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- 91: There Is No Escape
- ... About Popular Culture." Mcluhan talks about the concepts of Narcicism and the "Global Village." Both Jenkin's and McLuhan's ideas can be focused on a particular thing, such as Baseball. That can be further broken down and analyzed at the team level. The Los Angeles Dodgers have most recently been the center of attention due to the top media coverage ... item was passed down from generation to generation of O'Malleys, eventhough the item was quite massive. Throughout the years, however, the Dodgers were much a part of popular culture. Baseball was known as "America's Favorite Past-time," and still is. The tradition that the O'Malley family had with the Dodgers lasted until 1998, when a big corporation, the ... to win. Most recently, Kevin Brown, one of the league's top pitchers was signed to a 105 million dollar contract for 7 years. This is the biggest contract in baseball history. This and other aquisitions was supposed to lead the Dodgers to excellence this year. Unfortunately for Dodgers fans, this did not happen. The team is 20 games out ...
- 92: Charles Shultz
- ... you along with a brief description of each. First off, of course, is Charlie Brown. He wins your heart with his losing ways. It always rains on his parade, his baseball game, and his life. He s an stong willed boy who is afraid of arguments. Although he is concerned with the true meaning of life, his friends sometimes call him ... zag trim, head down, hands in pockets, headed for Lucy s psychiatric booth. He is considerate, friendly and polite and we love him knowing that he ll never win a baseball game, or the heart of the the little red-haired girl, kick the football Lucy is holding or fly a kite successfully. His friends call him wishy-washy, but his ... he s with, Woodstock is an accident waiting to happen. Being a bird and tiny, he gets a little insecure around Thanksgiving and big moving objects. He s the only baseball player who gets an automatic walk if the ball rolls over him. Woodstock only talks a kind of birdspeak, and find an alphabet make up entirely of exclamation points. ...
- 93: Jackie Robinson
- ... of California at Los Angeles. At UCLA he showed a great deal of athletic ability. He was the first student-athlete to win varsity letters in four sports-football, basketball, baseball and track. In 1941 he left college to join the Army. He became a second lieutenant in his journey through the Army. It was a segregated army then. He received an honorable discharge in 1944 after he was acquitted from a court-martial. Robinson began his professional baseball career in 1945. He played for the Kansas City Monarchs, one of the leading teams in the Negro Leagues. Later in the year he signed with the general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers. He was sent down to the minors in 1946 but called up to the Dodgers in 1947. He became the first black to play major league baseball in the 20th century. During the season he led the National league for stolen bases, 29. During the season he was spit on when sliding into a base, had ...
- 94: Sports Salaries
- ... are too high. Current sports salaries are reaching astronomical figures. Players are signing 50 million-dollar contracts and up just because they happen to be pretty good at hitting a baseball. Just the other day Kevin Brown signed a contract worth over 100 million! Now pro sports are fun to watch and follow, but college games entertain just as well and ... a prime example of money ruining what looked to be a fine year. The owners are locking out the players until they can settle on a bunch of points. The baseball strike a few years back obviously hurt baseball, and this lockout might hurt basketball also. John Donovan from CNN/SI summed it up perfectly, "You have greedy owners and you have greedy players, all of them fighting ...
- 95: The Natural 3
- ... is a country boy, innocent of the temptations of the urban jungle that is already taking over American life in the period between the world wars. His ability as a baseball player is as innate as his essential goodness. Like a king over a country, he is born with the power to rule over the baseball field. Yet his father warns him, immediately prior to his early death (By, rather than within, a large tree) that he can't rely solely on his gift alone, or he will fail. Only a couple chapters into the book this seems to have come true, as Harriet Bird, lover of veteran baseball star the Whammer, shoots Roy down with a silver bullet. The evening before Harriet injures Roy; she asks him, in a restaurant car, whether he has read Homer. The ...
- 96: A Classic Hero
- ... an ordinary man, living an ordinary life, in an ordinary town. Conversely, he was given the extraordinary supernatural ability to revive a number of celebrities from both the world of baseball and literature who had been dead for many years. Kinsella related to common people, but possessed powers that are not only uncommon, but ultimately inhuman. Although not a fool, Ray ... of the heart. After hearing voices proclaiming, "If you build it, they will come," Ray risked the economic and emotional stability of the family he loved dearly to build a baseball field. At first, Ray Kinsella was highly skeptical, but eventually he realized the significance of his obscure calling. Upon the completion of the baseball field, "Shoeless Joe Jackson", the baseball player who had been his father's hero before he passed away, suddenly appeared in the field to talk with Ray and to ...
- 97: Mantle vs. Mays
- Mantle vs. Mays This may be one of the most debated issues in baseball history; who is the better player? Before start trying to decide this, I think it would be appropriate to define the terms on which the two will be compared. They ... with 18; runs batted in, with 40; runs, with 42; and strikeouts, with 54. He also holds the Yankee’s record for most games played, and was elected to the baseball Hall of Fame in 1974. So with the papers being full of headlines made by Mantle, one must wonder what it would take to compete with such an awesome career ... stolen bases(2). Unlike Mantle, Mays’ defense was outstanding. He earned 12 Gold Gloves for his defense in center field. He also made one of the most amazing catches in baseball. It was an over the shoulder catch right at the wall, against the Indians in game one of the 1954 World Series(3). He filled the papers with headlines ...
- 98: Chaim Potok And The Problem Of Assimilation For The American
- ... about learning to take different positions. It is about the importance of interaction with our problems" (greglor). Reuven and Danny initially become good friends because of an accident in a baseball game. The baseball games were advocated primarily by the English teachers: To the rabbis who taught in the Jewish parochial schools, baseball was an evil waste of time, a spawn of the potentially assimilationist English portion of the yeshiva day. But to the students of most of the parochial schools, an ...
- 99: The Life and Career of Babe Ruth
- The Life and Career of Babe Ruth Babe Ruth, an American professional baseball player, is one of the most phenomenally gifted and popular players in the history of baseball. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland on February 6, 1895 with the name George Herman Ruth. He had many names. His names were Game's Greatest Hero, Babe, (his most ... incorrigible so he was sent to an orphanage. Babe was educated at Saint Mary's Industrial School. He drank in the orphanage with his friends. In 1913, Babe was playing baseball with kids older than he was. He began his career in 1914 as a left-handed pitcher for Baltimore's team of the International League. Later, in the same ...
- 100: Canada- Facts And Figures
- ... from secondary school, some 9% had bachelor's degrees, and about 6% had advanced degrees. Sports Canada's most popular sports include swimming, ice hockey, cross-country and alpine skiing, baseball, tennis, basketball and golf. Ice hockey and lacrosse are Canada's national sports. Main Natural Resources The principal natural resources are natural gas, oil, gold, coal, copper, iron ore, nickel ... sports. But ask young Canadians to list their favourite sports activities and a much broader picture emerges. Those aged 13 to 24 cite swimming, downhill and cross-country skiing, soccer, baseball, tennis and basketball. Canadians view sports as an integral part of a well-rounded, healthy life. Sports on Ice and Snow More than 450,000 youngsters participate in organized hockey ... is one of the most popular sports for athletes with a disability. The Canadian Women's Team is the reigning World and Paralympic champion. In terms of spectator appeal, professional baseball and football rank with hockey at the top of the list. The annual Grey Cup game is traditionally one of the most watched sports events in Canada. Major-league ...
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