June 2006
10 posts
process flow
Beginning the process flow diagram:
narrative: first draft
NARRATIVE OUTLINE CHARACTERS: Me (first person), Dad, #8 on the Red team SETTING: The baseball park, Saturday afternoon, early summer. Bottom of the ninth inning, Red team is down 7 to 6 with a man on second and 2 outs. THESIS: If #8 strikes out or the hit is caught in the air his team loses the game, but if he hits the ball out of the infield, it is not caught, or he hits a homerun...
a written narrative
The first task in conquering the deconstruction of baseball is to write a narrative essay about the game to communicate key ideas and important terms to the intended audience, as well as develop a better understanding of the game itself: What is a Narrative? An account A story A factual description What elements does it contain? Precise: exact, accurate, well defined,...
Affinity Diagramming
After creating the initial affinity diagrams in class, I reworked the ideas and added my own: Then I grouped the ideas according to related meaning and gave each category a name: Finally I grouped each category according to how they relate to each other: (managers control players, players use tools to complete actions in the setting. The actions impact and define the...
June 21
It’s Wednesday and I just spent a few hours reading rules and statistics about baseball. I find the lingo very amusing, namely because people actually talk about baseball using those words. And, a Southpaw is not a pitch like someone said in class—it’s a left-handed pitcher. Ha. I see on the project brief that we’re going to be writing a narrative to explain the game,...
lingo
Common slang used by fans, fiends and enthusiasts to describe their game: ace — A team’s best starting pitcher. alley — The section of the outfield between the outfielders. Also “gap.” around the horn — A double play going from third base to second to first. backdoor slider — A pitch that appears to be out of the strike zone, but then breaks back...
terms
Important terms, abbreviations and definitions relating to statistics and technical aspects of the game: % Inherited Scored : A Relief Pitching statistic indicating the percentage of runners on base at the time a relief pitcher enters a game that he allows to score. 1st Batter OBP : The On-Base Percentage allowed by a relief pitcher to the first batter he faces in a game. Arbitration:...
what a major league game looks like:
official rules
Click Here to see the Official Rules at the Major League Baseball website. http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/index.jsp Broken down into sections, click on each link to view various rule groupings verbatim: Objectives of the Game Definition of Terms Game Preliminaries Starting & Ending Game Putting the Ball in Play The Batter The Runner The Pitcher The Umpire The Official Scorer
a definition:
base-ball (bsbôl) n. 1. a. A game played with a bat and ball by two opposing teams of nine players, each team playing alternately in the field and at bat, the players at bat having to run a course of four bases laid out in a diamond pattern in order to score. b. The ball that is used in this game. 2. A game of darts in which the players attempt to...
