Minor league

This started with the creation of the Negro baseball leagues. In the 1880’s, the Negro National League and the Eastern Colored League were two leagues created to help blacks assert themselves. Soon players and teams gained popularity, thus empowering some oppressed people. During the time of the Civil War, the black community became caught up in the same baseball passion that had taken root in the rest of the country. Black teams and local leagues formed across the nation, and in the 1880s,…

were to produce more home runs, the probability of getting noticed, and signed, by a major league would skyrocket. We do not seem to realize just how many doors open once a baseball player sets foot into the world of Major League Baseball. New opportunities include more money, more praise, more glory, and more product endorsements (which, in turn, equals even more money). With so many players in the minor leagues, just a ladder step below the big guys, no wonder their mouths water at the…

become even better at completing these scouting reports. After a while, I am hoping that if he sees the quality of work that he likes potentially trying to bring me on for an internship in the summer. By doing this I would gain experience with a major league team and as long as I do a professional job through the connections that I could potentially make with the Orioles, be invited back to intern again or even hired a job post college. The second piece of advice that struck me was doing…

to determine which sport and how to contact that person. I first started with the Toledo Mud Hens, but didn’t receive any call backs. I also contacted the Lansing Lugnuts and the West Michigan White Caps and again no call backs. So I looked up minor league baseball teams and the name El Paso Chihuahuas caught my attention. Looking up their front office staff on their website I seen that Angela Olivas is the Director, Marketing and Communications for the team. So I decided to contact her and was…

Unfair game is a story about Billy Beane. General manager of the Oakland Athletics (A’s) who used statistical analysis to win the baseball league. Beane was once a great baseball player during high school. Judging from his potential and skill, many baseball scouts wanted him in the team. However, he struggled in the minor league and never made it to the major league. Due to his unsuccessful career as a player, he retired as he was no longer passionate about playing baseball anymore. After that,…

During this time in America if you were an African American or Latin American you played in the Negro baseball league. In 1946, Jackie Robinson signed with the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro Baseball League, his first professional baseball team. Baseball took off like a rocket ship, World War II had just ended and what better time to capitalize on the opportunity to change America’s temperament on a race…

Polymodality and Dual Modality Concepts and Definitions According to Vincent Persichetti, “polymodality involves two or more different modes on the same or different tonal centers. The modal strands may be melodic or harmonic.” In the most traditional conception a melodic line in order to be considered modal, apart from being diatonic to a mode (traditional or synthetic), needs to contain no alterations. This also applies to modal harmonic content. Persichetti states that “a pure modal…

For this paper, I listened the RadioLab episode on music language. I chose this one because, being a musician myself, I’ve always been interested in the psychology behind music, specifically why certain sounds can so drastically alter our emotion. After all, they’re all just vibrations. So what is it about some vibrations that make them so much more significant to us than others? This is one of the primary questions addressed in this podcast. In discussing how music affects us emotionally, the…

period, parents need to be directly involved when an abortion is going to be occurred. The consent law can allow young minors to have consent at the age of 12. The problems that are occur is when the states have exceptions of certain groups only such as teenage pregnancy or parents, and married teenagers. If the teenage…

sought to expand the number of available synthetic scales for composition. In 1907 the Italian composer Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924) as part of an examination of the tonal system based on what he called “the two Series of Seven,” meaning the major and minor keys in relation to the chromatic scale, attempted to write all the possible heptatonic (seven-tone) scales in his book Sketch of a New Esthetic of Music. Busoni states: That some few have already felt how the interval of the Series of Seven…