Jackie attended John Muir Technical High School where he starred in football, basketball, baseball, and track. ... At college he continued to play football, basketball, baseball, and track. ... After six games the Dodgers lost in the seventh game. ... In 1969 Jackie was invited to play in a an "old timers game" at Yankee Stadium. ... Nine days after the game he died of a heart attack on October 24, 1972 in Stamford, Connecticut. ...

• Word Count: 1346
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Football players pound each other for about five months each year while playing one game per week. Basketball and baseball players play a much longer season then do football. ... Nevertheless, the professional basketball season lasts about the same amount of time as does baseball except they play eighty-two games throughout the country. ... However, not until the late 1970's did the grand old game really die. ... A beer costs five dollars and fifty cents at the game. ...

• Word Count: 1968
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

What ever happened to playing for the love of the game? ... A good example of a player who loved the game of baseball is Pete Rose. ... The game of baseball is about having fun, competing, and playing for the fans. ... That is a quarter billion dollars to play the game of baseball. ... Football, basketball, and hockey all have above-average attendance rates among those with household incomes of $40,000 or more. ...

• Word Count: 1955
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Robinson was a standout in football, baseball, basketball and track (26). ... Teammate, Carl Erskine, said "this is a white mans game- (118). ... Fans would shout racial slurs and throw objects at him during the game (123). ... In his first game he played he had four hits, including a homerun and two stolen bases (Elderkin). ... After 10-years in the major leagues he retired from the game in 1957 (James 215). ...

• Word Count: 1421
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

And because so many people get emotionally invested while watching sports and become so involved in the game, sports consequently holds a great importance to them in their lives. ... However, it is the time that the "Great Bambino" came Black Sox Scandal that he reclaimed the trust that the public had lost for the game that they loved. ... For instance, how many ways can someone report game five of the World Series or if someone rushes for a 100 yards in a game? ... Prior to that, in the public's eye, Mantle was a Yankee slugger who was considered to be a hero to anyone who ...

• Word Count: 1777
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

While attending there he won letters in football, baseball, basketball, and track. ... Even the magazine Sporting News, which was against black baseball players, acknowledged his great skill and ability in the game of baseball and awarded him with the Rookie of the Year award in 1947. ... Even though Jim is a runaway slave, both him and Huck end up forming a bond between each other, this breaks the color barrier of the book, similar to the was that Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in the game of baseball. ...

• Word Count: 1487
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Steroid use in professional sports is bad because of the after effects it has on the history of the game and the youth who will follow in years to come. ... Would we more happily pay for a Major League Baseball game in which neither team scored or pay for a game in which baseballs are flying out of the park due to performance enhanced players? ... As a young African-American male we mainly flocked to sports such as basketball and football but suddenly baseball was an attractive sport for all of us and it made many of us join baseball organizations in our area. ...

• Word Count: 1595
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography

The game in the end will be an activity, which is increasingly extreme, violent and meaningless, practiced by athletes or a class of chemical genetic mutant gladiators. ... The rules in effect of each sport determine the winner or loser of the game. ... For example, basketball banned goaltending (swatting the ball away after it has reached the highest point) when players became more athletic and tall. ...

• Word Count: 2320
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography

Multibillion dollar contracts with ABC/ESPN, CBS and now FOX have created competition between the rival networks each bringing new platforms and announcers in to make the overall presentation of the football game more appealing and entertaining. ... Today, AOL and CBS Sportsline carry NFL games on the Internet, but the experience is much like listening to the game on the radio. ... Maybe the NFL games will eventually be broadcast solely through the Internet where they can hook up their TV to their computer allowing them to choose their own camera angles, control slow motion and instant repla...

• Word Count: 2310
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In high school and at Pasadena Junior College he showed great athletic skill in track, basketball, football, and baseball. ... Tygiel tells us that in one game the appearance of Paige caused "one of the worst jams in the history of Comiskey Park" (p.232). ...

• Word Count: 1752
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography