New York Yankees

October 4th, 1955 the Brooklyn dodgers claim their first World Championships beating the New York Yankees by four games to three. Jackie Robinson has broken the color barrier in major league baseball. In Stamford, Connecticut, on October 23rd, 1972 Jackie Robinson died of a heart attack at his home. The funeral was held at Cypress Hills Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York, When Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier, there were good and bad thoughts and opinions about him being…

and some its most eminent figures have been athletes who paved the way for the integration they not only hoped to enact in sports, but in society. Hence, sports have been greatly afflicted by the Civil Rights Movement, leading to the emergence of new figures who precipitated change in a once segregated nation, and one of the many influential sports legends that laid the first stone in the changes enacted during this movement, whom I deeply admire, was Jackie Robinson, whose actions later fueled…

not matter at all. As long as I got to throw, hit, and catch the ball, I was happy. Like all little kids, I just wanted to get to feel the thrill of getting a hit and running around all of the bases to make it home. At six years old not only was I new to the sport of softball, but also to the girls that were signed up for the team. Prior to living in Brasher Falls and playing softball in North Lawrence, my family lived in Bombay. I have always been very talkative, sociable, and bold, so making…

Baseball in the 1930s When the Great Depression hit, it affected the money American people had. This really affected baseball. Ticket sales were the main money source for owners of teams and with less people coming to the games, they had to find new ways to get people to come. There was many changes to the sport in the ‘30s. The 1930s was an important time for baseball. Even with the Depression, the Golden Age of Baseball continued (Banks). With the impact of the Depression,…

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…

The Boston Red Sox began the process of saying goodbye to one of the most iconic Massachusetts’s player of all time at his final regular season game. 19 years after making his Major League Baseball debut, David Ortiz’s time as a MLB player is coming down to its final days. Since the Red Sox clinched the American League East, there is still time to see one of the best offensive player play out his magic during the 2016 postseason. Prior to Sunday’s game, the Red Sox honored Ortiz with an…

Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born on January 31, 1919 in Cairo, Georgia. The youngest of five other siblings, Robinson was raised in poverty by a single mom. He attended John Muir High School and Pasadena Junior College, where he was an extraordinary athlete and played four sports; football, basketball, track, and baseball. He was named the Most Valuable Player in baseball in 1938. Jackie then took his talents to UCLA, where he got accepted there on 4 sports scholarships. His older brother,…

niece who loves coloring on any paper she sees. Although she ruined my poster, she also saved it. What I mean by that is, as I began my new one I realized that my poster before didn't have the teams separated in their respected leagues. I put the American League East in the left column. The teams included in this were the Toronto Blue Jays, the New York Yankees, the Tampa Bay Rays, the Baltimore Orioles, and the Boston Red Sox's. In the middle was the American League West, my favorite league,…

Moneyball, based on Michael Lewis’ 2003 book, details the struggle of the Oakland Athletics, a major baseball team. The Oakland A’s overcome some seemingly impossible obstacles with the help of their general manager, Billy Beane (Brad Pitt), by applying a new innovative statistical analysis, known as sabermetrics. Sabermetrics is the empirical analysis of baseball, or the use of statistical analysis to question the traditional measures of baseball (Birnbaum). The underlying theme of this movie…

completely ready instead of being rushed into creation. To expand, currently there is not many food options near Olympic Stadium. With the extra 3 years, this would allow our team to secure more sponsors, pull in new restaurants to the area, and promote the idea of being the face of the brand new organization to prospective free agents. The extra years would also allow the team to polish their business model, and market the area…