2008 Major League Baseball season

with a one-year deal having a value of USD 13 million to play for the upcoming new season of the Major League Baseball (MLB). Basing from the report of the The Score, Yankees general manager Brian Cashman was said to have agreed to give the 2007 National League batting champion the deal as the American baseball executive made his second major move of the winter. The native of Stillwater, Oklahoma spent the last eight seasons playing for the National League Central Division team St. Louis Cardinals, where he played almost exclusively in the left field position. Holliday will likely serve as the designated hitter or see time at the first base of the Yankee Global Enterprises-owned professional baseball club.…

Nearly everyone recognizes the impact that Jackie Robinson had on Major League Baseball and other professional sports, but not everyone realizes that Jackie Robinson simply stepping foot on a baseball field impacted the world of politics, the entertainment industry and the entire Civil Rights movement. The United States was slowly becoming more racially equal in the mid 1900s. “In 1948, President Harry Truman ordered the armed forces to desegregate, in 1954, the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board…

The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of the Bronx. The Yankees compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East division. The Yankees are one of two Major League clubs based in New York City; the other is the New York Mets. The club began play in the AL in the 1901 season as the Baltimore Orioles (not to be confused with the modern Baltimore Orioles.) Frank Farrell and Bill Devery purchased the…

Minor League, Minor Pay In an age where professional athletes make more than accomplished doctors and surgeons, it is surprising to find that minor league players make below minimum wage. Minor league baseball players should be paid more than what they are being paid today because it takes away from their time with family and provides with no opportunity alternative source of income. Minor league baseball players deserve to be paid more because they do not have time to have other jobs.…

1994 No World Series is held due to a Player’s Strike. 1994 strike most embarrassing moment in MLB history. ... It was the 1994 Major League Baseball strike. Twenty years ago Tuesday, baseball came to a screeching halt and didn't return for 232 days. The strike canceled the rest of the 1994 season, and for the first time since 1904, even the World Series 1997 To honor Jackie Robinson, his number “42” is retired from all major and minor league teams. April 15, 1997: The magnificent night at New…

Political Cartoon Most Americans work hard for what they have, yet, it is baseball, America’s pastime, where the players cheat their way to the top of the game. The evolution of steroids in baseball has evolved rapidly in the past two decades. The lack of routine drug tests in baseball, combined with the less than harsh suspensions has created a league unlike that of the previous century. This juiced up league has created new records as players become stronger and don’t fatigue as quickly.…

was not always seamless. There is an obvious relationship between advances in technology and its effect on sporting events. Instant replay in sports has probably has sparked as much controversy as it fixed since being introduced more than 50 years ago, but it's hard to imagine watching games today without it. One of the early pioneers named George Retzlaff, is credited with using a hot processor to produce a replay of a goal during the 1955-56 season (Allen, 2010). Retzlaff annoyed sponsors…

Bryce Harper was officially named the NL MVP on Friday by uniamous vote. The superstar is the youngest baseball player to ever win the NL MVP in this fashion. His outstanding season is marked by a .330/.460/.649 slash line at the plate. Despite the disapointing end to a promising season for the Nationals, voters remained loyal to Harper’s fabulous season. Harper garnered all first place votes on his way to earn 420 total points. The MVP runner-up was Paul Goldschmidt who received 186 less…

Over the years, statistical analysis has changed the face of almost every major sporting event during the twenty first century. This is especially true for America’s pastime, professional baseball. Since the beginning, scouts and other club executives bought and sold players based on a variety of attributes such as looks, physique, personality, and whether or not he is a multi tool ball player or not. Sabermetrics shattered this way of managing players and changed the behind the scene action…

that education is the key to success but in his case, he did very well for a high school drop out. He is very talented, produces, acts, and raps. He is a Grammy winner that launched his own clothing store in 2008. He also owns a nightclub in Atlanta that is very popular. The movie “Pelotero” shows young Dominican boys playing baseball so they can make it to the league. The families lived in low poverty homes and the kids didn’t go to school. So their only way out was to have their sons…