Essays on Baseball

For a long time, it has been a foregone conclusion that sports is a legitimate means of becoming a multimillionaire and there are fewer sports that have proven this to be true than basketball where players make several millions of dollars in career earnings. However,…

“You have to be able to accept failure to get better” is a quote that LeBron James said during an interview shortly after joining the Los Angeles Lakers this past summer explaining how hard it is to play with a young core player with no…

Oprah Winfrey, Lebron James, Beyonc?, or Ellen DeGeneres… These aren’t just artists, celebrities, performers, or even individuals. They are brands. Powerful brands. Talent and luck is one thing. The compound effect of establishing a name has power. What’s in a name? Do not know. What’s…

For decades following the Civil War, Jim Crow laws terrorized the lives of African Americans, barring them from the facilities and opportunities available to whites. They were forced to drink from separate water fountains, to stay in separate hotels, and to eat in separate restaurants….

Baseball is one of the most celebrated sport activities not only in America but all over the world as history is made almost on a daily and legends are born. Lenny Dykstra is a player who has not only contributed to the game but has…

From all the options my brain collected, I chose to read and write about Jackie Robinson, who is most famously known for being the first African American to play in major league baseball. Robinson was born in 1919 and died in 1972 to a heart…

Watching a baseball game with someone is not like watching a movie. Indeed, while the dark of the theater demands silence, the ambling pace of a baseball game invites conversation, and the hard plastic bleacher seats somehow seem softer and more intimate amidst a stadium…

Have you ever wondered that in the early 1900’s black people couldn’t play in the MLB so there was a league designated for black people? But that was broken when Jackie Robinson became the first black MLB player. Jackie Robinson was born on January the…

The American organization Major League Baseball (MLB), focuses on the importance of the value of a player to a team. Traditionally, the MLB assessed players using professional talent scouts. The assessment was based on future potential and considered the batting average and earned run average…

MLB: Industry Analysis Professional baseball players, such as Jackie Robinson, Babe Ruth, Barry Bonds, etc. all made a name for the Major Baseball League (MLB). The MLB has progressed and evolved so much since the first baseball team to ever form in the US, The…

American sports have been a central focus for entertainment since they became sensationalized during the 1920s after the conception of the radio. This medium of information exchange helped market such sporting events on a national scale. Since then, consumers have fallen in love with sports…

Derek Jeter is a name that resounds to any American sports lover including those who are not fans of the New York Yankees, the franchise he played for throughout his career. After about two decades in the Major League Baseball, Jeter brought his career to…

Money Ball Film presents Brad Pitt who is at his best as a baseball manager pursuing a less conventional route to success. Subsequently, the baseball film expresses the powers of the nation’s mind and body is a merit separate from the glory of being the…