Baseball

Jackie Robinson, age 28, becomes the first African-American player in Major League Baseball when he steps onto Ebbets Field in Brooklyn to compete for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Robinson broke the color barrier in a sport that had been segregated for more than 50 years. Exactly 50 years later, on April 15, 1997, Robinson’s groundbreaking career was honored and his uniform number, 42, was retired from Major League Baseball by Commissioner Bud Selig in a ceremony attended by over 50,000 fans at New…

actions and individuals who have made a substantial impression on the game of baseball. Together, Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey are the most significant. Branch Rickey, the orchestrator of Organized Baseball's desegregation, president and general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers believed that integration in Major League Baseball would be great for America. Branch Rickey put his knowledge into motion by seeking black baseball players looking for the perfect candidate to break the color…

This book is an autobiography of Josh Hamilton. He tells the struggles he had to overcome to get where he is today. If you do not watch baseball, odds are, you don’t know who Josh Hamilton is. Josh Hamilton is a Major League Baseball player from Raleigh, North Carolina. He had one older sibling named Jason. Josh was so good, when he was seven, he was playing on Jason’s team, which was for eleven year olds. By the time he was in middle school, he was already being scouted by MLB teams. He was a…

H-hour Major League Baseball in New Mexico Why is Major League Baseball so significant to New Mexico? From the start to where the association is now and the money it brings into the state, are some of the most important parts of New Mexico’s history and in current day. It brings in revenue to the local businesses and it really gives a chance for some pros to come to New Mexico that are big names. Also it provides a chance for some of the high school baseball players in the state…

track, and baseball. He was named the Most Valuable Player in baseball in 1938. Jackie then took his talents to UCLA, where he got accepted there on 4 sports scholarships. His older brother, Matthew, is the one who helped him strive to focus more on baseball. However, after 3 1/2 years of college at UCLA he dropped out because of financial problems. Later after that he got drafted to the army. From 1942 to 1944, Jackie was a Second Lieutenant…

ultimately grant the commissioners the authority to discipline players for acts deemed not in the "best interest" of the sport. “The "best interest" clause developed in Major League Baseball (MLB) in response to the Chicago Black Sox scandal during the 1919 World Series, where gamblers bribed players to throw the coveted baseball championship.” (YOUNG KIM & PARLOW 575). All they want is to make the sport seem like it's a perfect place with no problems and those who break the rules, will be…

The Most Famous Woman in Baseball Effa Manley was not only a baseball executive, but also a socialite, a civil rights leader, and a business leader. She was the first female to make it into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Throughout her life, baseball was her life. Effa grew up loving baseball, and so did her husband, Abe Manley. Together, they owned and managed the Newark Eagles, a Negro National League franchise from 1934 to 1948. This movie will follow who Effa Manley was and how she…

What would happen if Major League Baseball held a league-wide draft where every player in each organization became available and each General Manager could choose a total of five players to steal from other teams; but if two GMs selected the same player, he would remain with his current team and GMs were not allowed to communicate with each other? Earlier this year, SB Nation conducted this game theory simulation by having 30 of their writers act as the GMs for each team. The most intriguing…

way that baseball was integrated impacted the African American community by severely limiting the power and influence that their community would have in the sport. Branch Rickey’s primary reason for integrating baseball was not to help aid black athletes; he primarily did it for the benefit of his team’s success and to make sure that white society had full control of the integration of their favorite sport. While Integration was successful both in bringing black athletes back into baseball and…

In the photo, a baseball is being hit by a bat in a game. This photo was taken at a Gonzaga baseball game on campus (I used a profession photo because they are way better and a second photo is used to show the moment of contact which is what I am talking about). In terms of the physics in the photo. The focus of this paper will be on the energy transfer from the bat to the ball, which causes the ball to reverse directions, increase velocity, and create a launch angle to potentially be a…