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Executive Summary Steward Roddey, the general manager of Oakland A’s baseball team is faced with the decision of whether or not to give a hike to Mark Nobel, the second best pitcher in the American League. Nobel’s agent was commanding a contract fee in the region of $600,000 per year owing to his performance statistics from the 1980 season. One major argument presented by Nobel and his agent is that Nobel has the ability to attract crowds and thereby increase attendance to the games and drive…

The setting of this novel, CURVEBALL: The Year I Lost My Grip, by Jordan Sonnenblick, is set in Peter's hometown. It takes place the summer before Pete's freshman year. Pete was playing baseball all summer and 1 game changed his life. After this game he had just played his life was very depressing. Everything was just going down hill. He had his first day of school and realized life isn’t that bad. Things started to get better for Pete’s life. Peter Friedman was just an average teenage…

Giannetti defines ideology as, “a body of ideas reflecting the social needs and aspirations of an individual, group, class, or culture” (448). A film’s purpose is often reflected through the ideology it possesses and in this case, the ideology expresses the treatment of minorities in baseball culture. A League of their Own, The Perfect Game, and 42 all contain an explicit sense of ideology with a thematic orientation towards teaching people about treatment of minorities in baseball culture. A…

The Professor and the Madman, is a tale of tragedy, insanity, and academia. The book tells the story of two men, Dr. James Murray and Dr. William C. Minor. These men were very similar in nature, but led very different lives due to circumstances of environment and mental health. Dr. Murray was a lifelong academic, always pursuing education. Dr. Minor was a surgeon for the Union Army in the United States Civil War, who grew increasingly madder until he murdered a man in the streets of London,…

The person that I interviewed had a job title by the name of Rawlings director of pro baseball services. That job is working directly with players and executives of teams directly in Major League Baseball. As a part of the job, during the season you are required to be at as many games as possible and in the offseason, there is never a day that goes by where you will not be in contact with multiple players or executives of teams. Another aspect of the job is to recruit baseball players to sign…

although Jack Elliot’s team was called the Dragons, the logo and colors oddly resembled the Brooklyn Dodgers. Japan even has a Baseball Hall of Fame, just like America. Audiences are used to seeing films with players being traded between major and minor league teams, but this was an unusual twist going from American to Japanese baseball. The main character, Jack Elliot, represented society at the time because of the way he completely overlooked Japanese players. Just like Americans, he walked in…

In the play Fences, August Wilson divides this play into two acts, One and Two, with four and five scenes respectively. It raises issues that the African-Americans faced mostly on racism. The main character is a man named Troy who has a rough time providing for his family. When he was younger, he was arrested for accidentally killing someone else during a robbery gone wrong. In his time in prison, he practiced baseball and became very good at it. He then plays baseball with the hope of earning…

The Great Life of Mickey Mantle Number 7. A baseball Hall of Fame number that will always be remembered in professional baseball. However, a number is just a number without the man who made it great. That man was Mickey Mantle. Born during the Great Depression, this did not define Mickey Mantle, who seemed destined to have a stunning career in baseball, but Mantle will also be remembered for his life outside sports and his legacy. Mickey Mantle grew up a normal boy in rural Oklahoma. He was…

the war and was killed. Hugh has six children, Everett, Irwin, Peter, Kincaid, Winifred and Beatrice. He is a good father, even though he does drink sometimes and is always smoking. Hugh was injured early in his baseball career and was stuck in the minor leagues. As he is still trying…

Brian Dudley a 16 year old boy that was recently hired to be the batboy for his favorite major league baseball team, the Detroit Tigers. He lives with only his mother but misses the presence of his father Cole Dudley. Who himself had pitched for the Detroit Tigers and several other major league baseball teams himself. His father now plays in Japan where he looks to revitalize his chances of playing in the big leagues again. Ironically Brian Dudley despite having the baseball genes and…