Gentle Giant

Batting up, pitch the ball! Did you heard that noise? It acclaims to be the Rockford Peaches playing a game. They will take you on their adventure of being the first all women's baseball league. The Rockford Peaches work as a team and never gave up even though money was low during good years, and bad years. The Peaches start was difficult to get the team together. Professional Chicago Cubs P.K. wants women to play baseball (Randle, 1992). Having 120 games a year, and be first girls in the…

The athlete I choose to do is Mark Teixeira. Mark Teixeira is a 34 year old First Baseman and Designated Hitter for the New York Yankees of Major League baseball. Mark Teixeira was drafted 5th overall in 2001 by the Texas Rangers, the team in which he would eventually make his major league debut for in 2003. In 2007 he was traded to the Atlanta Braves of the National League and then was traded to the Los Angeles Angles of Anaheim the next year. Teixeira would settle down in 2008 when he signed…

Breaking The Curse From it’s origination in 1901, the Boston Red Sox has always been one of the most iconic professional baseball teams, even winning the inaugural 1903 World Series (then as the Boston Americans). This fame would only grow in 1914 when they came across a strong left-handed pitcher with an even stronger bat known as George Herman “Babe” Ruth (Britannica 2014). With Ruth, the Red Sox won 515 games and lost 359. They also won 3 World Series in the 6 years in which Ruth played with…

I believe that the Baseball Hall of Fame should stay in New York, but be relocated to Brooklyn. New York has many historical ties to the game of baseball, and it’s more of a central location comparted to Cooperstown. The legend of Abner Doubleday was said to have stated playing baseball in New York in as a rural past time in 1939. Even though this is just a myth many baseball fans associate the beginning of baseball with the state of New York. In 1845 the Knickerbockers were created as a…

The situation I will be sharing of where the power and prestige theory was presented is my summer baseball coaching job. This past summer I hired as an assistant coach for a 17 year old Long Island baseball team. The organization that the team was affiliated with was an organization that I have been involved with since the very beginning of my baseball career. Besides myself there was also another college baseball player that attended and played baseball at a local division III university,…

The whole country watched as America’s favorite pastime slowly came to a halt. Owners were ready to put their mark on the game. Tempers were rising among players and they decided to do something about it. Throughout our Leaving a Legacy unit, we have explored many different legacies that were left by people and movements. The player’s strike of 1994 was the player's way of speaking out against the owners of baseball. They wanted to speak their mind, and that’s what they did. The strike of 1994…

Koby Schneider Inquiry 3 Final Draft Expansion of Instant Replay in the MLB Baseball has always been an American pastime sport with very much history behind it. The sport of baseball can help us americans put aside our differences and come together to create a massive multi-million person fan base. This is a very close second of largest fan bases in america trailing right behind the NFL. According to the Gallup over 56% of americans today are Major League Baseball (MLB) fans stated by “Jones,…

Jackie Robinson Baseball is America's best pastime sport. Jackie Robinson was an American professional baseball second basemen , who became the first African American to play Major League baseball in the modern era. Perhaps the most historically significant baseball player ever , ranking with Babe Ruth in terms of his impact of the national pastime. Jackie Robinson is a hero due to his heroic traits of being strong ,and showing leadership. Being the first African American to play Major…

So how did Jackie Robinson break the color barrier….he stood his ground. Jackie Roosevelt Robinson was born on January 31 1919, in Cairo, Georgia. His mother name was Mallie Robinson, Jackie had three brothers and one sister, Mack, Frank, Edgar, and his sister Willa. When Jackie was six months old his father left. His mom Mallie moved him and his brothers and sister into an all white neighborhood in California. His mother would not let the white people run them off. Jackie went to middle school…

Choices affect judgement, how people feel towards others and friendship. Choices can affect judgement. Mickey Mantle chose to judge Holling by what he wore, the result was he lost two of his fans by making a choice that might have hurt Holling’s feelings. Now Holling trust Danny Hupfer more because he defended Holling by giving his signed baseball back to Mickey because he is a loyal friend. One example of my explanation in The Wednesday Wars is, “Mickey Mantle looked me up and down.…