...have had the passion to want to play the game for five years. Ever since I was twelve. And since I love the game and this topic really stood out to me. I am going to talk about baseball. From who Invented baseball. To When did MLB come about. And how many teams there are in baseball. And lastly a person in MLB like Bryce Harper. Abner Doubleday, born June 26, 1819. And died January 26, 1893. He was a United States Army officer and Union general for most of the American civil war. But also had a very important role in the battle of Gettysburg. But let's talk about the main reason that we are really here. And it is that Abner Doubleday was one of the first people that had invented baseball. He invented the game we know and love today back in Cooperstown, New york. During the summer of 1839. He made the idea of the bases you had to run and in the early years of baseball he made it to where you could throw the ball at the runner to get him out. It was pretty extreme before the rules that they have today. But enough about him....
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...History of Professional Baseball in Texas Baseball is an immensely popular American game, played between two teams of nine players each. The basic implements used in the game are a leather-covered ball, wooden bats for hitting the ball, and gloves for catching it. It is played at its highest level in the United States and two Canadian cities, where 26 teams make up the American and National Leagues (each with two divisions, East and West). Combined, these leagues are called major-league (professional) baseball. Most players who reach the major leagues have worked their way up through Little League, scholastic, college, and minor-league ball. In the early 1800s Americans began playing baseball on informal teams, using local rules. By the 1860s, the sport, unrivaled in popularity, was being described as America's “national pastime”. Alexander Joy Cartwright of New York invented the modern baseball field in 1845. Alexander Cartwright and the members of his New York Knickerbocker Base Ball Club devised the first rules and regulations for the modern game of baseball. Baseball was based on the English game of rounders. Rounders becomes popular in the United States in the early 19th century, where the game was called "townball", "base", or "baseball". Cartwright formalized the modern rules of baseball. The first recorded baseball game in 1846 when Alexander Cartwright's Knickerbockers lost to the New York Baseball Club. [1] The popularity of baseball grew in Texas as Civil War...
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...Black Sox Scandal “Say it ain’t so Joe” a kid said to Joe Jackson as he walked out of the room. “Yes kid, I’m afraid it is.” This was captured by Chicago Herald and Examiner as Joe Jackson was leaving court. (Mitchell, Fred). This occurred between Joe Jackson and a kid after the sandal of the series being thrown away had been released and the players had to go to court to figure out the truth and what would happen after that. The kid in this quoted conversation didn’t want to believe the scandal was true, but Joe Jackson confirmed to him, that indeed it was true. The Black Sox Scandal was the most controversial event in baseball history due to the team being bribed to lose the games, players threw the World Series away and eight of the Black...
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...Boston Red Sox swept the AL West champion Angels in the Division Series, winning Game 3 by a score of 8-6. Then advanced to a rematch in the 2004 American League Championship Series against their bitter rivals: the New York Yankees. Boston Red Sox became history makers, becoming the first team in Major League Baseball history to recover from a 3-0 deficit. Boston Red Sox won the 2004 World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals, a team that had posted the best record in the major leagues and that had defeated them in the past. The final out of the game was made on Cardinals shortstop Edgar Rentería at 11:40 pm, in the midst of a lunar eclipse. Boston Red Sox won baseball's World Championship for the first time in 86 years. Ramirez was named MVP of the Series. Boston Red Sox held a parade or in Boston mayor Thomas Menino words, they put up a "rolling rally" on Saturday, October 30, 2004. More than 3 million members of "Red Sox Nation" filled the streets of Boston to cheer as the team rode Duck Tours. Boston Red Sox became the Sports...
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...Book Review: Playing for Keeps: A History of Early Baseball, 20th Anniversary Edition The development of sports from their early stages, their metamorphosis and evolution to their current form and status is one of the most interesting areas of study. Unfortunately, most writers on such subjects only concentrate on the sport itself and players without exploring other ulterior factors that influence the development of a sport such as the emotional, economic and social environment. The book, Playing for Keeps: A History of Early Baseball by Warren Goldstein is one of the few that have managed to avoid this perennial mistake. This paper is a review of the book, its content, author, objectives and ideas. The book traces the roots and development of baseball. It explains how it began with the culture of organized baseball in 1850's and later graduated from an amateur sport to a professional one a few decades later, thereafter developing into a business. The book not only traces the sport’s linear development, explaining the chronological events that marked its evolution, but also the constant and recurrent elements that have characterized it through different generations, the cyclical history. The writer shows how the game was an amateur club-based sport when it began around 1857. At the time, the main players were clerks, artisans and shopkeepers; there was nothing professional about the sport. Around twenty years later, the face of baseball had changed with businessmen taking...
