Information on the great Teddy Ballgame

[RedSoxfanforlife305]

I'd like to thank Spitball for recommending the book "Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero". It's really made my research project a breeze. Also a great book to read, and that means something if it comes from me. I've read probably a little less than 10 books my whole life. Even though it's pretty obvious, for those who were able to watch Ted Williams play, it must have been a pleasure to watch. I'm putting the finishing touches on one of my paragraphs relating to his baseball career. I wanted to throw in some of his nicknames he earned, but I can't put it in my research paper without citing it. I can not find where the names came from, therefore I can not put it in my research paper. If anyone can help me out with this, I'd appreciate it.

[a700hitter]

I'd like to thank Spitball for recommending the book "Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero". It's really made my research project a breeze. Also a great book to read, and that means something if it comes from me. I've read probably a little less than 10 books my whole life. Even though it's pretty obvious, for those who were able to watch Ted Williams play, it must have been a pleasure to watch. I'm putting the finishing touches on one of my paragraphs relating to his baseball career. I wanted to throw in some of his nicknames he earned, but I can't put it in my research paper without citing it. I can not find where the names came from, therefore I can not put it in my research paper. If anyone can help me out with this, I'd appreciate it.

All of his nicknames are in the second paragraph.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Williams

 

http://books.google.com/books?id=UjF4uWnhRmMC&pg=PA213&lpg=PA213&dq=my+turn+at+bat+%22teddy+ballgame%22&source=bl&ots=3J2dfUL7D4&sig=VsW8kFEQpqI54Ij00Bgwf_9QCRo&hl=en&sa=X&ei=DZIgUZSSMIPf0gGMz4CgAg&sqi=2&ved=0CFYQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=my%20turn%20at%20bat%20%22teddy%20ballgame%22&f=false

[RedSoxfanforlife305]

The king coming clutch!!

 

Edit: And I'll never use wikipedia for a research paper ever, lol.

[Dojji]

I don't believe that this is true. I am with those who believe the art of cursive handwriting needs to be kept alive. There are still many jobs out there that require on-site hand-written communication and note taking. Also, many older folk do not particpate in the digital age communication.

 

That's not "alive." Doing something for its own sake, for the beauty, the art, or the tradition of it goes to prove my point that it's a dead practice.

 

The fact that the only reason to write in cusrive, is when you deliberately write cursive solely for the sake of writing cursive, means it's a dead practice. Like latin is a dead language. No one speaks Latin to each other in the street, yet some do practice it for various esoteric benefits, or because it's traditional to do so in certain fields. None of this makes Latin anything other than a dead language.

 

Also, cursive handwriting is good for strengthening your brain. According to Virginia Berninger, a researcher and professor of educational psychology at the University of Washington, "Pictures of brain activity have illustrated that sequential finger movements used in handwriting activated massive regions of the brain involved in thinking, language, and working memory. Handwriting differs from typing because it requires executing sequential finger strokes to form a letter, whereas keyboarding only involves touching a key."

 

Sorry, I don't buy this. I buy that cursive and typing have strengths and weaknesses, but the idea that handwriting is so superior for mental training smacks of a retrograde making the argument to back their own prejudices, getting lucky enough to find some evidence to back them up, and riding it to town for all they're worth.

 

Like the "wine is good for the heart" people who use it as an excuse to drink alcohol, but conveniently ignore the fact that another thing that's really good for the heart is unfermented grape juice, and for exactly the same reasons

[Palodios]

The king coming clutch!!

 

Edit: And I'll never use wikipedia for a research paper ever, lol.

 

Wikipedia is useful for facts. Since you don't need to cite common knowledge facts, you won't need to cite it. That being said, teachers/professors will kick your ass over anything else uncited.

[jung]

We had none of these tools when I went to school....anchiant....But if I were a teacher, I would want kids using wiki to go to the sites or the other works that wiki references regarding a specific topic and read the content within context, as it was written and reference those piece as opposed to referencing wiki.

 

Using wiki that way, I would think a student could actually learn something. If the student just directly copies or even recomposes work already done and sitting in a wiki page, I suspect there is not much learning going on.

 

So I would not want to see a wiki reference, not because it might represent a common knowledge fact. Common Knowledge Facts can be a dicy topic where students are concerned anyway.

