Blog #3: Christian H.- Baseball and Steroids

For this blog I have decided to take a different stance and argue for both side of: Should baseball players be allowed to use Steroids?

Steroids in the english dictionary is defined as any of various compounds containing a 17-carbon 4-ring system and including the sterols and numerous hormones and glycosides. In other words it is a synthetic derivatives of the male hormone testosterone that are taken to build muscle, enhance performance, and improve appearance.

Pros of being a pro athlete and using steroids:

• Everyone has the right to do what they want to do to their own body, even if knowing the health risks. If athletes want to gain performance by using steriods, along with the incresed risk of harm to the alternative of less risk and poor performance, what gives anyone the right to interfere with their choice? After all, if we allow Americans to smoke even knowing the health risk then why prevent steroids?
• There is no real arguement to support that the use of steroids enhance performance. It is all about competition, there are always coaches that are better than other coaches. We are not going to fire a coach just becuase one is better than another.
• In American major league sports, particularly football and baseball, drug use does not seem to have a negative impact on audience interest. They do not care what they look like, they only really care about how they play. 

The cons of being a pro athlete and using steroids:

• Steroids have a negative effect on long-term health. Users of these enhancers are hurting themselves in the long run without on the average improving their short-term rewards from athletic competition, as long as athletes use harmful enhancers. This is the main reason for trying to ban steroids.
• Athletes do not take these drugs to level the playing field, they do it to get an advantage. And if everyone else is doing what they're doing. The end game will be an activity that is increasingly violent, extreme, and meaningless. Practiced by a class of chemical and or genetic mutant gladiators.  The use of performance-enhancing drugs is not accidental; it is planned and terrible with the sole objective of getting an unfair advantage.
• The spirit of sport is the celebration of the human spirit, body and mind, and is characterized by the following values:

• Ethics, fair play and honesty
• Health.
• Excellence in performance.
• Character and education.
• Fun and joy.
• Teamwork.
• Dedication and commitment.
• Respect for rules and laws.
• Respect for self and other participants.
• Courage.
• Community and solidarity.

The main reason I wanted to talk about steroids is because it is a rising factor in not only pro sports but in high school and college sports.

The sources I used was:

1. MLB.com
2. ezinearticles.com
3. dwb.unl.edu
4. dictionary.reference.com

Blog #3 Darling- Music&Emotions

Music does have a big effect on what people emotions. Through out my research a lot of different aspect of what emotions could be and how they can be express. Moreover music has a been effect on the brain which leads to have impact and activate the emotion part of the brain. Through out my research I learn some people don’t really interpret the song the same way the artist was trying to write it or what they mean.

Why music moves us:

 This article describes how music has an impact on people emotions no matter what. In this article it describes how a tribe from Cambodian was taken and undergrad students too, they both took the same text and they had the same results on what they felt according to the music they listening too. I though this really represent the why that music has an impact on the same part of the brain therefore they have the same feeling between both different cultures. This article shows how music has an effect on people’s emotions no matter whom they are.

 Music, Emotions, and Truth:

In this article it talks about how music has been seen as way of people expressing themselves and how music is seen as something beautiful and sad a way to describe what there feeling. Music is seen as something natural however music as been seen by scientist as something that has multiple theories. For example the Arousal Theory which is “that music has properties capable of arousing emotions or feelings in listeners. The arousal may take place because of some causal mechanism in which sounds and the dynamic properties of music affect the human body and mind, or the arousal may be a consequence of a sympathetic mechanism when the music reminds us of human expression of emotions” (Elina Packalén). This describes how this is a theory of how why music has an impact on people’s and what causes there emotions. Another theory is Cognitivist theory, which is “the emotions expressed in music as unfelt, necessarily publicly displayed, and objectless.¹⁸ In Davies’ view, emotions expressed in music are thus different from emotions felt by people. There is however a secondary use of emotion terms that are used in descriptions of human behavior and that is similar to their use in descriptions of [End Page 44] music” (Elina Packalén). This describes how music is can be interpret in different ways I have already read about this however I did not know it was a theory. The last theory is Symbol theory, which is “we express our emotions in utterance and behavior is at least to some extent dependent on our culture, personality, and temper. Human ways of expression are therefore not an entirely reliable indicator of the experienced emotions, and accordingly, the relation between the sonic contour of music and human expression is not a reliable way of identifying emotions expressed in music” (Elina Packalén). This shows how music is away of identification of people emotions and they way its express through music.

