Strike series

It was a nice summer day when my father took me to my first Yankees game. “If I saved a quarter a day for life, do you think I could have that one day?” He replied “Put your heart into I, and you can achieve anything.” I was referring to a player’s car that drove by that was glowing as it passed by. I knew it was a player’s car, because he drove to a designated parking lot labeled “Players Garage.” It was beautiful out and there was something eccentric in the air. I’ve never seen the Yankees in…

fact that this was going to be it, next season was finally here. Finishing the first half of the season with a 6-15 record has brought all the noise to a screeching halt. I want to believe that the remainder of the season will be a reflection of the series finale in Pittsburg Sunday, the Cubs won when they absolutely had too. Even after the recent struggles, the Cubs still head into the break seven games…

Minor League, Minor Pay In an age where professional athletes make more than accomplished doctors and surgeons, it is surprising to find that minor league players make below minimum wage. Minor league baseball players should be paid more than what they are being paid today because it takes away from their time with family and provides with no opportunity alternative source of income. Minor league baseball players deserve to be paid more because they do not have time to have other jobs.…

had a .378 batting average, and 171 RBI. In 1921, the Yankees played in the World Series against the New York Giants. Ruth hurt his elbow and was told by doctors not to play. He ignored them and came off the bench as a designated hitter. Even though he had the best season of his career, the Yankees would lose to the Giants. In 1922, The Yankees would play the New York Giants again and would lose the World Series. Even though the Yankees had one of the best teams in the MLB, they could not get…

Nathaniel Grow wrote an article in Fangraphs (http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-impending-battle-over-the-future-of-televised-baseball/) discussing a court case that could change the future of televised baseball and thus have a significant impact on MASN and the Orioles. As he explains in his article, the plaintiffs in this case — Garber v. Office of the Commissioner of Baseball —, claim that MLB shouldn’t be allowed to assign its teams exclusive local broadcast territories and that every team…

Sox has always been one of the most iconic professional baseball teams, even winning the inaugural 1903 World Series (then as the Boston Americans). This fame would only grow in 1914 when they came across a strong left-handed pitcher with an even stronger bat known as George Herman “Babe” Ruth (Britannica 2014). With Ruth, the Red Sox won 515 games and lost 359. They also won 3 World Series in the 6 years in which Ruth played with them (mlb.com). Babe Ruth and the Boston Red Sox were well on…

We sat on the hot metal of the bleachers outside of the baseball field. The rainy days of Spring were replaced with the sweltering heat of the Summer, and hearing the clink of a baseball hit a bat in the Summer had become a tradition for almost five years. My older brother Dakota had spent those years being bombarded by sweat, mud, and the encouragement of his family, friends, and coaches when the team needed to hit a ball or when he wanted to show off how much better he had gotten since the…

The situation I will be sharing of where the power and prestige theory was presented is my summer baseball coaching job. This past summer I hired as an assistant coach for a 17 year old Long Island baseball team. The organization that the team was affiliated with was an organization that I have been involved with since the very beginning of my baseball career. Besides myself there was also another college baseball player that attended and played baseball at a local division III university,…

Three strikes laws, also known as habitual offender laws, were enacted after a series of violent crimes occurred where defendants had multiple convictions but had attained parole despite those convictions. One such crime, according to pollyklaas.org (n.d.), was that of 12-year-old Polly Klaas who was kidnapped, molested, and murdered by known sex offender Richard Allen Davis who was out on parole at the time of this occurrence. Polly’s father, Marc, pushed for a change in the criminal laws that…

“The Winnipeg General Strike” began in 1919 which was less than thirty years after the Criminal Code was enacted. This was one of the most influential social movements in Canada. Their intention was to earn rights for Canadian workers through strikes. Canada virtually had no labor laws at this time so workers fought to gain their rights. I believe this social movement represented the need for changes to be made to the Criminal Code as this movement was an illegal six week strike and was…