[a700hitter]

The king coming clutch!!

 

Edit: And I'll never use wikipedia for a research paper ever, lol.

I am pretty sure that Williams mentioned all of those nicknames in "My Turn At Bat". If you do a word search for the other nicknames with the book title, you might be able to get page cites.

[a700hitter]

I don't believe that this is true. I am with those who believe the art of cursive handwriting needs to be kept alive. There are still many jobs out there that require on-site hand-written communication and note taking. Also, many older folk do not particpate in the digital age communication.

 

Also, cursive handwriting is good for strengthening your brain. According to Virginia Berninger, a researcher and professor of educational psychology at the University of Washington, "Pictures of brain activity have illustrated that sequential finger movements used in handwriting activated massive regions of the brain involved in thinking, language, and working memory. Handwriting differs from typing because it requires executing sequential finger strokes to form a letter, whereas keyboarding only involves touching a key."

I think that there is probably validity to this. IMO the computer age has added to society's intellectual laziness and together with texting it has caused a big decline in social skills.

[Spitball]

Sorry, I don't buy this. I buy that cursive and typing have strengths and weaknesses, but the idea that handwriting is so superior for mental training smacks of a retrograde making the argument to back their own prejudices, getting lucky enough to find some evidence to back them up, and riding it to town for all they're worth.

 

Hmmm....well at least she is a researcher with some documentation. You basically have an opinion.

 

But if you need more, you should look at the research conducted by Dr. Karin James from Indiana University who does research on how the brain changes in response to specific experiences. In 2012, she did research that used MRI scans to prove that writing by hand activates parts of the brain that develop language skills while typing does not.

 

Also, the book The Hand: How its Use Shapes the Brain, Language and Human Culture by neuroscientist Dr. Frank R. Wilson details research revealing how handwriting, more than typing, affects us in ways we never realized. There are aspects of mental development and, as a700hitter said, social development affected by the use of the hand to create and formulate the cursive word.

 

The Brain That Changes Itself by neuroscientist Norman Doidge details how the act of cursive writing creates different neuropathways in the brain each time the writer executes the motor movements to connect the letters of a new word. The same process is not there in the act of typing.

 

In my opinion, there is more than "some evidence" being ridden for all it's worth.

[Spitball]

I'd like to thank Spitball for recommending the book "Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero". It's really made my research project a breeze. Also a great book to read, and that means something if it comes from me. I've read probably a little less than 10 books my whole life. Even though it's pretty obvious, for those who were able to watch Ted Williams play, it must have been a pleasure to watch. I'm putting the finishing touches on one of my paragraphs relating to his baseball career. I wanted to throw in some of his nicknames he earned, but I can't put it in my research paper without citing it. I can not find where the names came from, therefore I can not put it in my research paper. If anyone can help me out with this, I'd appreciate it.

 

I am happy I was able to help some, RedSoxfanforlife. It is an interesting read.

[RedSoxfanforlife305]

Had Ted Williams not signed the contract for Sears, do you think he would have took the job to be a pinch hitter for the Yankees? The contract for Sears was worth 100,000 per year. Enough to keep him away from baseball. Can you imagine the disaster that would have been? All the years he played with the Red Sox just to end it all by playing with the devils?

[a700hitter]

Had Ted Williams not signed the contract for Sears, do you think he would have took the job to be a pinch hitter for the Yankees? The contract for Sears was worth 100,000 per year. Enough to keep him away from baseball. Can you imagine the disaster that would have been? All the years he played with the Red Sox just to end it all by playing with the devils?

It would have screwed up his legacy in Boston. No doubt about that.

[RedSoxfanforlife305]

Especially with the Babe Ruth situation. In your opinion, what were the chances he would have went to the Yankees? That's assuming he never got the job with Sears. He did love Boston, but his passion for baseball overall was much higher.

[Spitball]

Legend has it that in the off season of 1947, Tom Yawkey and Yankee GM Lee MacPhail were drinking heavily at the baseball meetings and agreed to trade Ted Williams for Joe DiMaggio and prospect Yogi Berra.

 

When MacPhail sobered up, he refused to add Berra and the deal fell through...according to legend.