Psychology of music:

This article talk about a study that was done were the participants were taken individually and they listen to multiple music were they would them describe what they felt by listening to multiple music. In this study they discover that only six basic emotions the participants felt which were happiness, anger disgust, surprise, sadness, and fear. However these emotions were not connected to people childhood or personal traits.

Reading so many articles about emotions and the way music can influence what people feel. I have come to the conclusions that music does have an effect on what people feel. However the emotions that individuals can feel can be a little debatable because what you think u feel and like could be different to what the brain reacts too.  

Video: 

Links: 

Music, Emotions, and Truth

Perception of six basic emotions in music

Why Music Moves Us

Video

BLOG #3: Volleyball Lifestyle

A lot of people underestimate feminine sports, volleyball being one of them. They do not see the techniques that volleyball gives off. Volleyball is a game of strategy. It was combined with two sports, tennis and handball, and created the sport mintonette. This sport was discovered on February 9, 1895 by William G. Morgan, a YMCA P.E. director. He grabbed the concept of both handball and tennis to form mintonette. There are two teams on a court that is divided by a net and has smaller boundaries than a basketball court. There are only a certain amount of players allowed on the court. Players had no limit in attempting to hit the ball to the opponent's side of the court. During the game, there is a total of 9 innings and each team was allowed 3 serve attempts during each of these innings. If they mess up during the 1st serve, they were able to get a 2nd serve. Also, if they hit the net, it was considered a foul -unless, it was a serve, they were allowed to get a 2nd serve. During the first exhibition match in 1896, Alfred Halstead managed to attend the first game of mintonette. Halstead noticed the attributes of the sport and from then on, the sport of "volley ball," later formed into volleyball, was made. The rules slowly started to changed over time. The first country to adopt the sport was Canada and eventually it started to spread throughout the world. By 1916, the Philippines had introduced the skill and power of the set and spike. 4 years later a "three hits" rule and a rule against hitting from the back row was made. By 1917, the game was changed from 21 to 15 points. And in 1919, there was about 16,000 volleyballs that were distributed by the American Expeditionary Forces to their troops and allies. This later helped volleyball evolve in different countries that have never heard of volleyball. Volleyball is a very basic game, but full of movement. It ended up spreading to bigger events, even to the Olympics. It was played first the the 1924 Summer Olympics in a demonstration event. It later developed and has been in the Olympics ever since. It, however, was not just an indoor sport, it became and outdoor sport known as beach volleyball. This kind of volleyball only 2 players and ended up being part of the Olympics in 1996.

With indoor volleyball, everyone has a specific part that they have on the team. You have 6 players on court, 2 referees (one on top and one on the floor), and 2 linesmen. The linesmen make notify you whether the ball is in or out of bounds and if the server makes a mistake during their serve. The referees are there to make sure that there are fair plays and the middle line has not been passed under the net by either team. Players are allowed to pass the lines out of bounds to get fetch for the ball while still in play. If the ball passes the line out of bounds, it is considered out. If it touches the line, it is still considered in. When dealing with the court, it is slightly smaller than a basketball court. The court is 59 feet long and 29.5 feet wide. The net is 7 feet and 11 5/8 inches tall and 40 inches wide. The front row consists of blockers, 2 outside hitters, and 1 setter. The left front is a outside hitter/blocker, the middle front is a setter/blocker, and the right front is the opposite hitter/blocker. The back row consists of back covers/liberos. Liberos cover the entire back row to make sure that hits/balls that stay within lines get fetched for. The main libero is middle back, they cover the entire base line. The game is then started with a coin toss and whoever wins, get to choose whether they get to serve or receive.

ACADEMIC SOURCE:
-Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th Edition. Feb2013, p1-1. 1p.
-Statistical analyses of volleyball team performance. Res Q Exerc Sport. 1992 Mar;63(1):11-8.
-Japan Forum. Dec2012, Vol. 24 Issue 4, p491-500. 10p.

MY SOURCE CHOICE:

- Oden, Beverly. Volleyball Experience - Outside Hitter. What Is Expected of a Outside Hitter, n.p. 26 March 2013.

- Oden, Beverly. Volleyball Experience - Libero. All About the Volleyball Libero, n.p. 26 March 2013.

