Trans-Am Series

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…

what it means to be a good athlete as well as a good person, and supporting your team through better or worse. The glove serves as a constant reminder of the influence baseball and the Yankees has and will continue to have on my life. To this day, I am subject to the glove’s impact on my life every time I lace up my cleats, and I look forward to continuing the qualities it has instilled in me at the collegiate…

Yankees vs Royals Game Last summer I went to a Yankees vs Royals baseball game at kauffman stadium. Half of my family and I are huge Yankees fans, but the other have of them are Royals fans. So we all decided to pack up and head to the big game. Half of us had our Yankees hats, shirts, and jerseys on. The other half with their Royals clothes on. Throughout the years there's been many arguments on which team is better, when we got into the cars and started heading to the game the bets began to…

Taking risk is one of the hardest forms of leadership. Having the ability to go away from the status quo and try a method completely unheard of is scary. However, someone has to step up to the plate and take their best swing. Luckily for Billy Beane and his Oakland Athletics, he hit the jackpot when he took a chance which demonstrates leadership. Moneyball tells the story of the 2002 Oakland Athletics and how they changed the game of baseball forever. The story begins with the Athletics being…