2002 World Series

Satch and Me is a time travelling journey focusing on one of the greatest athletes of all time, Satchel Paige. Stosh, a young baseball player, one day is questioning his coach about historical players. This leads to the question of who threw the fastest pitch ever. Without hesitation his coach declares Satchel Paige as the owner of that title. Stosh doesn’t recognize the name and wants to learn more about one of his coach’s favorite players. With the ability to time travel, the two embark on an adventure to the 1940’s. The plot to determine if “Satch” is indeed the fastest pitcher ever, is quickly sidetracked as they face the harsh reality of 1942. The two see discrimination and segregation first hand, while experiencing the everyday battle…

The Steroid Era in Major League Baseball lasted from the 1990’s to 2004. It was a time where players from all around the league took performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) to improve themselves. It came to an end in October, 2003. According to “Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Baseball” by California State University Professor Paul D. Staudohar, when the San Francisco Chronicle posted that the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (BALCO) had been giving out illegal performance enhancing drugs to athletes…

baseball has ever seen. He played 20 seasons with the New York Yankees and won 5 World Series rings. The way he carried himself, on and off the field is why he has been a role model for so many kids across the nation. Above all other major league teams, the New York Yankees are the team that everyone dreams to play for, and growing up loving and dreaming to play for them and actually making that dream come true is a huge accomplishment in life. Jeter started loving the Yankees at a young age…

who have won a title have been in a large market. “The year 2000 is significant because that was the year the New York Yankees won the third of three straight World Series titles. Not surprisingly, they were also baseball’s biggest spenders that year” (Rymer). A good reason why the Yankees can win a lot of titles is because they can afford great players. The Yankees have won 27 world series and on each of those teams there has been at least a hall of famer on the team. For example, when they won…

On October 21st, 2011, Theo Epstein took a job that many of his friends called career suicide. Epstein is the boy genius who guided the Boston Red Sox to 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…

In the 2004 American League Championship Series, the Boston Red Sox faced off against their most hated rivals, the New York Yankees. The Red Sox were already in the midst of an 86-year World Series drought known as “The Curse of the Bambino.” 2004 was the closest Boston had come to winning a World Series title since the infamous Bill Buckner error in 1986. Red Sox fans had believed all year long that this was THE year. However, after being down 3 games to none in the series, the Red Sox faced…

teams that spend the most money in the sport on their rosters tend to win the World Series every year.’’This quote shows how every team should have an equal chance of winning the world series. Also, all of the small teams have an disadvantage. Also, not a lot of teams with small payrolls will make it into the world series. For example ’’Since then, only two small-payroll teams have even made the Fall Classic: the 2008 Tampa Bay Rays and the 2014 Kansas City Royals. Both lost to teams with…

He also kept competition alive within the team because he was so good that it kept others doing their best. When Ruth was not on the field, he could be seen in ads in newspapers or heard in ads on the radio. He was able to spark the love of the game back into the heart of America after the 1919 World Series scandal, making him even more popular than some would think. His hitting and pitching records showed how impressive of a player he was. When comparing his records to those of today's players,…

longer passionate about playing baseball anymore. After that, he began working as a scout and became the general manager of the Oakland A’s in 1997. Oakland A’s has the league’s lowest payrolls. Therefore, they could not afford to buy high-paying athletes in order to create a winning team. Beane thought that it was an unfair game since they had to compete with other teams that has high payrolls, such as New York Yankees and Texas Rangers. The wealthier team definitely has higher chances of…

leagues at some point in the future. His first game with the Royals was in New Jersey in 1946. Although he was playing for the visiting team, he received a surprisingly positive welcome from the crowd. His incredible talent was recognized by many, but appreciated by far fewer. New Jersey was one of the very few places that welcomed the Royals in such a positive way, especially considering there was another African American player on the team aside from Jackie: John Wright. Although his first…