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baseball, basketball, football, and track, but as years went past coaches saw he had the most potential in the sport of baseball. Pro-life Jackie Robinson was signed by the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.He wore the number 42 and he wore that number because 4…

Groups and Teamwork in Moneyball Group 1: Christian Demopoulos Gregory Klassen Michael Langford Nicole McEwan Rebecca Ranieri Patrick Trochaniak BU 288, Section E Instructor: Dr. Jessie Zhan December 9th, 2015 Groups and Teamwork in Moneyball Moneyball focuses on the struggles endured by the Oakland Athletics’ general manager Billy Beane in putting together a competitive baseball team. Faced with the imminent departure of the team’s star players to free agency, Beane…

The leader I chose is Jackie Robinson. Jackie Robinson was an African American man who erased the color line by allowing African Americans an opportunity to play sports no matter what was said. Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, GA. Robinson went to school at Washington Middle School, John Muir High school, Pasadena City college, and ending with University of California, Los Angeles. Robinson’s occupation was an American Major League Baseball Second Baseman. He originally started out with the…

majority of the second half of his career at first, cleating stepping on someone’s leg with the spike of your cleat- was not uncommon. One cleating incident was so serious is was reported, “One Southern player, Enos "Country" Slaughter of the St. Louis Cardinals, spiked Robinson particularly brutally, causing a seven-inch gash” (PBS). Umpires were helpless to any injuries caused to Robinson as if they choose to defend Robinson against a white man it could mean dire consequences. Occurrences of…

awards (1949-1954), World Series Champion (1955), NL MVP (1949), Major League Baseball Rookie of the Year (1947), National League Batting Champion (1949), two NL Stolen Base Leader Award (1947, 1949). Other honorable awards included having his jersey number forty-two retired by all Major League Baseball teams and he was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1962. Robinson died October 24, 1972, nine days after his appearance at the World Series, of a heart attack at his home; he was fifty-three…

Everyone has a chance to make a change, Jackie Robinson took that chance and inspired the world. He stood strong to overcome all of the adversity of being a black athlete during times of segregation. Even now in 2017 he inspires so many people including me. Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in the MLB, he served in the military, and he had one of the biggest influences in the civil rights movement. First of all, Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in the MLB. When he played in the…

coached the Bronx Bombers this season; playing in only 64 games. After the 1963 season, he was given the Yankees' manager job. In his first season of managing, 1964, he took the New York Yankees to a World Series, but lost in 7 games to the St. Louis Cardinals. He won 99 games in the regular season. After he lost this series, he was fired, the Yankees said it was due to lack of communication. Coaching for…

Jackie Robinson was the first black (African American) baseball player to make it into Major League Baseball in 1945. To many he was remembered as a hero in most people but in others they despised him for what he had become. He was also a gateway for all black (African American) people to go into sports and enrolments like sports. He was also very good in basketball, football and track the reason he loved sports so much is that there were no limits to how long or at what time or day it was. He…

Robinson died fat age 83 from diabetes related causes. Jackie became the first African American to be inducted into the baseball hall of fame. Jackie was inducted his first year of being eligible. On the 50th Anniversary of Jackie Robinson first game his number 42 was retired by Major league baseball. Jackie Robinson ad such a big impact on many people cause he inspired them to be brave and don’t let people put limits on you and you can do anything you want to if you work hard Without Jackie…

runner-up was Paul Goldschmidt who received 186 less points than Harper. Other NL MVP contenders, Joey Votto and Paul Goldschmidt both had impressive seasons. Goldschmidt hit .321 with 33 Home Runs and Votto hit .314 with 29 Home Runs. Normally these numbers would warrant more serious contention for MVP, but they could not match the slugging Bryce Harper. Despite the Washington Nationals struggles, 83-79 record, this year, Harper outperformed every other…