-Wikipedia Search: Volleyball

Blog #3-Chris A-Spirituality and Religion

Spirituality is not religion. I will start out with religion. Religion has to deal with what goes on or exists further than the visible world. Where your operating through your intuition and faith, in contrast to reason. Religion deals with the existence of a single human being, a group of beings, or a "transcendental" spiritual higher power that has created the world and that governs it. Religion is a very specific set of beliefs AND practices that are understood and agreed on by a sect. Lastly, it is the idea of ritual, prayer, spiritual exercises, and or some principles that will make the religious person believe in
such a higher eternal principle (i.e. higher power)

Spirituality is a term that carries less argument than religion does. With spirituality comes an internal process of trying to find your personal authenticity, personality, and a wholeness as a person as a part of your self identity development. It is the ongoing process of continuously "transcending" one's current focus of centricity. (i.e. egocentricity) Spirituality is improving and developing your own self by connecting with your self through meditation, practices, and through relationships with community. Spirituality focuses on trying to direct your life in a direction that has meaning and purpose so that you don't feel like, "why do i belong here?" Lastly, spirituality makes you a lot more open minded with exploring an intangible higher power or "essence of center of value" that exists way beyond what we can all witness as humans.

1. http://www.jstor.org/stable/info/20568813?&Search=yes&searchText=meditation&list=hide&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dmeditation%2B%26acc%3Doff%26wc%3Don%26fc%3Doff&prevSearch=&item=4&ttl=73017&returnArticleService=showArticleInfo (JSTOR)
2. http://www.lavoisier.fr/livre/notice.asp?ouvrage=1785777 (Google Scholar)
3. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15979795 (NCBI)

1. https://characterclearinghouse.fsu.edu/index.php/articles/perspectives/74-differentiating-spirituality-from-religion (Google)

Skateboarding#3

Skateboarding is one of the most recent well known sports that have been made. It started out as a hobby that surfers took from the waves to concrete. It was founded in the 50s and has grown to become one of the United States favorite sports. What was once a hobby became a serious, yet smooth riding sport. From street competions to X-games, people are watching and loving skateboarding more and more. Statistics show that there are about 20 million skateboarders in todays age and date. Its crazy to think that just about 50 years ago we were riding planks of wood barely able to do an ollie and now people are flying off mega ramps doing 1080's. Skateboarding has come far in the last few years and intends to go farther. Theres a big question that has been up in the air for the last 10 years or so and that is if skateboarding will ever be able to join in on the Olympics. Theres a huge controversy with many people that skateboarding is still not considered a "real" sport. I find this quiet riduclous and many other skaters do too. Many skaters are trying their best to be able to open up the Olympics to having skateboarding join the crew of sports. Unfortunatelty last we've heard from the Olympics is that International Cycling Union president Pat McQuaid gave information to ESPN that they abandoned the idea of letting skateboarding become on of their sports. But one thing that has come up in the past to years is word from Tony Hawk saying in a newspaper in the United Arab Emirates, "I think the Olympics needs skateboarding much more than skateboarding needs the Olympics". Ironic enough when I met Tony Hawk we talked about this issue and came to an understanding that it will most likely happen within the next several years. This happening still hasn't occured but I'm sure many people other than me are keeping their fingers crossed. And its very true that the Olympics needs skateboarding more than skaters need it. Many people are starting to find the Olympics to be dying out because its the same thing every year. The problem is that one of the 28 sports has to drop in order to let skateboarding in to the picture. There is even a few skaters that oppose having skateboarding in the Olympics. Lance Mountain being one of them believes that skating is like an art. Having it in the Olympics would be like having Rush, Led Zeppelin, the Beatles and the Sex Pistols all play a set, then judging them. I myself feel as though skateboarding should be apart of their gig. I don't even watch the Olympics but if skating was jammed up in there I would definitely put some time out of my day to watch it and I think a lot of others would agree with that notion. If the nation is still growing to see more than 20 million skaters when the sport has only been around for 63 years, I think it needs a little bit more attention than the X-games. There are so many combinations and tricks that can be made and would wow the audience. It's about time to wake up the Olympics and add some spice to their mix.

http://xgames.espn.go.com/skateboarding/article/8253956/skateboarding-unlikely-become-olympic-sport
http://www.tmz.com/2013/02/18/tony-hawk-skateboarding-olympics/
http://skateboard.about.com/cs/boardscience/a/brief_history.htm
http://www.skateboardingskateboards.com/skateboarding-history/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skateboarding
http://skateboard.about.com/od/proskaterbios/p/ProTonyHawk.htm

