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The following is an extended version of my article for The News Lens International Edition, “What Baseball Says about Taiwanese Culture and Identity,” published on November 5, 2020. https://international.thenewslens.com/article/142896... more
In the modern game of baseball the game can no longer claim to be completely won on the field. Instead, the game is now won on computers in dingy clubhouse rooms by number crunchers that would probably do better in industries such as... more
This is a review of a collection of essays arising from a conference on the way American culture is depicted in and through baseball in film.
Winner of 2009 Outstanding Book Award, North American Society for the Sociology of Sport. In parks and cafes, homes and stadium stands, Cubans talk baseball. I contend that when they are analyzing and debating plays, games, teams, and... more
Discusses the rise of big data in Major League Baseball and how teams are using this data to help improve their teams.
In the spring semester of 2015, I was given the opportunity to develop a digital history project at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. Since my historical interest mainly involves baseball, and at that time I was researching the 1879... more
Remarks to the Curt Flood Symposium, Negro League Baseball Museum, Kansas City, MO, 2014
The present study seeks for the relationship between optimism of professional baseball directors and team performance by comparison of their winning rates and their explanatory style. From four sports newspapers published in Japan, 5454... more
This book provides with the most comprehensive collection of new urban stadia built or renovated in the last 30 years. It displays the success of the new urban pattern in designing and building stadia as part of an urban context. A... more
The purpose of this study was to determine the biomechanical and anthropometric factors contributing to elbow valgus torque during pitching. Video data of 14 youth pitchers throwing fastballs were used to calculate shoulder and elbow... more
I begin this review with a brief overview of the book itself, followed by a discussion of its pedagogical usefulness as a text in Philosophy of Sport and Philosophy of Religion courses. I then move on to discuss a few points in the book... more
Context: Jump landing is a common activity in collegiate activities, such as women's basketball, volleyball, and soccer, and is a common mechanism for anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury. It is important to better understand how... more
There are drills that do not require much equipment. What are these two suggested hitting drills to give your players more hitting power?
While most baseball fans agree that the use of performance-enhancing drugs should be banned from the sport, and many even think that players caught using them should be banned too, the philosophical question is, why should that be so?... more
The study was conducted to evaluate one aspect of the entropy theory of aging, which hypothesizes that aging is the result of increasing disorder within the body, and which predicts that increasing mass lowers life span. The first... more
The ultimate zone-rating extrapolation (UZR/150) rates fielding performance by runs saved or cost within a zone of responsibility in comparison with the league average (150 games) for a position. Spring-training anthropometric and... more