2009 American League Championship Series

their husbands went off to war to fight for their country baseball was dwindling. Since there wasn’t any entertainment in baseball there was a candy manufacturer by the name of Walter Harvey who started an all women's baseball league. This league was called the All-American Girls Professional…

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…

More than 73 million baseball fans attended Major League Baseball games in 2015. Large cities in the United States of America that host baseball teams offer national media and fan bases that generate multi-billion dollar revenues. The average cost of attending a MLB game, for a family of four, is over $200. MLB fans have many choices in concession food and drinks. Detroit Tigers owner Mike Illitch of Little Caesers Pizza owns his own concessions company so don 't expect a…

Tiger Woods is a professional golfer who got himself established early on in his career. At a young age, he has carved a name in the history of golf, being the youngest and the only African-American to have won the US Masters. His career continued to flourish up until he encountered a series of personal issues in 2009. Tiger Woods was born Eldrick Tont Woods on December 30, 1975, in Cypress, California. As a child, he was already called “Tiger” by his father. Even before he was eight years old,…

Synopsis In 2009, Alex Morgan became the most youngest member of the U.S. women's national soccer team, and appeared in the 2011 FIFA World Cup. She was the first overall pick in the 2011 Women's Professional Soccer championship, and got success in the U.S. Olympic women's soccer team in 2012. At the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, held in London, Morgan…

a successful season it is a completely different story. However, the baseball team likes to represent themselves differently. For example, as a fan walks by the outside of the stadium there are pictures of players that have success in the Major Leagues which represents a theme of “we create great ball players.” Through newspapers, media guides, yearbooks, pictures outside the stadium, and game programs one can infer that the representation is sub par compared to the likes of football and…

The Alabama Bats also know as the “Battling Bats” are an American Basketball team in located in Montgomery, Alabama. The bats compete in the NBA Eastern Conference. The team began playing in 1961, since then they have played all of their games in Garrett Coliseum or the “Bat Cave.” The Bats wear Red and Black. The teams mascot Bat Boy provides entertainment for fans, getting them excited to see their Bats play. The Bats were founded by Martin Luther King Jr in 1961 and originally named the…

the varsity team as a freshman. As a junior Bryant averaged 31.1 points, 10.4 rebounds, 5.2 assists, 3.8 blocks, and 2 steals. Lower Merion advanced to the state semifinals. Following his junior high school campaign, Bryant played in the Sonny Hill League and at national camps for promising senior players. "I enjoy playing against great competition," Bryant declared in YSB. "That's how you get better. I knew that playing for Lower Merion I would be facing the best players from…

October 14th, 2016 was an exciting day for baseball fans in Toronto, Ontario. The Toronto Blue Jays prepared to face off against Cleveland in the American League Championship Series. Catch anything out of sorts about that last sentence (specifically relating to the teams)? Read it one more time. The full name of the team the Cleveland Indians was purposefully left out. The Toronto Blue Jays play-by-play announcer, Jerry Howarth, also uses selective vocabulary like this. Howarth’s protest efforts…

American professional basketball player Derrick Rose was the most electrifying player in the league. In 2008, Rose was the number one draft pick for his hometown Chicago and played for the bulls. Also he won many awards and won the rookie of the year in his first season playing professionally. Within his third season in 2010, he led the bulls with sixty-two wins and becoming the youngest MVP in the NBA history, he is currently the youngest who won the award at the age twenty-two. After making it…