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...Pete Rose has to be in the Hall of Fame Pete Rose is an iconic figure for Cincinnati and Reds Baseball. He has over 4,000 hits and over 3,000 games played, both the most by any player ever. Looking at that he should be in the Hall of Fame right? Well no, he is not. He bet on baseball during his playing career and was forever banned from baseball. However, the Hall of Fame is not full of saints and even other Hall of Famers like Hank Aaron went out and said they would like to see him get in. Therefore, he should be in the Hall of Fame. Since the Hall of Fame is a museum to honor the great players in baseball history, Pete Rose should be in the Hall of Fame (HOF). Dan Epstein wrote the article “Time Served: Why Pete Rose Should Be in the Hall of Fame” to explain the Hall of Fame is not full of saints. As Epstein states “Roberto Clemente's humanitarian credentials wouldn't have meant squat to the voters if he'd hit like Tito Fuentes. Ultimately, the Hall Of Fame is (and should be) a museum, not a monument to morality”(Epstein). Yes he...
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...Daniel Ochefu Baseball, Justice and the American Dream Final Paper Due: 5/1/2015 I ‘Like’ Baseball Before taking this course baseball was one of my least favorite things to do in any way simply because I did not know about the sport and the impact it has on many people’s lives to respect the time that the players spend preparing to perform. I was always critical of the amount of work that was put in physically for baseball compared to other sports like basketball, football, hockey and others. I always thought it was not that much because there are almost no physical collisions in games and that was all I really needed to know after I was told that on average games are three plus hours. From everything I have learnt about baseball in this course, there is a respect that I now have for it that I definitely did not have for it before. Being America’s pastime, baseball has been the one constant in America because of its deep history that it promotes and the pride that the fans exhibit. Even during unfortunate events that shake the whole country, baseball finds a way to bring the country together. The most recent one that stood out to me being how the Boston Red Sox brought together a whole city after the terrible Boston Marathon Bombings of 2013 by winning the World Series and using that to help strengthen a city that had been hurt badly by a terrible event. The World Series celebration is normally extravagant and well televised but this one brought all Americans together...
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...Role of Sports in Popular Culture Paper: Athletes as Role Models Sports for quite some time have become an intriguing part of history as well as people’s heritage. This paper will illustrate how athletes can serve as role models in a tremendous way. Great athletes are viewed all over the place such as magazine articles, television commercials, and shows. There is a greater need for the more positive role models who engage in fair play and sportsmanship. Their influence on our youth is paramount because children do mock or emulate their favorite stars. Children tend to want to have all of the riches, glamorous life, and fame that are associated. Athletes generally provide hope for even some of the younger up and coming future athletes all across the world. History Ever since the beginning of time in the sports world, dating back to 800 B. C., the Olympians were required to uphold the homage of Zeus. At this time in history, games were considered a religious ritual. In early Roman days, there were chariot races and gladiator games including athletes that represented different states. The need for competition between competitors was enthused all over the world. Adults as well as children idealized the monumental courage and determination of great athletes. Although history tells that role models were considered not only heroes in their own right, but also major contributors. People who emulate and adore sports personalities question whether or not if it is worth the debate....
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...A court will likely find that Baseball Illustrated did not infringe upon Mike Madsen’s right of publicity because, not only is the image used of him not readily identifiable under the statute, but Baseball Illustrated’s primary purpose concerns sports coverage in the Houston area, and thus constitutes the appropriate newsworthiness affirmative defense under the statute. The Texas Right of Publicity Statute provides that “any person who knowingly uses another’s…photograph, or likeness in any manner on or in products, merchandise, goods or services, without such person’s consent…shall be liable for any damages sustained by the person or persons injured thereof.” Tex. Rev. Civ. Stat. Ann. §62 (West 2016). The statute identifies three necessary requirements for a person’s right of...
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...ranking in program history. Records through Sunday 1. JW North (11-5) – Tony Bullard (.407, 6 2B, 2 HR) crushing the ball for the Huskies 2. Murrieta Mesa (15-4) – Surging Rams have big wins over Vista Murrieta, Great Oak 3. Woodcrest Christian (15-4) – Senior Adam Zellers (5-0, 0.25 ERA) is utterly dominating 4. Vista Murrieta (13-5) – Unsung Mason Campbell (.333 BA, .905 OPS) is Broncos' leading hitter 5. Santiago (10-7) – Sophomore Tyler Frazier (3-1, 0.81 ERA) emerging as a top pitcher 6. Yucaipa (11-6) – T-Birds have quality wins over Corona, La Verne Bonita among others 7. Corona (14-5) – Panthers have huge two-game series against Santiago this week 8. Carter (11-4) – Junior shortstop Marcos Castanon (.429 BA, 1.191 OPS) is taking game to next level 9. Temescal Canyon (9-5) – Meat of Sunbelt League play begins this week for Titans 10. Citrus Hill (12-2) – Hawks have won 7 of 8 to take control of Mt. Pass League Others: Cajon (13-5), Kaiser (12-2), Linfield Christian (12-5), Paloma Valley (8-6), Patriot (12-5) More from Blog: HSGT Blog SOFTBALL: Inland Top 10 softball rankings, April 4 BASEBALL: Inland HS Top 10 rankings, April 4 BASEBALL: Kile Tournament openers postponed BASEBALL: Darryl Kile Memorial Tournament preview and schedule BASEBALL: Top 10 rankings, March 28 BASEBALL: Boras Classic schedule and preview BASEBALL: Tahquitz Tournament schedule and preview BASEBALL: County Clash schedules ...
