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A lot of people who follow sports know about the Negro Leagues in baseball. Jackie Robinson played there before breaking baseball’s color barrier in the 1940s. But most people don’t know about the Black Fives. Beginning in 1904, this was the basketball league for only African-Americans. A man named Claude Johnson decided to dedicate an exhibit to the Black Fives. “There are ‘dozens and dozens’ of all-black teams that played basketball before 1950 — and that their legacy reflects the changing…

Baseball is a popular sports in different parts of the world, but when it comes to betting for baseball, one discovers a different story. It seems that betting in baseball is not as popular, and it usually takes a backseat to common sports betting like auto racing, football, tennis and basketball. The level of popularity of baseball betting may not eclipse that of football or basketball, but there’s no denying the fact that betting in this sport can also become an exciting and enriching…

and comes back fighting if they are down. Some say it will be a close game, but most say Chicago’s walking out as Champs. Will Reds bring out the unexpected? Will they prove everyone wrong? In this case, Reds are the underdog. Most of the time, many people want the underdog to win. The series for Chicago might not be so easy after all. Reds are prepared for the series and ready to bring the best they’ve got. If Reds fight like they have proven to do well in the past, Reds will come out and bring…

FLORENCE— Do you smell it? That smell. A kind of smelly smell. The smelly smell that smells... smelly. As you surely know, that smell is the legendary Samuel “Stinky” Smith, who found his way to our school and didn’t even need to compete for a place in our hearts. Some may have always wondered where this true hero came from, which is reasonable because a man like this doesn’t come very often in life. Fortunately, through working with him in recent work with the Florence Chronicle, we have…

shape, and then the person with a beating stick in hand, then someone throws a grenade as hard as they can at a person, if they hit it they live, if they miss, they die” “ Murder, high risk of injury, go ooonnnn…..” “ and if he hits it, then there are people in the outfield to try and catch it, if they catch it, they live, if they don’t, they die.” “ I LOVE IT, I'M GOING TO ADD SOME MIND CONTROL HOTDOGS AND BRAINWASH…

Joe Maddon Some people heard of the Cubs winning the World Series but didn’t know much about them, how they made it to the Word Series point, and who taught them. Joe Maddon is the whole reason the Cubs won. He is a special manager with a special talent, finding new ways.(Joe Maddon-Overview, 2016) He lets his team play freely and is not a “crackdown” type of manager. Joe Maddon created a World Series winning baseball team, applied his past knowledge to spur his team to conquer their flaws, and…

a Yale graduate, but then ended up hiring an inexperienced assistant general manager. The transition of assistant general manager is not smooth. Oakland scouts do not like Brand’s approach to scouting players. It is non-traditional and drives people crazy. Brand accepts players based on their on-base percentage rather than the many other factors he could have considered. The theme is not only baseball, but also business. Beane and Art Howe, the Athletics’ manager have disagreements.…

bleachers and Robert Penn Warren wrote the poem He Was Formidable. Both of these poems appear in the book “Hummers, Knuckles, and Slow Curves, Contemporary Baseball Poems” [University of Illinois Press; Urbana and Chicago, 1991.] an anthology. For people who thought that baseball and poetry were mutually exclusive, this is the book to change their minds. Baseball poetry, they'll goes being the ballot Casey at Bat, this volume including Eighty-four poems written by fifty-seven poets in the…

Flat Track Racing This paper is going to be on Flat Track Racing. This paper will inform you on what you need to Flat Track Race, when Flat Track Racing got started, and how it got started. The track is made up of compacted dirt, once it has been compacted water goes on to makes it slick which makes sliding around the turns easier. There are many different places to race but the most popular is Dayton because it is the biggest place to race. Things needed to race are helmet, gloves, riding…

The Role of Statistics. A game of numbers, the Moneyball effect is considered start of professional baseball statistics. Statistics play the main role in baseball. It’s made a huge change in the way baseball runs and how players are evaluated and could be rated to be drafted. Every team uses statistics and it is not an even playing field. There are high salary cap teams and there are low salary cap teams. When statistic first became a huge role in baseball because low salary cap teams…