Agents of change throughout history have changed the world dramatically. From Abraham Lincoln, to Steve Jobs, agents of change make people think. There are three specific qualities that every agent of change must possess. In order for someone to be an agent of change, they must possess bravery, faith in others and their self, and be willing to take risks. An agent of change must possess bravery because they need to be able to take risks, without being afraid of the outcome. Bravery is required…
The White Sox of 1919 are considered to be one of the only teams to successfully fix the World Series because they had a set plan to do it. The 1919 white sox were able to fix the world series because they only let a select few know about the plan, they had other people put the bets for the players so they wouldn’t be seen, and they had people put bets on against them so they could make the most amount of profit as possible. The reason why players from the team decided to go along with fixing…
joined a plethora of other Dodger players currently in varying degrees of rehab. It's safe to say the injury bug has plagued this team. But, Kershaw, our ace, our 3-time Cy Young Award winner, our MVP, the force behind our team and the best pitcher in baseball, that one really took the wind out of our sails. We, as fans, had to…
When I was about six years old, my friends who were about 12 or 13 at the time invited me to the baseball field. The one bad part was that to get to the baseball field we had to cross a major road to get there, but at least there was a light. My parents told me I could only go if we were being driven, but I went anyway. It was scary crossing the street, mostly because we did not cross at the crosswalk. We were too lazy to walk down the neighborhood and cross at the light. It was about 7:00…
Game Day I woke up thinking, It's game day. I was as nervous as a mouse surrounded by a cat. My 13-year-old baseball team was playing the team that won the championship two years in a row. I kind of thought we all were nervous because if we lost that meant we go home and nobody wanted to go home. Since I was awake early in the morning I thought I should do my daily routine of stretching and eating my oatmeal and salad. Since our game was later that day like a night game I just did a few sit ups…
well I do not know if I can call him that. I looked at the other kids playing with their dads. Playing baseball, basketball, or even just hanging out with their father knowing that they loved them. For me it was a different point of view I saw it differently, my father never liked me in any way. We would never do things that the other children were doing. We never did go outside and play baseball, basketball or any other sport that seemed fun. It seemed that he and I could never get along. We…
individuals were seen as inferior to whites. Nothing was heard of in the 1920s of an African American being successful, including in professional sports. Baseball back then was a white man 's sport. Yet, when African Americans were successful in the baseball career, coverage of them was not broadcasted, there was an absence of coverage of the baseball players as personalities; hence, there was a self-esteem issue within themselves due to racial policies. In the 1920s, more families…
“A league of their own” is a film which follows the story of a women’s league baseball team. The film was set in 1943, a period when baseball was predominately a male sport. The sudden arise of a women only team was met with ridicule. This essay analyzes the social structure of the women’s baseball team with a focus on the concept of status inconsistency. We examine the negative view of the females as baseball players and how the females developed to overcome that problem. The film is set…
The Sandlot is a coming-of-age comedy film about young baseball players in the summer of 1962. Scotty Smalls moves to a new town in California, wants to be friends w the 8 boys on the neighborhood sandlot baseball team. They all take baseball really seriously. Scotty gets to play but is humiliated because he can’t catch or throw. With the help of his teammate Benny, he learns. He and his teammates get into all sorts of shenanigans, like getting kicked out of the pool and throwing up on an…
this story I am going to tell you about when I hit my first home run and second home run and how doing such really amazing thing can humble you.. And one more thing I will talk about is the type of bat I was using and where you can buy that type of baseball equipment. So this was the day me and my parents…