Chieng-ming Wang’s Career

Chieng-ming Wang’s Career By Group1: Leah, Lily, Raye, Jordan, Calvin Teacher: Tiffany Yen Zhong Zheng Senior High School Taipei, Taiwan

Outline Introduction • Wang’s Childhood • Performance in Teenage Years Playing in the MLB • Common Tactics • Pitches Recent Situation • Recent injuries • Family life

Wang’s Childhood • Studied in Tainan Chong Xue(崇學) Elementary School • His parents didn't approve of his playing baseball because he was thin and weak • after elementary:168cm after junior high:180cm after senior high:190cm • He never gave up although he often felt like vomiting during the practice.

Performance in Teenage Years • entered Tainan Jiansing Junior High School • worked part-time in Tainan Municipal Baseball Stadium as a caddy after school • couldn’t pitch fast in high school • Dr. Ying-Chieh Kao developed Wang's skills • impressive performance attracted agents from other countries

Pitches Fastball: • most commonly used • surprises the batter with its fast speed • can reach a top speed of 157 kph • two seam fastball and four seam fastball • an Achilles’ heel

Pitches Slider: • suddenly slides away from their original path • third fastest pitch in baseball • can damage the pitchers arm if not thrown correctly

Pitches Sinker: • plummets sharply when close to the batter • normally turns out to be a ground ball • hard to control, relatively uncommon

Pitches Curveball: • adds more advantage to right-handed pitchers • snapping wrist and thumb downward when releasing the ball • can easily cause injuries to the pitchers arm

Common Tactics Type One: Strike out • right-handed pitchers better against right-handed batter • rely on catcher’s instruction • depend on catcher to look out for runners • signal the pitcher to perform a pickoff

Common Tactics Type Two: Shift • help of fielders • strong batter who might hit the ball toward one side of the court • moving every fielder to the side

Common Tactics Type Three: Ground Ball • when batter batted a curve ball • easy for the defending team to pick up • fast reaction of baseman

Common Tactics Type Four: Strong Batting • First three only defensive • batters function like fire support in combats • team may still win even if they lost some points to their rivals

Recent injuries • first injured in 2008 during the competition • with Houston • Diagnosed as Lisfranc • (fracture and dislocation of the joints ) • Spend almost half a year to recover • Injured again in 2009 when fighting against Toronto Blue Birds (right shoulder strain ) • Still on the road to recovery right now • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz2avrCjX08

Family Life • married Chia-Ling Wu in 2007 • first child, Justin Jesse Wang, was born on June 16th, 2009 • weighed 3545 grams • wishes his son to be a broker • doesn't want to give him too • more pressure • hopes to have a second child

References • "baseball."Encyclopedia Britannica. 2009. Encyclopedia Britannica 2006 Ultimate Reference Suite DVD 16 Dec. 2009 . • Totally Baseball Web. 23 Dec 2009. http://library.thinkquest.org/J002934/Pitches.html • “Baseball” Web. <http//:www.wikipedia.org/wiki/baseball> • Baseball pitching Tactics." Web. <http//:lonislandchiefsbaseball.org/base_running_tactics.html> • <http://english.cw.com.tw/article.do?action=show&id=10262>.

References • Lo, Yi-hsiu. "Thriving in the Biggest Show of All." Common Wealth. 10 Jul 2008. Common Wealth, Web. 23 Dec 2009. • http://video.cw.com.tw/pages/public/movie/player/tv_player.jspx?id=40288ae71ae2abb9011b01f3e6b5068b • "Chien-ming wang injured" The birth order home page. 15 June, 2008.<http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/baseball/yankees/2008/06/15/2008-06-15_chienming_wangs_season_in_jeopardy_as_fo.html> • "Lisfrance" The birth order home page. 22 November, 2009. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisfranc_fracture>

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Chieng-ming Wang’s Career