Jessica St. Clair

1961 he finished second in the National League Rookie of the Year balloting and even garnered a few National League Most Valuable Player votes after hitting .278 with 10 homers and 42 RBI as the Braves regular catcher. In 1971 while playing for the St. Louis Cardinals he transitioned from catcher to third base and led the NL with 230 hits to go with a .363 batting average, 24 home runs and 137 RBI. For these accomplishments he was named the league’s Most Valuable Player. In 18 big league…

Jackie was a great baseball player. He was knowed for his rapidity and for his great talent of base thief. Born in 1919, he showed a lot of talents in his sport when he was very young. At that time, black people didn’t had acces to the major league of baseball so no one of them, even if they was the best of the best, couldn’t be able to have a real career in baseball. We are in the first half of the century in the United-states. Slavery is illegal but racial equality isn’t present. A black…

Sabermetrics is regularly characterized as the target investigation of baseball by methods for insights. The term was made by Bill James as reverence to the Society of American Baseball Research—SABR. Yet, sabermetrics didn't pick up standard consideration until Michael Lewis' book Moneyball was distributed in 2003. Lewis chronicled the endeavors of Oakland Athletics General Manager Billy Beane, who has utilized measurable examination to direct the Athletics to five playoff appearances over the…

“All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me, what it was I hit and I tell them, I don't know except it looked good.” That was a famous quote by Babe Ruth, or his former name George Herman Ruth Jr., he was born in Baltimore, Maryland on February 6, 1895. (“Babe Ruth Biography”). George started his fame at only nineteen, he was a starting pitcher and was playing for the Red Sox. Babe Ruth also batted and threw left handed. The positions he played…

3rd Interview (1970-1980) When Marlena Peel was growing up, she played outside everyday and came home for dinner to the ringing of a bell. With her neighborhood friends she played games, rode bikes, and skated on skateboards. However, they never wore helmets or knee pads, and seat belts were never used passed infant car seats. When asked about popular fads, Marlena replied, “Big hair, parachute pants, and MTV was all the rage.” ATM’s, microwaves, touch tone phones, and the Internet were all…

Our part one article with the first set of seven facts you never knew about MLB really filled you in on everything you were missing out on about your favorite sport. Finally, we have returned with our part two article to really give you the scoop on Major League Baseball! Read on to discover our top eight facts that you never knew about MLB! Number Eight: The Da Vinci of Sports Deion Sanders is known as an amazing, athletic tool of all trades. Mastering the arts of both profession baseball and…

Daniel Rothman Mr. Sullivan Period 3 4/29/16 America’s Pastime You're in humid 98 degree weather you have been standing there for over an hour. That is just part of America's pastime baseball. Baseball was invented in the 1800 hundreds and since then has evolved on so many different levels. There also is a part of science that has to deal with this fun but simple sport, but we will get to that later. Baseball just isnt a sport it part of America's culture, and in my opinion the United States…

GN: Little did I know, I could have come to you for this kind of thing. JS: I worked in Agway. GN: And that's pretty much the summer activities through the years there wouldn’t be much chance for that. JS: No we worked all year long. GN: Saturdays or the holidays? JS: Saturdays and one or two afternoons, evenings that was a lot of five to nine sifts and we would work five to nine shift. GN: OK quick forward now how did you learn about Marist? What's the connection for you coming here? You…

The game of baseball has a long and questionable history. Where did the game of baseball develop from, some argue the game developed from the English game cricket while others will argue that the game developed from an old game called rounders. Rounders is believed to have been played during the Tudor period of English history. Both games were played for many years. The game of baseball is played today in the United States and the earliest history of baseball in America is in the late 1700’s…

Steve Waugh - My Sporting Hero Steve Waugh is a perfect role model for adolescents. Not only has this man reached some amazing new feats in cricket but after his retirement he started a foundation in which he helps kids with rare illnesses and diseases. Many of the people (aged 0-25) that have been helped by this foundation often have has little to no funding to help them out. Before Steve Waugh helped hundreds in India and started his foundation, He was just a young man who was becoming one…