Baseball players and fans call it Tommy John surgery‚ after the pitcher who was the first to have the surgery 29 years ago. By any designation‚ it is one of the major advancements in sports medicine in the last quarter century. Technically it is a ulnar collateral ligament replacements procedure. Pitching overhand is a particularly stressful motion; the strain it puts on a player’s joint is commonly injurious. Pitchers such as Kerry Wood‚ Matt Morris‚ John Smoltz‚ Mariano Rivera‚ Tom Gordon
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NFL scouts. Rather than playing professional football right away‚ Kenny Washington turned to coaching. He coached the UCLA freshman for a short time. Washington then played four seasons of semi-professional football for the Hollywood Bears and San Francisco Clippers. In 1946‚ the NFL finally lifted its race ban and Kenny Washington was signed by the Los Angeles Rams. According to biography.com‚ Kenny Washington averaged 6.1 yards per carry over his 3 reasons with the Rams. He ran for a 92-yard touchdown
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From Wrigley Field to Yankee Stadium A mighty and triumphant roar radiates from the throats of the thousands upon thousands of people packed into the stands like sardines. Tears of joy stream down the faces of grown men as the team they have loved since they could first walk has just won the World Series. The sport of baseball has grown to become the national pastime of the United States since Abner Doubleday first invented it in 1839. From 1839 to the present‚ many things have changed about the
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Angeles Dodgers have been nothing but great since the end of the first half of the season. Even with a depleted team lacking verified pitching and consistent offense‚ they were able to overtake the best team in the first half of season‚ the San Francisco Giants and continue to strive to become one of the best teams in the major leagues. A number of Dodger starters are finally coming off the DL including Clayton Kershaw‚ Andre Etheir‚ and Rich Hill but there are a number of sporadic players like Enrique
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to a World Series game‚ I thought? “CROWN tickets!” my dad said excitedly. “You‚ me‚ your mom‚ and your brother!” I literally almost fainted on the spot. It was so unexpected. Especially since our hometown team the Royals were playing the San Francisco Giants in the World Series. And the Royals haven’t won it since 1985‚ the longest streak of not winning the World Series ever! I could witness history! “What game are we going to?” I asked my dad. “Game 7‚ so it isn’t for certain we will get to
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Amber B. Professor Simpson Engl 1302-8451 2 November 2012 Penalties of Steroid Use in Professional Baseball Players What are the limits professional athletes will go to‚ to be the best? Professional baseball players all over the United States strive to be the best‚ but does that mean they should take performance-enhancing drugs‚ such as steroids‚ to achieve their goals? According to many people’s opinions‚ steroids are considered cheating and the use should not be allowed in a professional
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With the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants move to the west in 1958‚ the market and seal was broken wide open for the shift and expansion of teams to the West and Midwest. Teams with a suffering fan base or suffering stadium decided to pack up and move rather than rebuild. The shift west was mainly brought on by economic reasons‚ but another large reason was the failing of their current stadiums. For example‚ Ebbets Field in their last season had developed major plumbing and sewage issues resulting
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The completion in Major League Baseball has been greatly imbalanced since the strike shortened season of 1994. Competitive balance should exist when there are no clubs chronically weak because of Major League Baseball’s structural features. Proper competitive balance will not exist until every well-run club has a regularly recurring reasonable hope of reaching postseason play which is parity. One of the primary reasons for the competitive imbalance that does occur in Major League Baseball is difference
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The San Andreas Fault is a fault that goes about 800 miles through California. The fault is named after the San Andreas Lake which is a lake that formed in the middle of the Fault. A fault is a break in the earth’s surface where two tectonic plates meet. The San Andreas Fault forms the boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate. The San Andreas Fault is the most famous fault in the world. It is about ten miles deep. The San Andreas Fault caused the 1906 San Francisco
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10/7/13 Quantitative Literacy Research Paper Topic with Sources Richter scale and examples My topic for our research paper is going to be about the Richter scale; what it is and how it is used in the real world. Sources: Title: Richter scale. Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia‚ 6th Edition‚ Database: Literary Reference Center HTML Full Text Richter scale ListenSelect: Richter scale (rĭk′tər)‚ measure of the magnitude of seismic waves from an earthquake. Devised in 1935 by
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