Highlander: The Series

heard cries of “Coward” and “Commie” during games (Hirsch p. 144). However, before the end of the season, all seemed to be forgiven by the public as Mantle blossomed into one of the best players in the game. After leading the Yankees to a World Series championship in 1951, 1952, and 1953- while also being named an all-star in every one of those seasons- everyone seemed to forgive Mantle for not serving and it was hardly ever brought up again. Mantle went on to be named the Associated Press…

or in America we call it like to call Soccer, is the worlds most popular sport. The World Cup which occurs every four years and consist of 32 different teams that represent their country. Where as in the “World Series” only two American teams are represented. So why call it the World series? The process to make it into the World Cup goes on for three years. Up to 209 teams are eligible to qualify but only 32 make it to the big stage. The world is divided into 6 different groups, AFC, OFC,…

The Steroid Era in Major League Baseball lasted from the 1990’s to 2004. It was a time where players from all around the league took performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) to improve themselves. It came to an end in October, 2003. According to “Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Baseball” by California State University Professor Paul D. Staudohar, when the San Francisco Chronicle posted that the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (BALCO) had been giving out illegal performance enhancing drugs to athletes…

When I was little I preferred playing Harry Potter over playing hide and seek. Usually I played Ginny and I would be kidnapped by “Bellatrix”. Then I got rescued and we’d start the game over. To me the world 's made up in books were so much more interesting than the real world. They were better, brighter, and full of magic. My love of reading from a young age was the foundation to so many other branches of my personality as well. I read so much that understanding words and writing them was…

Denton "Cy" Young lived from 1867-1955 and played professional baseball for five different teams throughout his career. He is arguably the best pitcher ever to play the game of baseball, being the only pitcher ever to win 500 games (Baseball Reference). In 1937, Young was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame (Baseball Almanac). Cy Young's tombstone effectively uses both ethos and logos through statistics to convey the message of his credibility in the game of baseball as one of the top…

Gianlorenzo Bernini’s David is a historical piece of marble art that shows great emotion and engages the viewers in action. Bernini’s David could possibly be mistaken as a major league pitcher throwing a 95 mile an hour fastball. He gathers all his strength for each one of his pitches and puts all his effort into it. But this specific life size piece of marble sculpture has a different meaning to it. Some may not know exactly, but the emotion in Davids face tells a whole different story. The one…

A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving, tells the extraordinary story of the walking miracle, Owen Meany and his friendship with John Wheelwright. John met Owen because he was the “runt” of their little league team. One tragic day, Owen hits a foul ball which strikes and kills John’s mother. Owen helps John with coping and grieving, which brings them closer together and they form an unbreakable bond. Together they learn life lessons, test their friendship, and discover new things about…

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…

logical fallacies, he dismantles Bernstein’s claims of the harmonic series as basis for all music. He writes that even the “simple diatonic scale requires…gross adjustment” (Keiler, 208). This is indeed true, with the fourth being 29 cents flat, the third 14 cents flat, and the seventh 12 cents flat (as compared to equal temperament tuning). Keiler also says the diatonic scale reaches into the outermost limits of the harmonic series. This is again factual, since the major seventh doesn’t appear…