St. Louis Blues

crown. The St. Louis Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago Cubs all had a chance to win the division down the stretch. However, after the Cardinals won the division by two games (100-62), the Pirates (98-64) and Cubs (97-65) secured both spots in the National League Wild Card Game, where the two division foes met for a chance to face St. Louis in the NLDS. 

St. Louis Cardinals

The Cardinals have controlled the NL Central in recent years. Although all three years have seen tight races, St.…

The glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams is a play that tells part of a man’s life named Tom Wingfield it takes place in St. Louis. Tom works at a shoe warehouse to support his mother, Amanda, and older sister, Laura. Tom and Laura’s father left years ago and he is only slightly mentioned in the play. Tom is the man of the house since his father left he is the only one with a job and the family one hundred percent relies on him for the income and to pay any bill. He wants to leave and go travel…

a way that had never been done before (Westphal baseball). These people could all talk about the game as if they had been there themselves, feeling as if they were there while listening “to these fabulous sounds from the Old Sportsman’s park in St. Louis, or sometimes from… Shibe Park or Wrigley Field in the afternoons, or the Polo Grounds” (Morris Baseball). Baseball became so popular on the radio that it became “part of the background music of America” (McDowell Baseball). Baseball games…

who was more interested in money than his children and his truant lead to complex relationship with his son. Williams often described his childhood as pleasurable and joyful. But his carefree and boyish childhood was taken when his family moved to St. Louis Missouri which prompted William to write. His parents unstable marriage did nothing to sooth his emotional distress. Williams sister Rose suffered from sever anxiety attacks and was diagnosed with schizophrenia. She spent the remainder of her…

Jane Zuroweste Ms. Davis College Prep English G2 18 April 2017 The 1985 World Series It was an abnormally warm October day, October twenty-sixth, 1985 to be exact. Two Missouri teams are practicing for World Series Game Six, the Saint Louis Cardinals and the Kansas City Royals. It was the second time in history that two Missouri teams faced each other in the World Series. The Cardinals were up in the series three-two, they just had to win that night’s game and they would become the 1985 World…

recognition, published it on her own. She was well organized and determined in this endeavor. Her records indicate that she sent two hundred and fifty copies to a distributor and numerous copies to libraries and editors of magazines and newspapers in St. Louis, New Orleans, Boston, and New York.” (Larrabee, Denise) At Fault takes place at a Louisiana plantation, in the novel Chopin wrote about love, obstacles, freedom and the reuniting the country. The characters in the novel, like many of the…

Denton "Cy" Young lived from 1867-1955 and played professional baseball for five different teams throughout his career. He is arguably the best pitcher ever to play the game of baseball, being the only pitcher ever to win 500 games (Baseball Reference). In 1937, Young was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame (Baseball Almanac). Cy Young's tombstone effectively uses both ethos and logos through statistics to convey the message of his credibility in the game of baseball as one of the top…

Gianlorenzo Bernini’s David is a historical piece of marble art that shows great emotion and engages the viewers in action. Bernini’s David could possibly be mistaken as a major league pitcher throwing a 95 mile an hour fastball. He gathers all his strength for each one of his pitches and puts all his effort into it. But this specific life size piece of marble sculpture has a different meaning to it. Some may not know exactly, but the emotion in Davids face tells a whole different story. The one…

“42” is a film that came out on April 12, 2013 written and directed by Brian Helgeland and produced by Thomas Tull. “42” takes place in 1940s when Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American baseball player in the Major League by signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers. The manager at the time for the Brooklyn Dodgers which was Branch Rickey decides it is time to bring in a black baseball player into the Major Leagues.he acknowledges that there is talent in the black leagues and wants to find…

Giannetti defines ideology as, “a body of ideas reflecting the social needs and aspirations of an individual, group, class, or culture” (448). A film’s purpose is often reflected through the ideology it possesses and in this case, the ideology expresses the treatment of minorities in baseball culture. A League of their Own, The Perfect Game, and 42 all contain an explicit sense of ideology with a thematic orientation towards teaching people about treatment of minorities in baseball culture. A…