Skateboarding#2

Skateboarding was founded in the 1950s by many surfers that decided it was about time to start surfing concrete rather than just waves. The original skateboards, even before penny boards were actually square planks. They weren't anything special but it was definitely a kick start to a revolution of skateboarding. During the early 60s was when everything started to fall into place. People from all over the world started to hop on a skateboard. The tricks were more of cruising and skating down big hills rather than a kickflip or heelflip. They called this "freestyling". It was hard for a lot of people to skate because of the way it was shaped. Many people actually were making their own home made skateboards. Around 1975 skateboarding became something much more than a hobby, it became a sport. Many teams started forming that are still around today. In 1978 a man by the name of Alan Gelfand created the most original trick of them all, the ollie. As you can see from the picture above, the skater is lifted off the ground with both of his feet staying on the board. That is an ollie. Its almost like a simple jump in the air, with the board of course. As time went on skaters became a little bit more techniqual. Rodney Mullen came up with the tricks kickflip and even impossible. This changed the way of "freestyling" for good. Throughout the 80s people started to create skateparks. This opened a totally new way of skating, bringing everyone together to share some good times. At the start of the 2000s a huge boom in skateboarding accured. Almost everyone and their mother started to hop on a board and find skateboarding to be their sport of choice. I remember when I was in 8th grade almost every single person I passed in middle school was wearing skinny tight jeans which actually started becoming a thing from skateboarding teams and clothes. Looking at statistics in 2002 there were 18.5 million known skateboarders in the world. The cool part was that 85% of them were under the age of 18, starting a whole new generation of land cruisers. So now that skateboarding has become so popular the question is if they will make it part of the Olympics. Lets keep our fingers crossed.

http://www.skateboardingskateboards.com/skateboarding-history/
http://www.skateboardingskateboards.com/skateboarding-history/
http://skateboard.about.com/cs/boardscience/a/brief_history.htm

2 new sources:http://www.skatelog.com/skateboarding/skateboarding-history.htm
http://skateboard.about.com/od/proskaterbios/p/ProTonyHawk.htm

Skateboarding

I have always had a strange fascination with skateboarding. Theres a lot of history behind it and its great because we live in a generation where so many people skate. I actually first started skating when I was in second grade. I remember getting my first board. It was a zero deck with thunder trucks, spitfire wheels, bones bearings and see through grip tape. Just coasting down the street from the shop made me fall deep in love with skating. Over the years I've grown to be quiet comfortable with a board. I know almost all the tricks in the book but there is still a lot of history that I don't know about. I've always wanted to know who first created a skateboard or who decided to make it into a nation wide sport or even who was the first professional skateboarder. I even want to know what the difference is between skateboard decks. Theres so much valuable information about the sport that many people don't know so I think it will be great to create a blog and do some research on this topic. The most I've read about skating is through a Transworld Skateboarding magazine. I actually have had a pretty cool experience meeting Tony Hawk when I was in seventh grade. I skated with his son and him at the Universal Studios hotel. I got his autograph and the whole shebang. That was definitely an event that made me amped to learn more about skating. I've found a few sources that I think will help for my research. One of them can be pulled up at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skateboarding and another is http://www.skateboardingskateboards.com/skateboarding-history/. Theres a bunch of history on skateboarding on both pages so I'm pretty excited to check them out a little more and find some information. I'll be giving you some information from their pages in my next blog so stay tuned.

BLOG #2: What really is volleyball and how did it start?

On my search on Wikipedia, volleyball is a game of strategy. It was combined with two sports, tennis and handball, and created the sport mintonette. This sport was discovered on February 9, 1895 by William G. Morgan, a YMCA P.E. director. He grabbed the concept of both handball and tennis to form mintonette. There are two teams on a court that is divided by a net and has smaller boundaries than a basketball court. There are only a certain amount of players allowed on the court. Players had no limit in attempting to hit the ball to the opponent's side of the court. During the game, there is a total of 9 innings and each team was allowed 3 serve attempts during each of these innings. If they mess up during the 1st serve, they were able to get a 2nd serve. Also, if they hit the net, it was considered a foul -unless, it was a serve, they were allowed to get a 2nd serve. During the first exhibition match in 1896, Alfred Halstead managed to attend the first game of mintonette. Halstead noticed the attributes of the sport and from then on, the sport of "volley ball," later formed into volleyball, was made.

