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familiar with it because my brother had played there before me. I remember how much I loved to go there to play baseball. I played for the Cardinals, which is my favorite major league team today, and we were pretty good. We made it to the championship for the two years I played parish ball. We lost it the first time, but won it the…

in my opinion you’re wasting your life.(jackie robinson).” This was a quote said by Jackie Robinson. ,meaning to not sit around and life pass you by,to live in the moment. He was born 1919 january 31 in cairo Georgia. He was born with a mom and a dad a sharecroppers . there names where mallie and jerry Robinson. They said a couple of month later his father left with the neighbors wife He grew up with racism and neglect from neighbors and people all round him so he knew he could get acceptance…

today, but in my opinion the title goes to Mickey Mantle.Today's people don’t know about the greatest players of the past.Mickey Mantle is the greatest player in Major league baseball (MLB) history, because he holds many records, he won many awards, and many historians will agree to this. As a kid Mickey learned to switch hit because his dad was right handed and would pitch to him while batting left-handed. However his grandfather was left handed and Mickey would bat right-handed against him.…

is played today in the United States and the earliest history of baseball in America is in the late 1700’s in Massachusetts. The game continued to be played in the United States in different areas. The actual person to invent baseball is part of a major sports myth. For many years a man by the name of Abner Doubleday was given credit for developing baseball. The funny part of the story is while it was stated he developed baseball in 1839 it wasn’t until years later he got the credit due to a…

Baseball is the one sport you can always have fun with your friends. Of course I want to win, but the biggest part is to have fun. My dad also is a huge fan of baseball and he is the one who coaches me still until this very day. My brothers have been coached by my dad and I have learned a lot from them. People may think that baseball is not that fun to watch but how can you not like deep home runs, diving catches, or robbed home runs. Even though this…

When someone says Major League Baseball, you probably think of all the teams and players. Cardinals, Padres, Dodgers, Reds, Clayton Kershaw, Joey Votto, etc. When you hear the word softball, you probably think of college teams or some even ask what softball is. Softball has become such a small sport because of baseball taking over. Although, I do not mind that, baseball is an amazing sport to play and watch. Softball is just the same and gets less credit. One person that is very famous in…

Born into an underprivileged Puerto Rican family, José Rodriguez has overcome the seemingly impossible. Today is the seventh and final game of the Major League Baseball World Series featuring the Miami Marlins and the Los Angeles Dodgers. Due to an injury in the pitching rotation for the Dodgers, José Rodriguez has been called up from the minor leagues to pitch if he is needed. This is a very interesting decision by the Dodger’s coach, Dave Roberts. There is nothing more risky in baseball than…

Eating, is one of the main symbols in order to survive. By discussing symbolism and eating as a whole, it will be easier to better understand America. Symbol usage relies on learning, memory, and emotion. However, when we symbolically eat, our brain doesn’t process the symbols, it processes eating to satisfy hunger. This is because, the symbols we give things is not what’s important to humans, it’s what they represent. Humans are commonly symbolically interacting through eating. For example, the…

The topic that I chose was general anxiety disorder, also known as GAD. One of the reasons why I chose this disorder is because my dad has anxiety. Another reason was because I wanted to know more about the disorder, its symptoms, and what people with it have to deal with every day. Learning more about problems that affect people is important to me because understanding what people are dealing with helps with understanding them as a person. With most things in life, there are facts that people…

more than that. This date was a great day in history where a hero was born and a legend was created. September 8th, 1998 represents the day that Mark McGwire broke the record for the most home runs in a single season. “The 1998 Major League Baseball home run chase in Major League Baseball was the race between first baseman Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals and right fielder Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs that resulted in both players breaking Roger Maris’ long-standing and highly coveted…