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Sentence of the Week

1."We're going to run the organization from the top down. We're controlling player personnel. Thats our job. There's this belief in baseball that a team starts with the manager, but it doesn't

This is my favorite because i believe that this is how a team should be ran, from the top down.

Books read
The Baseball
Moneyball

Pages this week
267
Semester total: 993

Finally finished book #3

This week, i decide to finish reading "The Baseball", and to begin reading "Moneyball", since the movie has came out finally. I like reading the books of movies before i go to see them in the theater. So once i finally finish, i might have to go see Moneyball in theater. Moneyball is a great book for baseball fans to read. Starting out, Billy Beane, a regarded as a top prospect in the 1980's. He was contemplating whether going to Stanford or if he wanted to sign a big league deal and make the big bucks, while also giving up his top of the line college education. After he signed his deal, he became nothing more than a minor leaguer.

The Baseball

Did you know that teams in the MLB hire a person just to rub mud onto a baseball?

This is true, because when a baseball is brand new, the leather doesn't have enough grip for pitchers to hold on to. So these people rub a mixture of mud and a liquid, nobody knows exactly what the liquid is because its a secret part of the recipe, so that the pitchers can have just enough grip on the ball. In the 60's and 70's, they used to just rub either dirt or mud on the ball, until they the batter's complained because they counld not see the ball therefore they had trouble hitting it. The MLB tried as many things to get grip as they could, but everything they tried either had too much grip, or was too dark for the batter to see. Then someone came up with the mixture of mud and the special liquid as the perfect thing to rub on the baseballs to get grip and not be to dark so that the players can see them.

The Baseball

This week, I started to read 102 Minutes, a book about 9/11. However, I realized that students were reading this in a class, so I had to stop reading that book. Instead I found a book called “The Baseball” by Zack Hample. This book as the title suggest is about a baseball, but not just any baseball. This goes into the way that a baseball is made from inside out. It also gives some tips on how to walk out of a ballpark with your own souvenir, a baseball, from the game. Zack Hample is what people like to call a Ball Hawk. Ball Hawks are people that go to games not to watch them, but in order to walk out of the ballpark with as many souvenirs as possible. This book also goes into detail about the history of a baseball. Did you know that if you caught a foul ball in the early years of baseball, you had to throw it back onto the field of play? In the early years, if you were caught keeping a foul ball or a home run, you could be arrested and fine up to a 100 dollars (that was a lot back then). However, fans these days keep the balls as souvenirs, unless the away team hits a foul ball or home run, in this case, fans throw the ball onto the field of play as a sign of disrespect.

Sentences of the month

1.."That which does not kill you can only make you stronger"- Coming Back Stronger
2."We may be down, Shane, but we're not out"- High Heat
3."Were gonna pound the ball! We're gonna hit'em in the mouth"-Coming Back Stronger
4.When you least expect it, the opportunity will present itself. You never know when it's going to come"

#1 is my favorite because it is entirely true. The quote is showcased at every point in life.

The book I read this week was "The Baseball" by Zack Hample

Pages of the week: 209
Semester: 726

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Pages this week: 168
Semester total: 517