Major League Baseball

October 14th, 2016 was an exciting day for baseball fans in Toronto, Ontario. The Toronto Blue Jays prepared to face off against Cleveland in the American League Championship Series. Catch anything out of sorts about that last sentence (specifically relating to the teams)? Read it one more time. The full name of the team the Cleveland Indians was purposefully left out. The Toronto Blue Jays play-by-play announcer, Jerry Howarth, also uses selective vocabulary like this. Howarth’s protest efforts…

deficit, something that had never been done in professional baseball history. B.2. According to the ESPN 30 for 30 documentary on the series, many fans of the team did not believe the team could still win and were looking to just win 1 game. B.2.a) Going into the ninth inning however it looked bad. (B.2.a.1) The Red Sox were down and legendary closer Mariano Rivera, who was viewed as being as close to a sure thing as there was in baseball, was on the…

become one of the best-known baseball parks in the nation due to it being the third oldest ball. It is home to the Major League Baseball team The Los Angeles Dodgers, who once played in Brooklyn Dodgers. The Dodger Stadium only stands where it does because of the many homes lost in the late 1940s in what is called Chavez Ravine. Dodger stadium has become a historical landmark in Southern…

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…

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…

passion into their livelihood. From the four most recognized professional sports in America - Baseball (MLB) , Football (NFL) , Basketball (NFL), and Hockey (NHL) - only a select handful of athletes reach the professional level, and even less remain at that level and see long-term success. On an emotional night in the Bronx, on September 11th, 2015, I viewed the Toronto Blue Jays vs. New York Yankees baseball game. It provides an unique experience to shift focus from simply rooting for your…

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…

Jose Canseco, a Major League Baseball (MLB) player who admitted to the use of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs), once said, “I don 't recommend steroids for everyone, but for certain individuals, I truly believe, because I 've experimented with it for so many years, that it can make an average athlete a super athlete. It can make a super athlete incredible. Just legendary” (Bodley). PEDs promote muscle growth without the fatigue that comes with normal muscle building activities, allowing…

How would you react to a life changing experience that impacted your life, as well as your whole country? Life changing experiences could either have a positive or negative outcome. The memoir written by Melba Pattillo Beals from Warriors Don’t Cry, the autobiography written by Jackie Robinson from, I Never Had it Made, and Feng Ru from the article,“The Father of Chinese Aviation” written by Rebecca Maksel all faced life changing experiences. Only through perseverance were they able to impact…

great things. Some other important people in this time were Al Gore and George Bush because of the close presidential race in the year of 2000. (“New Voices…” 1279-1466). An important person living during this era was Derek Jeter because he was a baseball…