American League Championship Series

age 57) -- the cultural significance of the Super Bowl needed time to emerge in American life. Accordingly, the weight of the Super Bowl wasn't larger than life at the beginning. The game had to become a cultural event. The empty seats for the first edition at the Los Angeles Coliseum offer a reminder that the game was once a novelty met with an uncertain reaction by the public. This game needed to be exposed to Americans before it could become our nation's great secular and commercial emblem…

"Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he 's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you 're ahead." Jackie Robinson What a day! On April 15, 1947, Major League Baseball 's color line was broken when Jackie Robinson made his debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Born Jack Roosevelt Robinson in Cairo, Georgia on January 31, 1919 to a family of sharecroppers, he was the youngest of three brothers and one sister. Jackie 's father left the family shortly after he was born and his…

Francisco would claim their only AAFC Divisional Championship in 1949; defeating the New York Yankees, 17-7. Offensively, fullback Joe Perry was unstoppable, as he would lead the league in rushing with 783 yards and eight trips into the end zone. Receiver Alyn Beals hauled-in 44 passes and 12 scores. Playing all four years in the AAFC, Quarterback Frankie Albert was a “T-Formation wizard” and for good reason. He tossed 88 scoring strikes, a league record. In addition, he was an all-round…

Born on September 30, 1980, Jennie Finch is an American softball player whom many young girls idolize. She had much success in at the collegiate and professional level, earning her many championships and awards. Finch has become softball 's most dominant and infamous softball player and one of the most respected athletes in all of professional sports. She has since retired from playing the game of softball but continues to advocate her love for the sport and its influence it can have on women…

As previously mentioned there are plenty of similarities between American football and League of Legends competitions, but there are also many differences. The main difference that is apparent to everyone is how physically demanding football is. With its multiple rules that try to protect players while tackling and going up for aggressive catches it makes this point widely known after seeing how these injuries affect all players, especially as they age. Players also have much longer careers in…

1950s Sports Following WWII, many Americans enjoyed a thriving economy and access to a range of new time-saving technologies. “With more money to spend and an excess of leisure time, people turned to sports for recreation and entertainment.” (Sports in America in the 1950s) Baseball was paramount in America, but other sports competed for the nation’s attention. Boxing and Golf were also very popular to sports fans in America, Rocky Marciano went on his historical, undefeated run between…

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…

League of Legends is an extremely popular multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) genre video game developed by Riot Games in Santa Monica, California. There are three different game modes players can choose to play: Classic, Dominion, and All-Random-All-Middle (commonly referred to as ARAM). In the Classic game mode, there are two different maps players can choose to play on: Summoner’s Rift, the largest map in the game, in which each team nexus, the essential goal in the Classic games, is…

how they played?The NBA was founded on June 6, 1946, in New York City it was invented by James Naismith.Earl Lloyd was the very first African American NBA player to ever play in the league and he was an African American. According to History “Lloyd grew up in Jim Crow Virginia, and went to West Virginia State where he was the star of the school’s championship basketball team.“According to Demographics Partitions, the NBA was composed of 74.4% black 23.3%white 1.8% Latino and 0.2% Asian Players.…

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…