Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Baseball means different things to different people, whether an individual has been watching baseball for the first time to an individual who has watched it their whole life. The same questions were asked to six different individuals and six different answers were given, however all had the same enthusiasm whether it was face-to-face or virtually. However; the enthusiasm with face-to-face individuals was thoroughly more satisfying over virtual communication. Each individual was asked to answer a…

1994 No World Series is held due to a Player’s Strike. 1994 strike most embarrassing moment in MLB history. ... It was the 1994 Major League Baseball strike. Twenty years ago Tuesday, baseball came to a screeching halt and didn't return for 232 days. The strike canceled the rest of the 1994 season, and for the first time since 1904, even the World Series 1997 To honor Jackie Robinson, his number “42” is retired from all major and minor league teams. April 15, 1997: The magnificent night at New…

Enterprise report RIPON - The Calaveras High School baseball season came to an abrupt end in an out bracket game of the CIF Sac-Joaquin Section Division V championships. On Monday afternoon, No. 10 Calaveras fell to No. 7 Ripon 11-1 in a five inning game. It was the third inning that hurt Calaveras. Ripon took advantage of a number of Calaveras errors and scored seven times to take an 8-0 lead. Calaveras committed six errors in the loss. Sophomore Logan Lamborn drove in Calaveras’ only run…

I have learned so much about Babe Ruth throughout my life. My grandfather has been a huge Babe Ruth fan ever since he watched him play as a kid. He would tell me stories about how he would go and watch Babe Ruth play in Yankees stadium. He told me that one time while he was at a game, Ruth asked the hotdog vender to bring him a hotdog to the dugout. My grandfather has thoroughly convinced me through stories and statistics that Babe Ruth is the greatest baseball player ever. Both Sports…

Barry Bonds (Noun) holds the single-season Homerun record. A-Rod has over 3,000 hits and is a 14-time All Star. David Ortiz is a 3-time world series champ. Jose Canseco is the first player to hit the 40-40 mark. (Simple Sentence) 40 home runs and 40 stolen bases in (prepositional) a single season. Ivan Rodriguez has the most home runs as a catcher. All of these MLB players have an asterisk next to their name on the lineup card. The asterisk does not mean that they are an all star; it means that…

The Book of Ruth is a refreshing story after the Book of Judges, as it ends with the 25th verse of 21st chapter: ”In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes”. But, the book of Ruth shows God’s perfect plan of redemption. The story has been set in a dark time of Israel’s history. The main characters are ‘Elimelech’ meaning ‘My God is King’, ‘Naomi’ which means ‘Pleasant’, ‘Mahlon’ which means ‘Sick’, ‘Unhealthy’. ‘Chilion’ means ‘puny’, ‘pining’,…

Life As An All-Star Yogi Berra was one of the best baseball Hall of Fame catchers of all time. I am going to tell you how great of a husband, father, and baseball player he really was during his 90 years of living in St. Louis Missouri with his wife, Carmen Berra and their three children, Dale, Tim, and Larry. Yogi Berra was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1925. One of the quotes that he came up with was, “It ain’t over till it’s over.” The sayings and quotes that Yogi Berra came up with are…

The speaker, Lou Gehrig, uses 3 rhetorical devices, irony, hyperbole, and metaphor to convey his message that even though he’s in a bad spot right now, he has had and still will have a good life. Lou starts off his speech with, “Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.” Lou stated that he has had a bad break but still considered himself the luckiest man on earth, which is situational irony.…

who is a possible candidate for canonization. She fulfills most of the requirements: (1) She’s dead. (2) She demonstrated heroic virtue. (3) Cults have been formed around her work. (4) Her invention is considered by many to be a miracle. The woman: Ruth Graves Wakefield. Her contribution to the world: the chocolate chip cookie. One day in the 1930s, Mrs. Wakefield, an owner of the Toll House Inn, in Whitman, Mass., 23 miles south of Boston, was busy baking in her kitchen. Depending on which of…

Misty Copeland was born on September 10, 1982 in Kansas City, Missouri. Misty Copeland endured a tumultuous home life to dance, eventually she began to study under California ballet instructor Cindy Bradley. Misty joined the studio company of American Ballet Theatre in 2000, becoming a soloist several years later an starring in an array of productions such as The Nutcracker and Firebird. An icon whose star shines beyond the world of classical dance, in late June 2015 Misty became the first…