The overall issue is whether Perfect Diamond Baseball Academy (“PDBA”) can enforce a noncompete agreement, on the ground that it has a legitimate business interest (“LBI”) in its training regimen provided to newly hired employees. Pursuant to West’s Florida Statutes Annotated § 542.335 (West 1996), a court shall not enforce a restrictive covenant unless it is set forth in a “writing signed by the person against whom enforcement is sought.” Fla. Stat. Ann. § 542.335 (West 1996).…
Paul believes that getting to know his enemies on a more personal level would lead to greater sympathy due to a deeper connection. This is a big turning point for Paul because he concludes that the Russian prisoners are no different from him. He believes that the prisoners are only doing what is expected of them, fighting for their country, as is he. Another event where Paul shows his impartiality is when he kills a man who jumps into his shell hole. Paul instinctively feels t it is either kill or be killed.…
Why were black people segregated from baseball? Today many of the legends and greats we think of were African Americans, and it’s crazy to think they were excluded from the MLB just sixty years ago. They were segregated from anything you can think of at the time, and sports weren’t excluded. No matter if you were an Olympian athlete or a baseball all star chances are you’d end up with a dirty low pay job. So rather than give up the sport they loved and performed well at, they created the Negro Leagues.…
Paul has flashbacks of himself with his father, “He was pretending he was a boy again, camping with his father in the midnight summer along the Des Moines River . . . He pretended that when he opened his eyes his father would be there”(213). Paul desires safeness and…
On first reading of the first parts of the novel, It is tough to tell what the outcome will be for Paul, but as the story progresses, it becomes clearer and clearer that Paul’s destiny is death. Upon retrospection as well, it is easy to tell that from the start of the novel Paul was doomed for…
I'm not a coward nor a scaredy cat that fears. I just had a feeling that something would happen, just not to me at baseball practice for some reason. My gut usually told me the truth. So I had a really strong feeling about something would happen.…
Life in the United States as a minority can be extremely challenging and discouraging at times, but Jackie Robinson set a hopeful example to many people that the color barrier could be broken as the first African American to play for the Dodgers in a major league sport. Throughout my life I have been faced with odds that have not been in my favor, and with casual racism, but I have prevailed in a similar smaller scale. I attend a small high school of five hundred thirty seven students, and eighty percent of the student body is Caucasian. Sometimes, the race comments are unavoidable no matter how hard I try to shield myself from them. There is always one individual who thinks it is okay to ask me how I “crossed the border.”…
The article I chose to read was Baseball and American Cultural Values, which was written by Ronald Briley. This article talks about how the sport of baseball has related to the American culture for a very long time. Split up into three different sub-sections, Briley explains how teachers can use the sport of baseball as an interesting way to the teach about America. The first section talks about how baseball can be used to teach some important aspects of American history. The second second talks about baseball and its connection with racial issues.…
The 1930s and 1940s were know for the campaign against desegregation of the game of baseball. The black baseball players were ultimately deprived from playing in the big leagues with the white ballplayers during the time of segregation. Not only were colored players prohibited from playing on white teams, but their games were often cancelled simply because the white major league teams “refus[ed] to play against a colored ball club” (Lamb 67). Often times, there were many black players who were equally as good as the white players in the major league, but were only paid “ten,twenty, or thirty dollars a game, depending on the crowd and the take” (Lamb 58).…
“He ripped it! He ripped it! It’s all the way to the wall! This guy’s coming home! Jordan’s at second!…
He loathed his home, his neighborhood, his school, and his family. Throughout the story, Paul’s motives remain unclear. It is equally puzzling why he takes such drastic measures in everything he does. . He does not seem to have any positive role models or friends in his life. All of his teachers despise him, and his father is barely in the story enough to judge his relationship with Paul.…
What I was looking forward to doing my senior year, was leading my team as a senior to the best we could be. I was working harder than I ever had all winter long leading up to this. I had one goal that I did not see happen any of my four years there, which was getting to the state championship. There were a lot of things that had to go right for this to happen. The team had to be good, they had to work hard every day, they had to win districts, they had to win regional’s, and the most importantly the team had to get along great they have to be a family.…
However, in the middle of the book, the inevitability of death becomes apparent again and making the most of life becomes difficult. After getting diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer and becoming very weak, Paul's life got switched into another direction. He stated, “Because I would…
While running his hand over Prince’s ribs, Paul feels “a sudden shame, a sting fear that Ellen might be right in what she said” (147). This marks the beginning of his epiphany. Because of the comforting environment he is in, he begins to be aware that he and his family are suffering because of the condition of the farm. The dust circling around his home is placing risk not only on their health, but also their future. Therefore, to bring a brighter future for his son and wife, he begins contemplating on how to confront he was wrong and Ellen was right.…
As I walked into the stadium, the smell of hotdogs and popcorn filled the air. It was a familiar setting. A setting I had grown to know very well because my dad loved baseball. The red white and blue colors were everywhere as fans came from every direction into the stadium. My dad and I walked to the outfield where the opposing team was warming up for the game.…