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Moneyball The 2011 motion picture Moneyball is based upon the Oakland Athletics 2002 baseball season. The movie opens with a quote by Mickey Mantle, “It’s unbelievable how much you don’t know about the game you’ve been playing all your life” (as cited in De Luca, Horovitz, Pitt, & Miller, 2011). His words set the tone for movie as it focuses on the management side of baseball and the relationships of those involved with building a team. Faced with the lowest budget in the industry, Billy…

and quality of pitchers, but people fail to recognize these and use PEDs as a scapegoat. Also, in the 2009 Hall of Fame, two members of the inducting class, Ferguson Jenkins and Paul Molitor were busted for using cocaine in the 1980s. They are only but a few of what is sure to be many players who have been caught using illegal drugs that are now inducted into the hall of fame. If players who were caught with these drugs are still eligible, why shouldn’t players who admitted to using PEDs be able…

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…