He is only twenty-eight years old, yet he has already established himself as one of the best baseball players in the history of Major League Baseball. His name may be compared to other Yankees greats including Mickey Mantle, Joe DiMaggio, or Roger Maris. This native of Kalamazoo, Michigan is also on...
Before the Cubs were the beloved blue and red bear that adorns thousands of baseball caps throughout Illinois and the Midwest, they were known as The Chicago White Stockings Base Ball Club or "Chicago White Stockings " for short. ... This is when the organization finally became known as the beloved nickname that they still hold to this day, The Chicago Cubs, courtesy of the Chicago newspaper. ...
For 86 years fans of the Boston Red Sox have suffered through crushing defeat after crushing defeat. Heart wrenching, unbearable losses. Up until 2004 my father and even his father had never lived through a Red Sox World Series victory. Yet every year, they'd set their hopes high and think "Maybe th...
Because it doesn't come as a surprise anymore, the question is raised of whether or not MLB is genuine in its attempts to thwart performance-enhancing drug use from its beloved game. ... One might think that an MLB player doping isn't solely cheating the beloved game of baseball. ...
We all thought the ball was juiced 1. With the World Series ending last week all of baseballs many problems got pushed back into the closet once again without any resolutions. During the heated negotiations of labor dispute from this summer the problem of steroid use came to a head when two former ...
We all thought the ball was juiced 1. With the World Series ending last week all of baseballs many problems got pushed back into the closet once again without any resolutions. During the heated negotiations of labor dispute from this summer the problem of steroid use came to a head when two former ...
It was July 9th, 2011, and fortunately, I was able to witness a small part of baseball history first hand. Derek Jeter had come up to bat in the 3rd inning while the N.Y. Yankees were facing the Tampa Bay Rays at Yankee stadium. He had gotten his 2,999th hit in the first inning. The crowd, of cour...
Looking back on The Diamond in the Bronx: Yankee Stadium and the Politics of New York by Neil Sullivan I was overly impressed, and found myself heavily in agreement with Sullivan. Chronicling both the history of the New York Yankees and Yankee Stadium, the book looks to explore the connection of pu...
Society's Game Baseball, the only constant in life. Ideals and institutions may crumble, but baseball will remain. Throughout modern time, baseball has been present in America's history. Another constant in life is that people will always watch baseball. They will pack the stadiums by the t...
