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Major League Baseball is easily one of the biggest sports that the use of statistics is very important. Many statistics such as, batting average, homeruns, runs batted in, and many more are used by every manager and every critic on a daily basis. The top four most highly sought after awards include the following: Most Valuable Player in each of the American League and National League, The Cy Young Award or in better terms, the most valuable pitcher in each of the American League and National…

“He was a big league ballplayer over ten years and 1,382 games for the Brooklyn Dodgers.”(Allen 13). Jackie Robinson an African American, former second lieutenant in the United States Army trying to make into an all white major league. Robinson breaks a color barrier for colored baseball players. Not only did he break a barrier he earned respect for the way he went about doing so. Robinson never burst into rage when hurtful words were said, he kept his cool and handled it like a true role model…

In 1947, one man changed sports history forever. Jack Roosevelt Robinson made his major league debut, breaking a baseball color barrier that had been set since 1876. Robinson set ways for future generations through his determination and courage. Robinson believed in equality, decency, morality, injustice, and ending a wrong with a right (Allen). Jackie Robinson changed American society through his dedication for civil rights. Robinson was born on January 31, 1919 in Cairo, Georgia (Swaine). He…

In the “People of the State of California v. Orenthal James Simpson” former professional football player, known as O.J. Simpson, was tried on two counts of murder for the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman in a criminal case at the Los Angeles County Superior Court in California. Simpson's celebrity status made this case a media frenzy and the TV exposure made celebrities of many of the figures involved in the trial. The 134-day trial was a televised, highly…

Progress columnist Alan Gibson died last week at his home in Bent Tree of natural causes [his obituary appears on page 16A]. Gibson had been contributing his “The Essential Bad Attitude” column to the Progress since April 2008. The author of books and plays won a first place award in the largest weekly newspaper category for humor writing in the Georgia Press Association contest for the year 2013. The Bent Tree resident has never missed a weekly deadline, still working in longhand, vigorously…

The New York Yankees on Sunday have reportedly agreed to hire the services of the seven-time All-Star and free-agent Matt Holliday by signing him with a one-year deal having a value of USD 13 million to play for the upcoming new season of the Major League Baseball (MLB). Basing from the report of the The Score, Yankees general manager Brian Cashman was said to have agreed to give the 2007 National League batting champion the deal as the American baseball executive made his second major move of…

Race the movie is directed and produced by Stephen Hopkins who was a passenger on the Mayflower in 1620, one of forty­one signatories of the Mayflower Compact, and an assistant to the governor of Plymouth Colony through 1636. The three top star of the movie is Jesse Owens played by Stephan James, Larry Snyder played by Jason Sudeikis, and Dave Albritton played by Eli Goree. This movie was released on February 2016. I watched the movie in the Boca Movie Theater called Cinemark Palace 20, I…

Are the Falcons overrated? Entering the 2015 season, the Falcons fans had lofty expectancies for the team to go on to the Super Bowl. However, those expectancies were impractical, considering some of the major unsorted complications. When they had only 6 regular season matches left, Atlanta was at 6-4, a record entirely inconsistent with very naïve expectancies. A precise examination of the Falcons’ record last season reveals how overrated they were. The team’s susceptibilities were really…

“Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth,” The beloved baseball star Lou Gehrig once said. Lou Gehrig was an amazing baseball player. He was known for his hard work and iron will. Lou Gehrig was the Iron Horse of the New York Yankees, he became one of the best in baseball at a young age, and sadly, he retired young from a deadly disease, that later killed him. Lou Gehrig was born June 19, 1903 in New York, at an early age He helped his mom run errands while she was…

In order to complete the project assignment, a movie called Moneyball is under review, a dramatic sports biography released in 2011. The movie begins by introducing organizational problems attributed to assembling a successful baseball team, fixated on overcoming serious budget deficiencies when compared to other teams. Former professional baseball player and Oakland A’s General Manager (GM) Billy Beane, takes assembling and developing a World Series winning worthy team personally upon himself…