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...Despite his multiple injuries, Chipper Jones has repeatedly taken leadership of the Atlanta Braves. Chipper Jones was born on April 24, 1972 in Deland, Florida to Lynne and Larry Sr. Jones. He grew up in Pierson Florida, which is known for their ferns. He grew up playing baseball for the local minor league. When he was in ninth grade, Chipper’s parents made the decision to send him away to a boarding school in attempts to challenge him academically and athletically. In 1990, Bobby Cox and the Atlanta Braves chose Chipper Jones of the first pick of the Amatuere Draft (Jeff K). “In his first five major league seasons, Chipper Jones made three All-Star teams”. At the beginning of 2000 he was the MVP pick from baseball writers. By the end of the season, he was a favorite of the fans as well. (Chippers Bounce Back)...
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...Babe Ruth played in the 1920’s era. The 1920’s has been dubbed the Golden Age of American Sports and also the Age of the Spectator. The United States had a strong economy for most of the decade, so citizens spent their salaries on many activities: going to the movies, listening to jazz music, and watching sporting events. The 1920’s became a time for people to enjoy life with their leisure time. The 1920’s became a time for sports to take center stage. Major improvements in roads made it possible for spectators to travel to athletic events in distant areas. This is the first time in American history that large numbers of citizens began to pay money to watch other people compete in athletic contests. Newer and bigger stadiums were being built to accommodate for the large amount of spectators attending sporting events. The newly invented radio made it much easier for fans to keep up with their favorite teams; newspapers also started to include sports columns (Sumner para.1). Athletes, such as Babe Ruth, Benny Leonard, and Harold Osborn, were at the forefront of making sports popular in the United States. American citizens of the 1920’s wanted to have fun in their free time; by doing so, the 1920’s became famously known for prosperity and success in...
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...Josh Booth Professor Pearson West Georgia Technical College 05/02/2015 History of Sports/Games Using A Ball Sports or games have played a large part in the history of the world in regards to culture and entertainment and in some cases even sacrificial beliefs. Games using spherical shaped balls have been recorded as early as 1,400 B.c. in MesoAmerica and have evolved into what are now the World’s most prominent sports such as soccer or fùtbol. Games have evolved into sport, which has taken modern society by storm and created one of the largest economical entertainment industries in the world today. The first recorded history of games played with round objects was known as Ōllamaliztli, or simply as, “The Ball Game.” This game had ritualistic associations and has been dated back to 1,400 B.C. Many cultures grew to involve this game into it’s culture and ritualistic lives but the great civilization of the Mayans was the prominent exerciser. “As best as is now known from archaeological and iconographical sources as well as the structure of the sport courts, this was a very physically taxing and important part of Mayan culture.” (Blümchen). Although the exact rules of the game are unknown to this day, historians have made certain hypothesis as too how it was played. The game was played in large courts found all over Central America and as far north as Arizona. Diagonally arched balls surrounded the court with rings at the top of each wall. “Evidence suggests that...
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...When he was going to college at UCLA, he didn’t just play baseball he also played football,basketball and track. Jackie Robinson did a lot when it comes to overcoming barriers. He broke one of the biggest barriers in history which was the color barrier in the MLB and that helped bring about the end of segregation when it came to african americans playing sports in the same leagues as white people. This was a big thing considering that back then nobody thought that african americans would ever be treated as equals.I think that Jackie Robinson’s barrier and my barrier are not similar at all. For example, Jackie Robinson’s barrier was physical and mine is emotional. Another thing is that he was being held back by other people, when it comes to me no one holds me back but myself. Also,my barrier can affect and hurt the people around me when his cannot and my barrier can be self-destructive...
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...Playing For Keeps: A History of Early Baseball by Warren Goldstein is a historical novel about the economic and sociological advancements of the game of baseball. Goldstein used sources like biographies, magazines, and various newspapers. He used these sources most likely because they were readily available at the time and provided him with many hands-on experiences and a direct source of information from that time period. Goldstein portrayed throughout the book that baseball went from a club-based fraternity sport based on pure enjoyment to a business that was profit driven as well as a boyish sport to a manly one. He states that baseball has “two very different kinds of histories: one linear, chronological, and cumulative, the other cyclical, generational, and repetitive” (Goldstein 2). The origin of the sport began in the nineteenth century. Baseball was created by taking three different sports – town ball, rounders, and cricket – and blending some of the rules of those games into what was then called “base ball.” Before the Civil War, baseball was played out of pure enjoyment. The first baseball club, the Knickerbockers, played themselves at first but eventually started to play other clubs in 1846. The members had occupations varying from firefighters, policemen, barkeeps, and more. Playing other teams created competition, which in turn brought up the idea of every team having their own specific uniform, captains, and an umpire at every game to call the shots. Soon enough...
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