Sports Exploration Activity

Directions: Follow the steps below to create a display of the sport of your choice.

Part 1: Researching your sport

1. Choose a sport to research: (Football, Basketball, Baseball, Volleyball, Soccer, Golf, Tennis, etc.)
Baseball
2. Identify your favorite team or athlete for your sport. Search the Internet and find a picture of mascot or photo of the athlete. Save the image to your student folder. Make a new folder called “Sports Exploration” in your student folder to save all of your files for this project. (10 points)


3. Find the most recent rankings for one team or athlete. Include a list of the top 5 teams or athletes for your sport. 
American:
Baltimore
Detroit 
Oakland

National:
Atlanta
San Francisco
Milwaukee

Base your rankings from an official ranking for your sport (like Hollinger Power Rankings). Not your opinion. (20 points)

4. Provide a summary of one team or athlete’s season performance. The summary should include the following: 

1. Wins, losses (5 points)
19 wins 18 losses
2. Did the team make playoffs? If there are no playoffs, name the major tournaments that your team or athlete competed in? (10 points)
Yes
3. Who won the top prize or top tournament for your sport last year? (5 points)
Red Sox
5. List three important rules for your sport. (10 points)

• An inning ends when the fielding team has gotten 3 players out
• If the batter reaches home homebase it is a homerun
• If a ball is hit over the outfield wall then all players gain a home run 

6. List three examples of jargon for your sport and explain what they mean in words non-sport followers could understand. (10 points)
Ace- Teams best starting pitcher
Dish- Home plate
Yakker- Curve Ball

7. What is an example of sports cliché associated with your sport or athlete? What is another way you could say it without using a cliché? (10 points)
"It's a beautiful day for baseball"
It's a nice day outside 

8. Name an athlete who is a legend for setting records for your sport? Provide a brief biography about the athlete that 
Babe Ruth

• birth place
Baltimore, Maryland
• school attended 
St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys 
• teams played for 
Boston Red Sox, Providence Gray's, New York Yankees
• records set 
Most innings ever thrown by one pitcher in a single postseason game 
60 home runs