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Selected Physical Fitness Characteristics of Professional Baseball Players
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SmartPitch: Applied Machine Learning for Professional Baseball Pitching Strategy
The stateful nature of baseball has made it a prime candidate for exploring the topics of planning and strategy optimization. Nearly every moment of the game - from the first pitch to the final out - can be described by a collection of well known state variables that even casual fans should be …
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A Chronicle of Professional Baseball in Columbus, Georgia: 1885-1987
<p>The history of professional baseball in Columbus, Georgia, is a long and varied one. Columbus has been in professional baseball longer than most cities in the United States and its history is filled with both success and failure. National events such as wars and depressions have affected …
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An inquiry into the factors affecting the demand for professional baseball
The factors influencing shifts in the demand for professional baseball are investigated. Initially, the logical framework behind attendance patterns is presented as a prelude to the theoretical model. Graphical analysis and classical optimization techniques are then used to transform the model …
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An urban field of dreams: professional baseball and the fruition of new - old Denver
… left in its wake exposed a growing rift between baseball's working class mythos and the upscale nature of contemporary ballpark projects. Despite its instant success as an economic anchor, Coors Field ultimately contributed to the homogenization (or "Disneyfication") of "Old Denver" - a trend …
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It Comes and It Goes: the History of Professional Baseball in Springfield, Missouri: 1887-1950
… of the twentieth century, Springfield hosted professional baseball. The foundation of this long tradition began with an ill-fated first attempt at a professional team in 1887 and gained stability with a more solid effort in 1902. From that year until 1950, professional baseball continued in …
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Difference in Transverse Plane Scapular Position of Professional Baseball Players Relative to Baseball Field Position
… identify the variation of the scaption angle of professional baseball players among field position played. Subjects consisted of 109 minor league professional baseball players reporting for the 2002 spring training season, who were under contract with the Anaheim Angels professional baseball …
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Crashsmith Dope: the Role of Media in the Development of Professional Baseball in New York From 1919-1929
… until the entire sport embraced a new era of baseball. This thesis details the role played by these two newspapers in the rise of the Live Ball Era, the New York Yankees, and Babe Ruth. The New York Times was a daily newspaper located in New York, the heart of the Live Ball movement, while The …
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From the ball fields to Broadway: Performative identities of professional baseball players on the nineteenth and twentieth century American stage
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Analysis of Statistical Impact of Steroids in Professional Major League Baseball Players
Rampant steroid usage tainted Major League Baseball (MLB) in the late 1980s, and decades later, steroid usage is still a serious issue. Steroids, along with other illegal substances, have heavily impacted various statistics in professional baseball (Petersen, Jung, & Eugene Stanley, 2008). Many …
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The relationship between travel and won/loss records and performance measures in Major League Baseball
… at home or on the road) and the performance of professional baseball teams (i.e. won/loss, runs scored, hits, errors committed, double plays executed, and runs allowed). Stepwise multiple regression analyses will be used to determine the amount of explained variance in each performance variable …
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From Dachau to the dugout: Black America's diamond-lined response to racism
… More specifically its origins are found within baseball, otherwise known as America's pastime. That the exclusion of black men from the professional baseball diamonds in the days of Jim Crow occurred should not be surprising to most. It was the method by which one Andrew 'Rube' Foster chose to …
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"Baseball as Community Identity: Cleveland, Ohio -- 1891-2012"
Matt Ferguson argues in "Baseball as Community Identity: Cleveland, Ohio --1891-2012," that through studying key flashpoints in Cleveland baseball history by focusing on the history of League Park, Cleveland Municipal Stadium, and Jacobs/Progressive Field, the positive memories of Cleveland Indians …
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Luck and skill in professional League of Legends (E-sports)
As professional gaming (e-sports) develops a greater global infrastructure, it will be critical to create league systems in which skill and luck balance to create competitive, exciting, and fair environments. This study uses the most developed e-sport leagues, found in the game League of Legends …
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Propaganda or persuasion: The Communist Party and its campaign to integrate baseball
… Communist Party's (CPUSA) campaign to integrate professional baseball. Representative articles published in the Daily and Sunday Worker sports sections from 1936 through 1947 were chosen for examination and analysis. Specifically, the use of "god," "devil," and "charismatic" terms are identified …
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Making Memories in 140 Characters or Less: Testing the Effectiveness of CSR Messages Disseminated by Major League Baseball Teams via Twitter on Recognition and Recall
… of CSR messages disseminated via Twitter by professional baseball teams. Using priming theory and Lang's (2000) Limited Capacity Model for Mediated Message Processing, this study tested the effects of priming and message sequencing on a persons' ability to recognize and recall these CSR …
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Amateur baseball players: what are the relative merits of attending college versus going directly to the minor leagues?
… and on-the-job training on the performance of professional baseball players was studied using a secondary dataset consisting of 112 players and five years of play at the Major League level, classified as hitters from the 1990 through 2000 seasons. The study revealed that higher education …
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Confidence and Accuracy in Concurrent and Predictive Judgments of Performance
… eight male participants used various measures of baseball performance to predict the overall performance of 50 to 100 professional baseball players. Feedback on judgments was not provided. The judgment task was designed to simulate the ability assessment and performance prediction activities …
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Using Pitch Tipping for Baseball Pitch Prediction
<p>Data Analytics and technology have changed baseball as we know it. From the increase in defensive shifts to teams using cameras in the outfield to steal signs, teams will try anything to win. One way to gain an edge in baseball is to figure out what pitches a pitcher will pitch. Pitch prediction …
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