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National League American League
1,176 wordsBaseball is an immensely popular American game, known as the "national pastime, " played between two teams of nine players each. The basic implements used in the game are a leather-covered ball, wooden bats for hitting the ball, and gloves for catching it. Baseball is played on a large scale in Latin America, Japan, and other places besides the United States, but it is in the United States that it thrives most both as a participant's and spectator's sport. It is played at its highest level in th...
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Back And Forth Playing Soccer
1,064 wordsI had just completed the eighth grade. It was time to move to Burbank, where I would attend Reavis High School. It was very hard moving to a new town in the summer of 1996. This event meant having to meet new people and losing my old pals. Even though I had moved about every two years of my entire life, that did not make this time any easier. High School, like most other schools, had an in crowd. At Reavis, it was mainly the football and soccer players. After I started school, soccer tryouts wer...
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Washington D C Nineteenth Century
1,188 wordsLacrosse was one of many varieties of indigenous stick ball games being played by American Indians at the time of European contact. Almost exclusively a male team sport, it is distinguished from the others, such as field hockey or shinny, by the use of a netted racquet with which to pick the ball off the ground, throw, catch and convey it into or past a goal to score a point. The cardinal rule in all varieties of lacrosse was that the ball, with few exceptions, must not be touched with the hands...
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Goal Post Ball Forward
403 wordsYour feet should be shoulder width apart (for better balance) with them Place the ball in one hand on your fingers - not on the tips, but not flat on the palm, (a finger space between the ball and palm). Your other hand is used to support the ball only. Rest it slightly on the ball during the Being a high shooting technique, your arm should be straight above your head and almost resting against your ear. Try not to arch your back. It is very important to take aim before shooting. Aiming at somet...
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Blue Jays Seven Months
1,434 wordsDon't ask why, just wave goodbye, Baseball Weekly Blame it on the juiced baseball. Blame it on the juiced players. Blame it on the shrinking strike zone. Blame it on the shrinking pitching talent pool. Blame it on the easy-to-hit new ballparks. Blame it on the easy-to-see baseball. Blame it on all the new bat companies. Blame it on all the underground steroid use. "Hell, blame it on global warming, " Toronto Blue Jays manager Jim Fregosi says. "We " re blaming all these damn homers on everything...
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Opponent Goal Line Player Is Offside Ball
604 words1. The team that wins the coin toss may choose to kick off or defend the goal of its choice. 2. All players must be on their own half of the field before the kickoff takes place. 3. Defensive players must be outside the center circle, at least ten yards away from the ball, for the kickoff. 1. Each team has up to eleven players; one is the goalkeeper. The other players are known as defenders, midfielders, and forwards, or strikers. 2. In major competitions, a team may not use more than three subs...
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Katherine Mansfield Her First Ball
1,073 wordsWriting From A Womans World Everything is so magical, exactly the way it is in fairyland. Leila, Katherine Mansfield's main character in the short story, Her First Ball, is absolutely breath-taken at every sight and sound at the ball. Everything around her is so strikingly new and enthralling. It is Leila's first ball, and her first exposition to society. Mansfield describes the young girls emotions and excitement in a way that incarcerates her readers in the quaint fantasy world of Leila, and w...
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The Chain Linked Fence
1,195 words... the day. Once again he struggled with his coat and hat and walked out of his house, making sure to lock it of course. Once he got to the bottom of his porch steps, he turned to the left. Walter pleaded with his legs to hurry up; he wanted to get to his destination before it was too late. He was headed to the Elementary School. Two blocks and twenty minuets later, Walter walked up to the chain-linked fence. He spent a good deal of time standing behind this fence, looking at the pride and joy ...
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Court Of Appeal Car Park
1,296 wordsA bilateral contract is one where both parties are to perform their promises or obligations at some future time but not necessarily at the same time. A unilateral contract is one where one of the parties performs his promises at the time of making the contract and the other party promises to perform in the future. For example, if Vincent promise to sell Joe a Car for $ 1000 and Joe promises to pay $ 1000 for the car, the contract is bilateral and executory on both sides. However if Joe promises ...
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Score Points Opposing Team
535 wordsFootball is a team sport mostly played in the US and Canada by high school, college, and professional players. It is a dangerous sport because there is a lot of physical contact. While millions of people watch the sport, not all of them understand how the game works because it is a difficult game to understand right away. It gets easier to understand the game after you have played it. The object of the game is to score points by carrying the ball across the goal line of your opponent, or by kick...
