Major League Baseball

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…

Native Americans have been viewed in a negative light ever since 1492. With Columbus’ first voyage to what he believed was the East Indies people have viewed Native Americans as bloodthirsty savages of an inferior race. These stereotypes have been passed on ever since through mediums such as the still image, novels, films, mascots, and cartoons; I believe that they have been perpetuated by a culture of ignorance in which no one cares to learn the truth. The modern world has made next to no…

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…

How To Reduce The Use of Steroids In Sports The use of steroids has been a big problem. Professional players use it to improve their performance while playing a sport. This issue has been going on for a long time and there have been many cases based on the use of steroids. Steroids can hurt the image of professionals because it is illegal for athletes to take any sort of substance. Players when being caught taking illegal substance many the times players lose sponsors because steroids are…

October 17, 1989 was a calm day in the San Francisco Bay Area. Two neighboring cities, San Francisco and Oakland were buzzing with excitement because each city’s major league baseball team, the San Francisco Giants and Oakland Athletics was competing in the World Series. It was a Bay Area rivalry for the biggest prize in baseball and the crowds were headed to San Francisco to prepare for a 5:30pm first pitch at Candlestick Park. Then, at around 5:03pm not long before the scheduled first pitch,…

Ethos is described as a person’s credibility and experience. The fact that Jackie Robinson is the first African American to play in major league baseball during an era (Robinson), where discrimination was at its highest peak is credibility, because of the obstacles he had to overcome in achieving his dream and belief. For instance, “From the beginning of his career with the Dodgers, Robinson's…

cost of participating. There have been cases where others have had to assist due to the cost of sport. An example of this comes from an essay written to the Major League Baseball Players’ Tribune by Andrew McCutchen. His coach paid for training camps and tournaments. McCutchen believes that he would not have made it to Major League Baseball if it wasn’t for the assistance from his coach (McCutchen, 2015). Coaches should not have to support athletes financially, especially since coaches are…

The Life of NBA Players Basketball is a major part of many peoples lives around the world. 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…

sports. Professional athletes should not use performance enhancing drugs because of all the hard work they have put in to make it to the pros. According to Cheating is Cheating: A look at Steroid use in Pro Sports, “Some say that it's best for the league as it adds to the entertainment of the sport. Who doesn't want…

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.…