One Giant Leap

However, for baseball fans, especially ones that wait all day just to sit down and watch the game like Scott Hoffmann, the home run record is a huge deal. Holding the home run record means that an individual MLB players has hit the most home runs in a single season. McGwire wasn’t the only baseball…

The Lifelong Journey To World Championships Albert Bluford “Rube” Walker was born May 16th, 1926 in Lenoir into a poor family. His father would bring home string every day from his job and wrap it around a golf ball until it was the size of a baseball so the children would have baseballs to play with. Despite not having a legitimate, so to speak, baseball to play with Walker showed potential in his childhood. Walker grew up a hardworking individual working on his family’s farm in order to…

Photo Walk-offs used to mean only home runs. But when Joe Panik won a game for the Giants last October, it was called a “walk-off double.” Credit Monica M. Davey/European Pressphoto Agency More than a decade ago, some were already sick of the term. In 2000, Sports Illustrated wrote, “Like crab grass invading someone’s lawn, walk-off has…

Baseball is in my blood. Like the light hair and eyes I inherited from my father, and the hot Italian temper I got from my mother, through my veins a love of baseball runs. Until recently, where my passion for the sport came from I was not sure. Sometime, I thought it began long ago, on summer trips to Fenway Park, when my family would drive in our oversized Chevy to Boston, park in a garage near Government Center, and take the T out to the ballpark. As I grew older and more accustomed to our…

playing in different leagues. Many blacks wanted to play in Major League Baseball but didn’t have the opportunity because of discrimination. Jackie’s thought about it was, “I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label” ("Jackie Robinson - The Official Site."). When Robinson was introduced in…

In the novel, Mexican Whiteboy, by Matt de la Peña, a baseball obsessed half-Mexican and half-white teenage boy, Danny, visits his father’s family in National City, California. In the beginning, Danny, dressed in a Billabong shirt and Vans, meets all of his cousin’s friends. His cousin, Sofia, and all of her friends are joking around while Danny makes some observations. He feels that he is not Mexican enough to be in National City, but he also feels he isn’t white enough to be at the private…

Individuality is quality or character of a particular person or thing that distinguishes them from others of the same kind, especially when strongly marked. In the "Babe Bows Out", Nat Fin shows that whether you're weak or can barely move that you can still accomplish what you want. Fin uses focus, contrast, line. Focus, the focus in this picture is on the main person in this case the great bambino the best player in baseball in the 1940. The background with the crowd is out of focus making the…

baseball has buckled down at compensating for lost time over the previous decade. The shortage of African-American players today is striking, with a truly low 7.7 percent filling the 25-man lists, as indicated by a later USA Today study. In any case, one of Selig's most uplifting choices as the commissioner has been to resign the No. 42 association wide and, basically, make Jackie Robinson Day a kind of national occasion inside baseball. in 2007 Ken Griffey Jr. created the possibility of a…

been in the mix when it comes to professional sports. Many athletes go to extreme levels to maximize their performance. The fans go to a sporting event to see an amazing home run, an incredible football tackle or the fastest sprinter in the world. One of the main reasons why PEDs are prohibited in professional sports is due to the fact that it's going to create an unfair advantage over the opponent. In my opinion, I think most athletes will use PEDs if they can get away with it. This is also…

There are other countries where military soldiers have no voting rights either, such as Colombia and Indonesia. Number Three: The Jurassic Park Connection The amber stone with a mosquito inside shown on Jurassic Park is actually one of the pieces on display at Puerto Plata’s Amber Museum (if you are wondering; no, it doesn’t hold any dinosaur DNA!) The logo for the movie was also heavily inspired by that of the museum, which looks almost exactly the same. Number Two: The Bread…