Yankee

to play professional baseball. I always wanted to play baseball since I was about 5. I used to like the cubs. Then, when I turned about 9-11 years old don’t know when exactly, but I became a Yankee fan. When I was in the kindergarten, I used to watch the cubs play and learn so much. I am actually the only Yankee fan in R.O.W.V.A elementary school, not sure about high school. I get asked why I like the Yankees, well one small reason is my grandpa Wes was a Yankees fan so I thought to carry the…

agricultural resources and force Confederates to be second class citizens. This fear with addition to the polarizing stigma of Yankees’ being businessmen lead to the Confederacy rhetoric identifying them as barbarians with no signs of humanness. Fear of a Yankee invasion was explicitly known as citizen would write accounts of losing all valuables due to destructions of war. In eighteen sixty-four the Union took a more aggressive approach to the war as they brought the hard hand of war to the…

Matsui named World Series MVP in 2009. After the season, he changed teams where he was then traded to several teams, however, the New York Yankees held Matsui’s retirement ceremony with one-day contract so he could put an end to his playing days as a Yankee in…

professional baseball for 16 years and amazingly, all 16 years were as part of the New York Yankees organization. Bernie stopped playing baseball in 2006, but did not have a retirement ceremony until 9 years after he stopped playing. The ceremony was held in Yankee Stadium which is located in The Bronx, New York and after all the formalities Bernie spoke for…

The Action at Pine Bluff was fought on October 25, 1863, when Brigadier General John Sappington Marmaduke’s Confederate cavalry division attacked the small Union garrison under Colonel Powell Clayton that had occupied Pine Bluff (Jefferson County) following the capture of Little Rock (Pulaski County) on September 10, 1863. The purpose was to return the strategic initiative to the Confederacy. Marmaduke led a force of some 2,000 Rebels out of Princeton (Dallas County) on October 24 to assault…

It was game 3 of the 1932 World Series. George “Babe” Ruth was up to bat. With two strikes and one hit left, what he would do next would change baseball history. Baseball is a big part of today’s society. Choosing Babe was an obvious choice because of the impact he’s had on baseball. Babe showed me and the rest of the world you can do anything no matter where you come from. On February 6, 1895, in baltimore Maryland, George Hermen Ruth (who would go on to become Babe Ruth later in his…

old a person is, but with independence, self-empowerment and determination that anything is achievable. The poem starts out with the Yankee teachers coming from up north to teach the slaves how to read. This poem speaks volume because knowledge is power and it is the key to success. Lines 25 -28 from the poem reads: “Well the Northern folks kept sending/ The Yankee teachers down/ And…

win the Super Bowl. The Newark Panthers head coach, Kyle Shanahan made each practice harder than the last one so, by the last practice every player was tired and ready to beat the New York Giants their biggest rivals at the Yankee Stadium. The Newark Panthers arrived at the Yankee Stadium for a game they knew would be tough. The captains were Luke Williams and Jerry Rice. Luke Williams is a rookie quarterback out of the University of Clemson. Jerry Rice is on his sixth…

Schmeling. Thrown off of his game in part by the bad publicity but also because of Baer's wild, brawling style and frequent fouls (including backhand punches and rabbit punches), Schmeling was thrashed after ten rounds before nearly 60,000 onlookers at Yankee Stadium. While the German took a battering against the ropes in the tenth, the referee leapt in to stop the fight. The fight, combined with a follow-up loss to contender Steve Hamas early the next year, left many wondering if Schmeling was…

"I'm benching myself, Joe-- for the good of the team," Gehrig told Joe McCarthy, his manager. Lou Gehrig never played baseball again. On July 4, 1939, between the doubleheader at Yankee Stadium, nearly 62,000 fans sat in the stands waiting for Gehrig to address the crowd according to New York Daily News. It was known as "Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day", but something that is named "appreciation day" usually should be on a happy occasion. But not in this situation. A few weeks prior to this day,…