Volleyball is a very basic game, but full of movement. Everyone has a specific part that they have on the team. You have 6 players on court, 2 referees (one on top and one on the floor), and 2 linesmen. The linesmen make notify you whether the ball is in or out of bounds and if the server makes a mistake during their serve. The referees are there to make sure that there are fair plays and the middle line has not been passed under the net by either team. Players are allowed to pass the lines out of bounds to get fetch for the ball while still in play. If the ball passes the line out of bounds, it is considered out. If it touches the line, it is still considered in. When dealing with the court, it is slightly smaller than a basketball court. The court is 59 feet long and 29.5 feet wide. The net is 7 feet and 11 5/8 inches tall and 40 inches wide. The front row consists of blockers, 2 outside hitters, and 1 setter. The left front is a outside hitter/blocker, the middle front is a setter/blocker, and the right front is the opposite hitter/blocker. The back row consists of back covers/liberos. Liberos cover the entire back row to make sure that hits/balls that stay within lines get fetched for. The main libero is middle back, they cover the entire base line. The game is then started with a coin toss and whoever wins, get to choose whether they get to serve or receive.

Sources:

- Oden, Beverly. Volleyball Experience - Outside Hitter. What Is Expected of a Outside Hitter, n.p. 26 March 2013.

- Oden, Beverly. Volleyball Experience - Libero. All About the Volleyball Libero, n.p. 26 March 2013.

- Wikipedia Search: Volleyball

Blog #2-Wayne: Dragon Boat Tragedy/ Qu Yuan

In this article that I came across in Lexis Nexis was talking about Dragon Boating. It talks about how a Dragon Boat race was stopped in Penang Pesta because of a tragic death of a young man named Jacob Issac Fletcher. The race was stopped because this young man at the age of 19 years old, has drowned in the dam when he was on his break around 12:50pm. He was one of the aligners for the Dragon Boat race in the Teluk Bahang Dam. After countless hours of this young man missing the firemen, navy, and marine police wouldn't stop their search until they found the young man. Jacob's father and 12 other family members have rushed to the scene after they've been informed about the incident. His father said that Jacob has been through a number of Dragon Boat races and was doing that and rowing ever since he was 16 years old. His whole family is praying and hoping that they will find Jacob soon and bring him home safely. This is one of the second tragic Dragon Boat races were we've had someone gone missing or hurt. The first accident was in Penang as well in January 2010 where five Chung Ling High School students and a teacher drowned to death after their boat flipped on them. This was such a sad and tragic experience for everyone and was the first death that has occurred in Dragon Boat racing.

The next thing I will talk about is a journal article I found on Pro Quest that talks about Dragon Boating. This article basically talks about how you will need a lot of strength to do Dragon Boating. Basically being on a Dragon Boat it's like being a well oiled machine where you have to be in sync with everyone to go faster and win the race! Being in sync with everyone on the boat will lead you across the finish line faster and will give you the chances to advance to the next races to compete for gold medals. We would have a lot of new paddlers but we would always encourage them to do better and for the veterans they would just rage for more and more racing because of the experience they have. Dragon Boat races are really fun to watch with family members and it is filled with joy and fun! Dragon Boat races start from high schoolers all the way from adults and the elderly. Legend says that there was a Chinese poet named Qu Yuan that drowned himself because of the corruption of the Chinese Government. Paddlers and Drumers would beat their drums and thrash their paddles in the water to keep evil spirits from preying on his body. This water sport has been very popular and has extended throughout the world.

On Wikipedia I found out about the history and origins of Dragon Boating. Dragon Boating was founded in Guangdong Province in Southern China. It was one of a family's traditional Long Boat's that was founded throughout Asia, Africa, and the Pacific Islands. Dragon Boating is a team water sport where there is 20 paddlers on the boat with a steers person and a drummer.

I thought that all of the links that I went to were very useful to me because I was able to find all the information needed.

Academic Sources:
http://0-www.lexisnexis.com.opac.sfsu.edu/hottopics/lnacademic/?

http://0-search.proquest.com.opac.sfsu.edu/newsstand/docview/351853996/13D05635DB765743475/2?accountid=13802

Blog #2-Darling: Music&Emotions

I have been really looing for information that would prove or say that music did not have an effect on people emotions. In the article Interpretations and Effect of Music on Consumers' Emotion really confirm the fact that music does have an effect on people in motion, that is because of many reasons it could be because music has been seen as a language of emotions. Furthermore music could be connected to people memories or events they have experience they feel that specific song or type of music reminds them of it. Something different about this article that I did not think about was the fact that the interpretations that people have on music the article mention that in the study done “Out of 102 total participants, 72.5% of those individuals had incorrect interpretations of the song”. People do not actually pay attention to what the song is really saying or what the artist was trying to say people interpreted the song wrong. I really though that was very interesting I did not really think that could happen.

