Little League World Series

Fred was born in Little Falls, Minnesota in 1901. Zollner Corporations; formed in 1912, was a tier-one supplier of pistons to major companies including Ford, General Motors, John Deere, International Harvester [Now Navistar], and Outboard Maine. The Zollner Pistons began in 1937 in Fort Wayne, Indiana and began playing as an independent in 1939. In 1941 The Zollner Pistons joined the National Basketball League. The Zollner Pistons were a very popular franchise, winning the world championship in…

Methacton High graduate Joey Casselberry tweeted from his account a derogatory comment about Little League World Series standout Mo’ne Davis on Friday, March 20. Within hours, Bloomsburg University had suspended Casselberry from its baseball team in a story that drew national attention. There is a student policy on the use of technology, and I know they…

the early 20th, Americans saw the rise and fall of their country. Their country fell during the Great Depression. Their economy weaken and their spirits broken. Then, everything changed with World War 2. America grabbed their economic unrest by the neck and rose to become the most powerful nation in the world. This rapid rise and continuous success bolstered the egos of Americans. They feel that nothing could stop them and they are right to feel that way. However, there are people who believes…

Hall of Fame Athletes who use performance enhancing drugs during their time in professional sports should not be allowed in their respective sport’s Hall of Fame because they did not earn that right by sheer talent but instead cheated to give themselves an unfair advantage. These men and women are supposed to be the role models for today 's youth athletes. But these days, it’s sad because if an athlete has a remarkable year, or a remarkable night or even an amazing hit, most people will…

1903 when the Wright Brothers flew the first airplane. Many of the dime novels or pulp magazines were about adventure. In 1914 World War One broke out (Faragher 770). Many novels afterward were written about war. The novels were about things such as the dangers of war or specific battles. This type of literature was…

with evenings spent at the dinner table waiting for Jeopardy to start; then, I would read my older brother’s comics or The Magic Tree House series until I couldn’t hold my eyes open. I was a tomboy for lack of a better word; a shy, reserved kid who had trouble expressing herself. As a result, my parents took my love of sports and enrolled me in as many leagues as possible. Playing basketball, softball, volleyball, and gymnastics gave me a bevy of teammates and, to my parents’ approval, a few…

These types of fans never jump on board with one specific team but they will cheer for whichever team is winning at the time. When sports analysis predicts who will win the Super Bowl or the World Series, these are the fans that are the first ones to say they are rooting for that specific team. The true sports fans despise these fans because they are the first ones in line at the sports stores to buy all the gear that they can grab even though…

The conflict theory, or otherwise called perspective is based of the ideas of Karl Marx. He believed society was constantly changing and evolving, due to class conflict. Marx believed that society was broken down into a series of divisions, which he used to analyze what happened in modern society. You had the bourgeoisie, which consisted of the “handicrafts people and shopkeepers” (cite book) who owned their own tools and shops as well as staffed them. The working class…

responsible for the domination of New York teams in the 1950’s, where every World Series had at least one New York team every year except 1959. Most people know him for “the catch,” an over the shoulder grab he made in the 1954 World Series that is synonymous with October Baseball. But what most people do not know about this man was that he had so much more courage than the average man. He was an outstanding black ballplayer in a league of baseball dominated by white’s. While Jackie Robinson…

the sports: baseball, tennis, golf, swimming, football, boxing, and hockey were created.1 Specifically in Canada, hockey was a major Canadian sport that was also considered as Canada’s national sport due to the popularity of it increasing in such little time.…