1985 World Series

Elite pitchers have been the story in Major League Baseball(MLB) this past season. Many pitchers were outstanding and fantastic all year, but there were two pitchers that set themselves apart from the rest by becoming the true elite pitchers, Clayton Kershaw and Jake Arrieta. Clayton Kershaw was brought into the MLB in 2006 by the Los Angeles dodgers. Being an already effective pitcher, Kershaw got drafted in the first round, getting the seventh pick overall. He would make his MLB debut on May…

ball to the people who are batting, for the Chicago White Sox. It seemed like the Sox would win that day because, as previously mention, Eddie Cicotte had won 29 games prior to the playoffs. However, the Reds ended up winning the first game of the series with a score of 9 to 1. Everyone was shocked about how badly the White Sox had played that day. Cicotte’s level of play was not what it usually was. A statement was written by the New York Times: “Never before in the history of America’s biggest…

odriguez Alex Rodriguez grew up playing the game of baseball at age 4.He played his dad one on one his dad beat him but it inspired him to do better.Years passed for Alex Rodriguez, in high-school he was a gifted football player but on the baseball field he was a bigger star. In his Junior year, he hit .477 batting average and stole 42 bases in just 35 games.He led his High-School baseball team to the State Championship.Before the 1993 draft Alex was inspired to go to Miami…

Baseball is one of the best sports to play and watch. It has changed a lot since it has been invented. Now there is Major League Baseball also known as the mlb. There has been a lot of teams in the mlb and a lot have been around for a long time. The Globe Life Park in Arlington is the home to the mlb team The Texas Rangers. It wasn’t always Globe Life Park though, It’s original name was The Ballpark in Arlington from 1994 until April 2004. It changed its name to Ameriquest Field in Arlington…

His dedication and creation of “Walker’s Law” and the five-man rotation is what brought Walker to coaching a winning team for the World Series. However, no athlete is perfect and it is shown by facts and statistics that even Albert “Rube” Walker faltered some seasons and excelled in others. There is a great lesson to be learned that through trials and tribulations you will eventually…

In 1991, steroids were banned from Major League Baseball and in 2003 testing of the Major League Baseball players began. I think steroids should be let back into Major League Baseball because steroids can help with some medical injuries such as strained muscles or even broken bones, steroids would also give the sport more of an edge like Major League Baseball fans are looking for and because it is also wrong for people to think steroids are a bad thing when they have not experienced it.…

An inspiring major change happened to the world when jack Roosevelt Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball on April 15, 1947. Being an African American man he did not have as many rights or privileges as a Caucasian man would have had during that time. Mr. Jerry Robinson and Mrs. Mallie Robinson had five children, jack being the youngest. Jack r Robinson, is well known by the name of Jackie Robinson. His middle name is in honor of former president Theodore Roosevelt, who had…

Baseball is known as one of the most incredible and engaging sports in the nation. Several players all over the country, and even around the world, represent baseball by playing on high school teams, travel teams, and minor league teams as well, in order to reach the highest level of baseball, Major League Baseball, also known as the MLB. To this day, baseball is still one of the most dominant sports in America. However, baseballs reputation and character have slightly diminished because of…

Angeles Memorial Coliseum for four years. In 1962, the Los Angeles Dodgers moved to Chavez Ravine, also known Dodger Stadium, which is the third oldest Major League ballpark in North America. Between Brooklyn and Los Angeles, the franchise has won 6 World Series titles, accumulated 13 Most Valuable Players and 17…

their first World Series victory in 86 years. Epstein then chose to take on another colossal challenge by agreeing to become the President of Baseball Operations for the Chicago Cubs, who have been on a 108 -year quest to win the World Series. When Epstein was named the new President of Baseball Operations, Cubs fans would stop him on the streets of Chicago delving into conversations such as: “My dad is 87 years old and has been waiting all his life to see the Cubs win a World Series – what…