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    despite their disease, and he ended up being one of the best third baseman baseball has ever seen. In order to fight through diabetes, one must understand the disease. “Diabetes is a disease that occurs when the body is unable to use sugar properly, resulting in high levels of blood sugar” (Brill 101). Specifically, type 1 diabetes is typically diagnosed in children or young adults and is when the pancreas produces little to no insulin, so sugar…

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    The summer of 1947 was a summer Myers remembered wholly. Jackie Robinson and Larry Doby were the first Negro people let into Major League baseball, Joe Louis was heavyweight champion of the world, and “Sugar” Ray Robinson was the welterweight champion. “The New York Amsterdam News, our local weekly Negro newspaper, suggested that the United States was now going to treat Negroes as equals for the first time,” Myers recalled on page 35. He also recalls his life being revolved around school and…

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    individuals were seen as inferior to whites. Nothing was heard of in the 1920s of an African American being successful, including in professional sports. Baseball back then was a white man 's sport. Yet, when African Americans were successful in the baseball career, coverage of them was not broadcasted, there was an absence of coverage of the baseball players as personalities; hence, there was a self-esteem issue within themselves due to racial policies. In the 1920s, more families…

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    I. The year was 1918. Woodrow Wilson was president, World War 1 was ending, the Spanish flu became a pandemic, and the Boston Red Sox won the World Series. The last event would not occur for another 86 years until 2004 when the Boston Red Sox emerged victorious. II. The 2004 Boston Red Sox season was a magical rollercoaster ride that had all the thrills of Hollywood blockbuster. In the end it culminated in sweet victory for the long suffering fans of one of baseball’s most historic franchises as…

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    amount of money in five to fifteen years. Professional sports is one of the main entertainment sources in the United States, and most of the country’s most beloved athletes play in one of the following three professional leagues: the National Football league, Major league Baseball, and the National Basketball Association. There are many ways a professional athlete can become broke after retiring, but the majority struggle financially because of the following four reasons: the lure of the…

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    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 League of their Own is a film about the solution to keep baseball alive during WWII and that is to start a women’s baseball league. The Perfect Game is about a group of young boys from Monterrey, Mexico who aspire to be on a baseball team and when given…

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    The movie Mr. Baseball, depicts the cultural differences between the US and Japanese. The movie uses professional baseball as the as the backdrop to enlighten us of a few of the cultural difference. These cultural differences span from business practices to sports for entertainment. Mr. Selleck as “Jack Elliot” cultural programming portrays him in the movie as an immature, arrogant, bad attitude major league baseball player who is past his prime. He brags, gloats, shows off, and makes a scene…

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    People have started as early as since I was a little kid, I 've always loved shooting and dribbling and being in a gym. Basketball has made such a significant impact on many that it has drawn in interest of making it a job; playing at the professional level. The NBA was created through a rivalry between two basketball leagues fighting to win both fans and players. In 1949, the Basketball Association Of America (BAA) and the National Basketball league (NBL) came together to form to what is now…

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    Picture a world where the U.S. had only 45 states, where women could not vote, where the television and the radio did not exist. It is hard to imagine such a place, but it did exist. It existed 108 years ago when the Chicago Cubs last won the World Series (Cooper). Since then fans have looked near and far for an explanation as to why their beloved team could not win the World Championship. The most common and widely accepted cause for the Cubs’ failure is the Curse of the Billy Goat.…

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    female reporters from writing their articles. In late 1970s, some media such as newspapers were proposing to the teams to let anybody, regardless of gender, enter the men’s locker room. This proposal was denied by the commissioner of the Major League Baseball (MLB). According to Melissa Ludtke, a reporter from Time Magazine, the access to the New York Yankees’ locker room was denied by the Commissioner of the MLB, Bowie Kuhn, in 1977. When Bowie stated, “To permit members of the opposite sex…

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