The baseball:chapter 13

the top ten lists and other things of interests

This chapter is basicly a list with details the first list is of the top 7 most known "Ballhawks". my two favortie "Ballhawks" are Moe Mullins and Rich Buhrke, mostly becuase the both go to wrigly feild to catch the balls but also becuase have a ball of cubs history. Mullins, born on October 11, 1950 in Lima, Ohio, and is a truck driver. He has snagged 5,441 baseballs from over 13 diffrent stadiums. Also Mullins caught Sammy Sosas 62nd home run ball, 1998, the year he broke the record for most home runs in a single season. My second favorite, Rich Buhrke, was bron on June 22, 1946 in Chicago Illinoise, and is a security guard. Buhrke has snagged 3,476 balls. Allthough Buhrke didnt catch as many balls as Mullins, Buhrke has the history. He caught Jay Johnstone's 100th Career home run, Bill Melton's 100th, Ron santo's 300th, and 5 game winning grand slams.

His next list is a list of the ten best stadiums to snagg a ball at:

1.) Camden Yards, home to the Baltimore Oriales

2.)Kauffman Stadium, home to the Kansas City Royals

3.)At&T Park, home to the San Fransisco Giants

4.) Rangers Ballpark, home to the Texas Rangers

5.) Progressive Field, home to the Cleveland Indians

6.) Turner Field, home to the Atlanta Braves

7.) Miller Park, home to the Milwaukee Brewers

8.)Petco Park, home to the San Diego Padres

9.) Chase Field, home to the Arizona Diamondbacks

10.) PNC Park, home to the Pittsburgh Pirates

6 Poems for monday:

My theme for my 10 poems is baseball, Americas past time.

1.) the seventh inning
2.) Baseball
3.) A poem about baseball
4.) Analysis of baseball
5.) How are you doing
6.) The baseball players

My video Poem will be:
A ballad of baseball burdens, by Franklin Pierce Adams

The Baseball: Zack Hample

This chapter talks about how Zack became a well known ball-hawk. zack has only asked for ball once and it was when he was younger, he had to ask in spanish to get it. Zack has snagged over 4,800 baseballs from 48 diffrent stadiums since 1990. Zack knows how to say "Throw me the ball in 5 differnt languages, American, Japanese, Chinese, swahili, and spanish. Zack has a one rule and one rule only "No ball-hawking from little kids, and minor league games dont count." Zacks two favorite stadiums are Wrigly field, Chicago,and Camden yards, Baltimore. He likes wrigley becuase it is a hitter friendly park (Short fence to right and left) and behind the left feild stands is wavelyn avenue, and too the right, Sheffield drive, Two roads to stand on, so in the end, you can go to wrigley and snagg a ball without even buying a ticket. Zacks second favorite, Camden Yards, is not a hitter friendly park but behind the plate is the shortest backstop which means foul balls that are hit backwards are very likely to end up on the street making it easy to snag a ball.

Zack has writen three books, "How To Snag A Major League Baseball", "The baseball",and "Watching Baseball Smarter". His newest one is "The Baseball" It came out in march of 2011 which is the book that I am reading now, but i have also read his other two books. I dont read his books for the tips on how to snag a baseball, but becuase baseball is my favorite sport and Zack Hample goes into detail about how the game is played and some of the things we dont see on the field.

The Baseball: The Ball Lour

At one time the balls were so valuable that the winning team got to keep the ball. It could not have been much of a prize since the goal was to use one ball for the entire game. Even foul balls were thrown back into play. That is not the case today. today, the typical lifespan of a major league baseball is fewer than six pitches. On average, each team needs at least 9,000 balls per season. Multiply that by 30 teams and that is 27,000 balls per season. Each ball must be rubbed with Lena Blackburne's mud before each game. each team only uses a certain amount of the mud on the teams baseballs. The change in the rules in recent years have helped the flow of the game before we had to wait for the fans to throw the ball back before they could continue to play nowadays teams have thousands of balls to use and don't need to worry about losing them. this also has helped major league batters because since there is no worry about losing balls fields were made smaller and it was easier to hit home runs even shortstops and the occasional pitcher can hit one out. the change in rules have changed the way the game will be played for the next century. players start hitting more home runs, games get more interesting, more fans means more money. The change of rules have made the teams far more money than they would of by saving a few baseballs from leaving the field.

This book interests me a lot, I like baseball and all this book talks about is baseball, Americas favor tie past time. This book is interesting to me for two reasons it talks about all the best players and its about the best sport in the world. I have read his other book, "how to catch a major league baseball", and it was very good but this book talks more about the evolution of the game and that gets me into his book because I get to learn from it while enjoying it.

The baseball: pages 1-100

This is not your typical book, there is no story line, it is just facts and freak accidents that happen in the world of baseball, Americas past time. The first chapter is titled the souvinear craze this has a list of "ballhawks" or people who go to games just to catch a foul ball or even, if they are lucky, a homerun. Charlee sheen is one of the most wellknown ballhawks even though he has never caught one he as attempted to. At a dogger game a few years ago charlee sheen baught all the seats in the outfield to attempt to catch a homerun ball from either team, after the game he did not end up with one but he was interveiwed and when asked why he did that he responded, "i didnt want to hurt anyone who got in my way." The second chapter in titled foul ball lour, it talks about the rule of the foul ball. Before reading this book i did not know that teams paid for the ball so they wanted the ball backl if it ever ended up in the stands. This rule was the creation of polo grounds a feild that is 483 to center feild an unreachable distance at the time.

KG'S BEAST!!!!

As u can read in the title KG's blog is "beast" or Dankin' which ever you prefer. He talks about sports and mostly Jimmer, a terrible player for BYU. He also uses high diction words and word we Learn in class for example, Dank. I am looking forward to more post by the mysterious KG, he does not give his real name, so, no one knows who he is.

Who is he??

The kitten

The poem "The Kitten" is a very depressing poem, it gives the sense of sadness. The kitten was a stillborn and never got a chance to live its life. The narrator takes the cat and buries it in the field behind his or her house. The diction the author uses portrays his or her love for the kitten even though it never lived. At the end of the poem the author says "What other amazement" almost like she knows there are more moments that will be upsetting like this one.