Another article that I read was Music and emotion: The effects of lyrics and familiarity on emotional responses to music.   It talk about the fact that music does have an effect on people emotions and film makers and artist that want there product to sell use that to there advantages. This article also talk about the fact that music is used as away to express what people are feeling in the moment especially if people write music. Something very interesting this article was the fact that apparently sad music changes the way people feel and the way their body reacts. For example sad music causes changes in heart rate, blood pressure, skin conductance, and temperature. Happy music changes the way people respiration. While fearful music cause largest change in blood transit ,and amplitude. I really though this was very interesting because when I think about emotions I think about how people feel not really think about the way the body reacts to does emotions. This really help me think about that when I think about emotions I also got to think about the way the body language that people have not just what they feel. I personally really think that emotions is connected to body language it is another the emotions are expressed. Now I got to look at articles that talk more in detailed the effect music have on emotions including body language of does emotions.     

Sources:

article Interpretations and Effect of Music on Consumers' Emotion

Music and emotion: The effects of lyrics and familiarity on emotional responses to music.

Blog #2-Christian: Baseball and its history

As written in my previous blog, I hoped to really focus on just the Angels baseball team. But, after the research I tried to convey on the academic sources from the J Paul Leonard Library, I could not locate any books or other sort of writing that had to do with Angels MLB. So instead, for this blog I will focus on the history of baseball.

1. On LexisNexis Academic I found a newspaper article called, Jackie Robinson: The baseball legend's legacy after baseball; Jackie Robinson broke barriers in baseball, but his civil-rights campaign continued well after he retired. 
•  Jackie Robinson, for those of you who do not know, is known for breaking the color barrier in major-league baseball in 1947. And also led the Brooklyn Dodgers to win the National title. Mr. Robinson retired in 1957, shortly after he worked on the NAACP's "Fight for Freedom," which is a fundraising and advocacy campaign that worked on destroying segregation. The same year, Robinson was the national chairman of a fundraiser at the time and raised $20,000. Robinson went on to to partner with Martin Luther Kind Jr. and fight against discrimination in education. As we can see, Jackie Robinson was not just a baseball player, but had a real passion to change the world. Since Robinson, there have been numerous African-American baseball player in the Baseball Hall of Fame including: Bud Fowler, Moses Fleetwood Walker, Dan McClellan, Sam Jones, and of course Jackie Robinson.  
2. On Google Scholar I found an article called Baseball in America: A History
• Many Americans play the game as a child, rather it is baseball or softball. It is than known at "the national pastime." Baseball, unlike many other sports can be played by average height and weight people. Baseball originated before the American Civil War know as rounders, which was played in sandlots. In 1871, the first professional baseball league was born. Large cities in the eastern United States had their own professional baseball team by the 20th century. They were then divided into two league, the Nation and American. During the regular season, the teams play against their own league. The two top teams in each league play in the World Series. The winner of at least four games out of seven than wins the title for that year. In the 1950s, baseball began to spread its geographical range. Cities in the west either were creating their own teams or teams from the east were moved to the west. 
3. On MLB.com I found a timeline of the Angels history.

• In 1961 the Angels finished their first season with a 70-91 record. They played at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles and in 1961 moved to Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. Finally on April 9, 1966 the Anaheim Angels opened the Angels christened Anaheim Stadium. On July 15, 1973, Nolan Ryan became the fifth pitcher in MLB history to record two no-hitters in a single season. Ryan is still known as one of the greatest pitchers in MLB history. Reggie Jackson became the thirteenth player to reach the exclusive milestone of hitting five hundred home runs. The 1986 season was one of the best in franchise history. In 1998 the Angels opened Edison International Field, which is where until this day is their home. In 2002 the Angels made their first appearance in the World Series against the San Francisco Giants and won in the seventh game, 4-1. In 2009, a promising Nick Adenhart pitched six scoreless innings on April 8 against the A's. Later on that night, Adenhart and two friends were killed in a car accident hit by a drunk driver. In 2012 Mike Trout emerged as one of the best players in baseball. He was the first player in history to score at least 125 huns, steal 45 bases, hit 30 homers, and post .320-plus batting average, making him American League Rookie of the Year. 

Although I wish I could have only talked about the Angels, the history of baseball was important to include for those of you do not know anything about the wonderful sport. The MLB website was defiantly most helpful from my original blog. I was able to answer some of the question that I was curious about.

I hope next blog I will be able to use Google scholar and LA Times to get personal articles.