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One injury was when he was pitching in the minor leagues and he hurt his elbow. While pitching he heard a pop but he kept pitching. After the inning was over he couldn’t even think about throwing another pitch. He did had problems with his UCL, and it needed to be repaired. He did not need Tommy John, but he did need surgery. Also one time when he was in the major leagues, he tore his ACL while in practice, which also required surgery. Mariano had to work through struggles to finish his career but he did not let that get to

"I love George Brett. George is everything that's right about baseball." - Charlie Lau George Howard Brett was a Major League Baseball player for the Kansas City Royals for 21 years. During his career, he achieved so much and contributed a great deal to Kansas City baseball. George Brett is a big name in Kansas City because he’s a hometown hero, has dedicated his life and time to Kansas City and has believed in and stayed with the Kansas City Royals for the past forty-five years.

“I never had a job. I always played baseball.”(Official). That was said by the legendary Negro pitcher Leroy “Satchel” Paige. The person I chose for my project is Satchel Paige. I chose this figure because I wanted learn what impact he had on our world and because I've always been interested in legendary baseball players. My paper will present the early life of Satchel, his outstanding Negro baseball career, and how he changed the game of baseball.

Bob Gibson is a retired baseball pitcher, he broke his ankle on July 1967, he had 268 strikeouts, 13 shoutouts, 15 consecutive wins, and 92 innings. Bob Gibson was known as “The Year of the Pitcher” in 1968. Before he retired he got 3,117 strikeouts, he won 251 games and lost 174 games.

"Pitching is the art of instilling fear" (Sandy Koufax). These are the words Sanford ¨Sandy¨ Koufax believed in, and strived towards throughout his entire Hall of Fame baseball career. Through his impeccable talents on and off the field, Sandy was able to engraft the characteristics of trust, loyalty, and determination into all of the hearts of those who watched him. Sandy Koufax was the most influential baseball player of the 1960s, because he had a lot of experience with the game of baseball since he was young, he had a great impact on the people who watched him because of his actions, and he helped pave the way for the game of baseball to become even better.

Henry Louis Gehrig mainly known as Lou Gehrig is one of the best baseball players to ever step on the diamond. He played all 17 of his seasons for the New York Yankees, and wore the number 4. As a child Gehrig suffered very repeating occurrences of epileptic seizures. His childhood illness would eventually come back later in his life to play a huge factor of his early retirement.

The Greatest baseball player alive was born on February 6th, 1859 and his name happens to be George Herman Ruth, Jr. also known as Babe Ruth or The Bambino. He was born in Pigtown Baltimore. The left handed sensation has won 6 world series and is on the verge of winning another one. He is also a 6× AL RBI leader, (1919–1921, 1923, 1926, 1928). Babe Ruth also won AL MVP in 1923. . Babe Ruths best seasons has been with the New York Yankees. Babe Ruth first started playing baseball when he was a just a child but first played in St. Mary’s Industrial School for boys in Baltimore, Maryland. He later went on to play in the minor league for the Baltimore Orioles and later went on to play for the Boston Red sox. He now plays for the New York Yankees

While he may seem he couldn’t have been any better on the field, he was just as great off the field. Clemente knew that leadership and social responsibility in the Latino world was also a part of his career (Regalado 679). In fact, he stated, “Lots of kids will try to imitate me, and maybe I will have the chance to do some good for people,” in an interview with the New York Times (Regalado 679). Clemente’s presence on and off the field challenged the misconceptions about Latino players, especially those from Puerto Rico, by the typical American at the time. Driven by the need to succeed, he emerged as a symbol for not only Latino recognition but also Puerto Rican (Regalado 683).

Yadier Molina who was born on July 13th in the year of 1982 is a Puerto Rican baseball player that has found his way to the MLB and has really made a mark on the game. ("Yadier Molina." Famous Birthdays. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Mar. 2016.) Molina was born in Bayamon Puerto Rico and grew up with his father Benjamin Molina, his mother Gladys Matta Molina, and then his two brothers Bengie and Jose. Yadi’s father was a ameture catcher in Puerto Rico but also worked as a toolsman too. Baseball was in the family for a long time and that is all that him and his brothers knew growing up which would explain why they all three made a professional career out of it. Both his brothers Bengie and Jose ended up being major league catchers as well, but nothing like their brother Yadier. They all knew he had something special growing up and playing as a kid. Molina never really focused on the catching

     It was a warm, sultry night in September. The fans were crazed in anticipation as Mark McGwire stepped to the plate. With a gentle stretch, he paused, patiently poised, waiting for what would eventually be the greatest hit baseball had ever seen. The pitcher, Steve Trachsel, came set. He shot a determined look to the dirt. In a rivalry such as this (Cubs, Cardinals) he did not want to be the one to give up the great number 62. He cocked his arm back, to let loose what would be an eighty-eight mile an hour fastball that most men would not see fly by, but Big Mac was not most men. With one mighty swing, sixty-one was no more, ney sayers were silenced, and the game

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Thesis: The Fundamentals of baseball can result in a successful pitcher is proper mechanics, good arm motion to hit your target and lots of flexibility/mobility that can result in high velocity meaning speed.

The story of Jackie Robinson has become one of America's most iconic and inspiring stories. Since 1947, American history has portrayed Jackie Robinson as a hero, and he has been idolized as a role model to the African American baseball community. It is an unarguable fact that he was the first to tear down the color barriers within professional baseball. The topic of Robinson’s role in integration has long been a point of discussion amongst baseball historians. Researchers have accumulated thousands of accredited documents and interviews with friends and team mates such as short stop, Pee Wee Reese, and team owner, Branch Rickey. However, few journalists have asked why Robinson was selected and what was Branch

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I, Babe Ruth, had a major contribution to society, mainly the game of baseball. As I was becoming more recognized as more of a hitter than a pitcher while the “dead-ball era” was happening. I hit many home runs and broke records. My fans loved it; they paid attention to my full-swing hitting. With the style of hitting I had, it contributed to the revolution of baseball and now the “live-ball era.”