The 1988 romantic baseball comedy "Bull Durham" contains many of the oldest cliches typical of baseball films since the beginning of cinema. "Bull Durham" tells the tale of a young, upstart player, looking to supplant an older and more seasoned player on a minor league team call...

Replay in Baseball? 05/26/2004 How would game change if there were replays in baseball? How would people react to this change? Throughout time it seems as though baseball has been the original sport that shaped America. America was still a very young country when baseball became ...

How did the civil rights movement effect Jackie Robinson?Jackie Robinson may not have been the best baseball player in the history of baseball but he was surly the most important. Without Jackie courage we would not have other great baseball players like: Ken Griffey Jr., Barry Bonds, Hank Aaron, or...

The movie "Major League" features some loveable, laughable characters that form the motley band of baseball players on the mythical Cleveland Indians. It may not have the class of "Field of Dreams," the charm of "A League of Their Own," the historical realism of "E...

Low-ballinAs Americans we strive to succeed and be prosperous. A lot of times we, as Americans, measure success by dollars and sense. The more we make the more we measure get a sense of our worth in this world. Still what if someone said that you couldn't make as much as you possibly can in life. ...

Jose Canseco's Juiced is even more relevant today than it was when it was published in 2005. Of course, its authorship is somewhat problematic. It is written by a self-admitted user, but even if a reader only believes part of Canseco's memoir it confirms the findings of the more recent Mit...

Jackie Robinson, actually called Jack Roosevelt Robinson, was born on in Cairo, Georgia in 1919 to a family of sharecroppers. His mother, Mallie Robinson, single- handedly raised Jackie and her four other children. They were the black family on their block, and the prejudice they encountered only s...

I. In Mike Ilitch was born on July 20th, 1929 in Detroit Michigan he was the son of Macedonian immigrants. His father Sotir worked for the Chrysler Corporation as a tool and die maker. A tool and die maker is a manufacturer who makes fixtures, dies, molds, cutting tools. Ilitch graduated from Cool...

Book ReportTyler McGuireU.S. History 1302.001OwensApril 1, 2001Book ReportAl StumpCobb a Biography, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1996Tyrus R. Cobb was a man of great mystery. From his humble farm beginnings to his dying days in solitude, he was a man that could not be fully understood. Even throu...

Someone once said, "There are those who make things happen, those whowatch things happen, and those who wonder what happened." I consider myself oneof those rare people who really knows how to "make things happen." I have gonefrom being a follower to being a leader, from being someone who was shy ...