biomechanics examines forces acting on the body, and the effects of these forces CITATION Aus16 l 3081. The materials that make up the perfect baseball bat have been developed quite rapidly over the years dating way back to the very first MLB game early in...

For the past three centuries, researchers have been looking for the origins of baseball with little success. The mystery behind the creation of baseball is still unknown today, but historians have found clues tracing back centuries ago. Baseball is said to have stemmed from “a...