Major League Soccer

In my very first T-ball game I was playing out field, I was 6 years old and it was 2 days before my birthday. My team had a game at game farm park, the ball was hit towards me and I started to run after it, the ball completely missed my glove and hit me directly in the face. Baseball has always been a big part in my culture, same with family tradition. Baseball runs in my family. My Dad played it all throughout highschool and same with both my brothers. My dad was very good at…

Most people are familiar with the ball game baseball or America’s pastime, as it is also known as. Baseball has been played for over a century. However, baseball is declining in popularity within the United States of America. Americans are shifting towards football as their sport of choice. To reenergize the game, a new sport was created called blernsball. Inside this essay you will find out how to play blernsball and also learn some tips and tricks for the sport. If you already know how to play…

Have you ever wanted to go to a postseason game? It was the middle of October and the Giants just beat the Nationals in the NLDS. My family was watching the game in the living room. My dad had asked us if we wanted to attend NLCS game 1. Obviously being a Giants fan and the game being in St. Louis we would be able to go, so we all agreed we should go. Then my dad said that if we go to the NLCS game and the giants go to the WS and so do the Royals, then we would not be able to go to a WS game.…

In the exciting 2014 World Series the San Francisco Giants defeated the Kansas City Royals. However, only 12.9 million people watched the World Series which was less than cable television’s The Walking Dead. How did America’s pastime fall to a show about rampant zombie attacks? The answer is complex and requires examination of baseball and history to understand. Baseball started out as a sandlot sport that peacefully coexisted with professional baseball that centered around three largely…

are you are and what you do. Some of the players had even gone through the Progressive Era, which was a time of social activism and political reform in the U.S. and to see the ball players go through it and struggle, really opened my eyes. Another major issue that most of the players faced was The Great Depression. The Great Depression was the largest economic stock market crash in history. The owners would fear this because they…

42 (2013) is directed and written by Brian Helgeland, which is a biographical sports movie based on Jackie Robinson. The film depicts the difficulties Jackie Robinson has to face while entering his baseball career. This film also captures the emotions of blacks when they see Robinson play for the Dodgers since he was the first African American to play in MLB. The film not only shows the difficulties a talented black man has to face during his baseball career, but it also depicts segregation in…

north side of Chicago, in Wrigley Field ,their stadium. They compete in the MLB or Major League Baseball. They went through many transformations from the year they started. They went to many World Series, but didn’t win most of them. This essay is about the history of the Chicago Cubs. Early Cubs History- In 1870, the Chicago White Stockings were introduced into the baseball world. They joined the NL or National League in 1876. Their first NL game was against the Louisville Colonels. The…

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 a Hollywood blockbuster. In the end, it culminated in sweet victory for the long suffering fans of one of baseball’s most historic franchises…

It was a cool, dry morning when the team rounded up. Our coach had notified the team that we were in risk of elimination. The faces of my teammates were as hopeless a rose in a desert. As a captain, I spoke out and tried to lift our spirits with a speech. Baseball is such an unpredictable sport, I said. The time spent on the practice field was for moments like these. With our backs against the wall, we had to put up a fight against four other teams. And that was just to make it to the…

Pitching is my dream; pain is my problem. For the past four seasons I have been unable to complete a full season without pain or injury. This began in the spring of my eighth grade year when I was informed that I had a stress fracture in my elbow caused by a result of pitching. This devastated me as I knew I would miss most of my season after working all offseason to get ready for the season. Luckily, I was able to come back with approximately a month to go in the season, however my velocity was…