Thesis (M.S.)--Eastern Illinois University, 1962. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 172-174).

This study concerns the threatened imposition of the antitrust laws on baseball and the response of the sport, both in court action and in pressures upon Congress.

The purpose of the study was to compare fast ball and curve ball pitching performances in terms of selected biomechanical components of upper limb motion in college baseball pitchers.

Thesis advisor: Christopher Maxwell / This paper investigates the existence of omission bias in Major League Baseball’s home plate umpires. Omission bias describes the human tendency to prefer harm caused by inaction, or acts of omission, over equal harm caused by action, or acts of commission. For umpires, I define an act of commission as a call made by the umpire that ends the at-bat and an act of omission as a call that does not end the bat. By analyzing over 1.5 million pitches thrown between the years 2018 and 2022, I find that MLB umpires display omission bias by systematically increasing the size of the enforced strike zone on three-ball counts and shrinking the size of the enforced strike zone on two-strike counts. Further, I find that omission bias exists separately from and is not impacted by other biases present in MLB umpiring, such as the biases favoring home batters and star batters. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2023. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Departmental Honors. / Discipline: Economics.

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This research examines connections between race, ethnicity, and professional baseball. I use a multi-method approach looking at secondary source data on player positions and contemporary stacking, media analysis, fan narratives and sport blogs in the two contexts of Philadelphia and Los Angeles. I find that minorities are well represented in leadership positions and portrayed positively by the media, but that some racial inequality still exists. Whites and light-skinned Latinos are more likely to hold leadership roles than blacks and dark-skinned Latinos. In addition, media narratives reinforce the mind/body dualism by emphasizing the character make up of white players while highlighting the physicality of darker skinned players. Despite this evidence, fans from all ethnic and racial groups spoke highly of sport as a space that represented racial progress and a place where they felt comfortable are interacting with others who were different from themselves. These narratives were closely connected to fans' desires to maintain positive emotions within the leisure context of sport. Ultimately, I argue that baseball can serve as a site of racial progress and change but that it does so partially within a narrow cultural context. Baseball thus alters symbolic meanings of race but simultaneously misses important opportunities to make deeper social change at the material level. / Sociology

Title: Analysis of baseball pitch Objectives: describe the aktivity of muscles during the baseball pitch, regular throw, front throw and throw without using left arm in baseball by surface electromyograpgy, compare the baseball pitch and other throw during a movement Methods: surface electromyography, videorecord Results: on the basis of analysis, i can assert, the aktivity of muscles during a baseball pitch is different in aktivity and also in intensity from other hindes of throw Keywords: baseball, electromyography, baseball pitch, overhead throw, regular throw, front throw, throw without left arm Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

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Thesis(M.I.D.)--Auburn University, 2005. / Abstract. Includes bibliographic references (p.89-91).