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Left Arm Left Side
507 wordsAs we all know, America is a nation of sports enthusiasts. Most Americans participate is some kind of sporting event, either as a spectator or as a competitor. In the pantheon of great American sports, there is one that stands out. It has been called the great American pastime. Yes, that great sport known as tennis. Tennis requires a mastery of many skills to be able to play competitively, but the primary skill needed to win in tennis is the serve. The serve is the primary offensive weapon used ...
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Amount Of People Playing Basketball
1,750 wordsAs an amateur anthropologist, I was to participate in my observation, which I did to the best of my ability. Choosing my topic was the most difficult for me. Coming to America there are so many options that I could choose to research. So what was I to do? Well, being in the state of Kentucky, Lexington at that, I decided to research a sporting event in which Americans call basketball. As soon as I stepped of the big metal bird, I saw a picture of a wild cat holding a round orange ball. I remembe...
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522 wordsTable tennis is played on thick wooden or composite wood, plastic and even metal varieties table. The surface of the table should have a mat finish and it is usually dark green or blue. The table is 274 cm in length, 152. 5 cm in width, and 76 cm in height. The table is divided by the net into two courts. The net is 15. 25 -cm height and extends 15. 25 cm beyond each side of the table. The racket consists of two parts: the rubbers and the blade. There are a lot of different kinds of rubbers and ...
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1,038 wordsEscaping the fog of pride and prejudice The words of the title of Jane Austen's novel, Pride and Prejudice, shroud the main characters, Elizabeth and Darcy in a fog. The plot of the novel focuses on how Elizabeth and Darcy escape the fog and find each other. Both characters must individually recognize their faults and purge them. At the beginning of the novel, it seems as if the two will never be able to escape the thick fog. The scene at the Netherfield ball makes the marriage of Elizabeth and ...
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Romeo And Juliet Friar Laurence
947 wordsRomeo and Juliet, said to be one of the most famous love stories of all times, is a play anchored on time and fate. Some actions are believed to occur by chance or by destiny. The timing of each action influences the outcome of the play. While some events are of less significance, some are crucial to the development of this tragedy. The Substantial events that inspire the conclusion of Romeo and Juliet are; the Capulet ball, the quarrel experienced by Tybalt and Romeo, and Friar John? s plague. ...
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19 Th Century Smoke Detector One
1,204 wordsThe Toilet Thomas Crapper SanitationYesthose tales youve heard are true. The toilet was first patented in England in 1775, invented by one Thomas Crapper, but the extraordinary automatic device called the flush toilet has been around for a long time. Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400 s designed one that worked, at least on paper, and Queen Elizabeth I reputably had one in her palace in Richmond in 1556, complete with flushing and overflow pipes, a bowl valve and a drain trap. In all versions, ancien...
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Major League Baseball World War Ii
3,594 wordsThe Color Barrier Due to the color of their skin and their past history, blacks were unfairly denied the privilege to play Major League Baseball; it has remained a period of shame for baseball. Not only did the white players not accept Blacks as equals, on or off the field, the public did not either. Because of the determination and strong perseverance, the blacks were able to overcome what many thought was not achievable. The events that took place during the early 1900 s changed the history of...
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Easy To Learn Fast Paced
689 wordsRacquetball is aRaquetball Racquetball Racquetball is a fast-paced sport played indoors by two or four players. It combines elements of other games such as squash and tennis. Players use racquets with wrist straps to hit a ball that is a slightly smaller and lighter version than a tennis ball. Racquetball enjoyed a rise in popularity throughout North America in the 1970 s, although interest and participation in the sport has since declined. HISTORY Joe Sobek developed racquetball in the United S...
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Match Against Elon Big South Conference Tournament Ball
752 wordsOn April 17, 2000 the Radford University tennis team played a very important match against Elon college in North Carolina. The winner of this match would play as seed number two in the Big South Conference tournament. Eventually, our place in the Big South Conference tournament depended on the result of my match against Elon s number four player. During the match I knew that he was better than me and I didn t expect to win. However, I tried my hardest, and learned that even though my opponent wa...
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Back And Forth Open The Door
372 wordsSarah The Dog Sarah, wanna play fetch? Grrrr, Woof! Get yer ball! Go get it! Woof woof woof! As her slender, chocolate brown tail wags back and forth as fast as she can move it, she runs laps around the room, searching desperately for her ball like it was the only thing to drink in a desert. She finally finds it underneath the couch where she last left it. She snags the ball and races toward the back door like a Lamborghini at top speed. I open the door and she is so excited she tries to run out...
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