The Clique series

odriguez Alex Rodriguez grew up playing the game of baseball at age 4.He played his dad one on one his dad beat him but it inspired him to do better.Years passed for Alex Rodriguez, in high-school he was a gifted football player but on the baseball field he was a bigger star. In his Junior year, he hit .477 batting average and stole 42 bases in just 35 games.He led his High-School baseball team to the State Championship.Before the 1993 draft Alex was inspired to go to Miami…

Baseball is one of the best sports to play and watch. It has changed a lot since it has been invented. Now there is Major League Baseball also known as the mlb. There has been a lot of teams in the mlb and a lot have been around for a long time. The Globe Life Park in Arlington is the home to the mlb team The Texas Rangers. It wasn’t always Globe Life Park though, It’s original name was The Ballpark in Arlington from 1994 until April 2004. It changed its name to Ameriquest Field in Arlington…

Major League Baseball or MLB should not recieve anymore the benefits of the antitrust exemption. The antritust laws are there to support and protect the consumer , fans int this case, from monopoly and greedy corporations/busissnes.Antitrust laws were designed to protect the consumer and it is up to Congress to remove their exemption from antitrust laws.Therefore,I dont agree with the MLB recieving the antitrust exemption because Baseball, it is sport that cross and goes beyond state lines, it…

This paper intends to describe an interview conducted with an eight year old about sports. A remarkable quote from this young man was “ I only struck out twice last season and I didn’t get out after that at all”. The sports that Cannon Crooks plays, his favorite sport, his favorite player, his favorite position, and future aspirations and more shall be covered in this paper. The interview was conducted over the phone with an eight-year-old boy named Cannon Crooks. Cannon Crooks is a third grader…

Neil Hughes, an essentially ordinary child from a Liverpool suburb, has a high-spirited way of life at seven. He attends a public school with fellow participant Peter, and shows normal behavior for a child of his age. At fourteen, Neil is attending a comprehensive school and has similar aspirations as his seven-year-old self, but, like an adult would, puts much thought into his speaking. At age twenty-one, Neil plummets downward and is squatting in London. He drops out of Aberdeen University…

incident in particular the Black Sox Scandal. “Later evidence revealed that eight Chicago players had taken money from gamblers to dump the 1919 World Series. Seven of the eight alleged fixers admitted to a grand jury they had received sums varying from $5,000-$10,000—figures that exceeded the annual salaries of most of the accused—to throw the series to Cincinnati (Rader 144).” If the league would have just paid the players more the league would not have had to deal with players gambling on…

Chapter 1: Prologue Act 1: Holy Shit, I Won the lottery! "Hey dude, it looks like you've won the lottery." "Really? How much the prize?" "Hmm...About 10 Billion bucks." "Holy shit. I need to collect this shit." I immediately grabbed the lottery ticket from the store clerk and ran to the nearby bank. My brain is already filled with things I should buy. Ferrari's. Yachts. Diamonds. Diamond Yachts. Shit, that'll be awesome. I shout "I won the fucking lottery!" inside the bank hysterically.…

example for other African American athletes. Robinson fought for what was right and broke a color barrier to play professional baseball. Robinson, the first African American major league baseball player, not only aided the Dodgers in winning the world series, but he was also a positive influence for black athletes in the advancement of the Civil Rights Movement. Jackie Robinson's early life he lived with his mother and his siblings. He was born January 31, 1919, in Georgia. In 1920 he moved…

Hank Aaron By: Landon Hale 3/6 /17 “I never wanted them to forget Babe Ruth. I just wanted them to remember Hank Aaron,” Hank announced as he received his Hall of Fame award. Leading the Milwaukee Braves to their first World Series Championship in 1957 Hank Aaron was their leading hitter with a .322 batting average. Hank Aaron did not want to replace all the great baseball players like Babe Ruth and Moses Fleetwood Walker also known as Jackie Robinson. He just wanted…

The 1920’s was known as the Golden Age of American sports. Bigger and better stadiums were built. “The most famous athlete in the United States in the 1920s was baseball star George Herman “Babe” Ruth, the right fielder for the New York Yankees”(Sumner, J). The 1920’s influenced the way sports are today. The way the 1920s influenced was by having game changing players like Babe Ruth, by becoming more organized and professional, and lastly is by becoming more popular. Babe Ruth was the most…