Best Baseball Player: Chick King

white league, Jackie had a very impressive career. Some awards and accolades that he won

Georgia. She had also went to a baseball camp there. Other teams showed great interest in her, the Memphis Chicks offered to trade their two outfielders for her, but were declined, because they considered her too valuable.

Buddy Benson was born on November 9, 1933, in Wright City, Oklahoma, to Jesse Benson and Louise Pate Benson. He was one of the nation’s most actively recruited football players after he graduated from high school at De Queen (Sevier County). He signed in 1952 with University of Oklahoma under Coach Bud Wilkinson, whose Sooners team had won the national championship in 1950 (and which, between 1953 and 1957, won forty-seven consecutive games). Benson missed his adopted home state, however, and transferred after one

“I never had a job. I always played baseball.”(Official). That was said by the legendary Negro pitcher Leroy “Satchel” Paige. The person I chose for my project is Satchel Paige. I chose this figure because I wanted learn what impact he had on our world and because I've always been interested in legendary baseball players. My paper will present the early life of Satchel, his outstanding Negro baseball career, and how he changed the game of baseball.

How herd he had to work throughout his whole life to be as good and talented as he is. “Before you can achieve it you must believe in yourself” is a quote from Mike Trout. He is only 25 years old and he has already won an MVP, Major League Baseball, two time All-Star Game MVP, three time Silver Slugger Award winner, and a Hank Aaron Award winner, and he is in the race for another league MVP this year. Mike Trout is the arguably the MLB’s best player currently. He is the franchise player for the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.

Becoming a famous baseball player wasn’t easy though. Jackie robinson had to be humiliated in front of large crowds. People threatened to hurt him and even kill him. Daisy though, had it easier. People loved watching her and the women play. The only downside to the women playing is that they were expected to play like men, but they to act like american women.

Throughout the 1940’s, our view on American’s baseball has changed substantially. Segregation has been a part of baseball for several decades. Jackie Robinson, an Africa American bore near Cairo, Georgia on January 31, 1919, started a new revolution for American baseball. Jackie Robinson was the first African American to play major league baseball in the 1940’s (York). Brooklyn Dodgers general manager, Branch Rickey drafted Jackie on April 15, 1947. This was the beginning of Jackie embarking on his new revolution for American baseball (- Baseball, the Color Line, and Jackie Robinson).

Babe was an all American basketball player, two-time Olympic track and field, gold medalist and a gold champion. She won the women championship in running, javelin, throwing, swimming, high dive, high jump, hurdling, baseball, boxing, race shooting, horseback and billiards. Babe stated, "I never played football." Babe proved to be the first girl to be a stud athlete. Babe went by a quote every time she entered into an event, which was, " I don't see any point in playing the game if you don't win." Babe was doing things no other women was doing. She pitched an inning for the Brooklyn Dodgers and a game for the St. Louis Cardinals. She struck out famous Joe Diamyo. Babe could make up the entire team.

The book Cobb by Al Stump is a look into the late 19th century and early into the 20th through the eyes of Ty Cobb. The historical biography of Tyrus Raymond Cobb follows his path from classroom screwaraound and fighter to the greatest hitter to ever grace the major leagues. Ty Cobb. Growing up in Royston, GA, Cobb was the oldest of 3 siblings and the son of a schoolteacher, principal, newspaper publisher, state senator, and county school commissioner who wanted him to do nothing but study. Cobb didn’t listen, he practiced his way to making the bigs, shortly before leaving his dad told him {italicize} don’t return a failure. There was no looking back for the future Hall of Famer though.

rofessional baseball player Babe Ruth was born George Herman Ruth Jr. on February 6, 1895, in Baltimore, Maryland. Ruth was raised in a poor waterfront neighborhood in Baltimore, where his parents, Kate Schamberger-Ruth and George Herman Ruth Sr., owned a tavern. Ruth was one of eight children born to the couple, and one of only two that survived infancy.

George Herman Ruth, better known as Babe Ruth, is an American baseball hero due to his successes that have allowed him to become a household name even after his passing. His great legacy lives on, but for those not alive during his reign over baseball, it is sometimes hard to grasp the Babe’s true life story, which is where film comes into play. In the several films about Babe Ruth, many differentiating perspectives about his life are introduced. In The Babe Ruth Story (1948) and The Babe (1992), we are shown two very different versions of the ‘Great Bambino’. With the help of Ardolino’s analysis of the deification and deconstruction of Ruth in Reel Baseball, it is easy to see the similarities and differences between the two Hollywood Babes. Ardolino states that, “In fact, these movies are dialectically related: the first is an attempt to sacralize Ruth’s checkered life, and the latter is an attempt to replace the hagiography with a Dickensian psychodrama of a bumbling Bacchus who belches, farts, indulges his appetites, is haunted by his past, explodes irrationally when he is called ‘incorrigible’ and never gains any measure of self-control” (115-16). Ardolino’s chapter thoroughly discussed the portrayals of Babe Ruth as a character, which brings to light the similarities and differences portrayed in both Hollywood films. After screening the Hollywood films, we move to screen the documentary about Ruth, a blatant deification, which treats his life story much differently.

Since the abolition of slavery in the USA in 1883 and through the first half of the 20th Century, African Americans had been in a constant struggle to try and gain an equal footing in society. Like many aspects of American life, black sportsmen were segregated, and no African American had played professional baseball since 1884. For this reason, the integration of Jackie Robinson to the Brooklyn Dodgers as the first African American to play Major League baseball in the modern era had a grand impact on the entire country. From the moment that Dodgers owner, Branch Rickey decided that Robinson would break the colour lone, the history of sport and the history of African Americans would not be the same again. The importance of his integration and the effect it had on civil rights can be looked at in many different ways. It had great effect on the African American community, instilling pride and belief once again in the American Dream for many who had once thought it impossible. It also had significant importance for civil rights groups, and brought about a figure who would fight his peoples quest for equal rights until the day he died. It was a significant risk taken by both Rickey and Robinson, professionally and personally. But it was a risk that both in the short term for African American sport, and in the long run for African American civil rights, was ultimately well worth taking.

The world of baseball is a different place because of one brave man who fought for equality. Jack Roosevelt Robinson is known as a hero to many people because of his bravery and courage to fight for what's right. Because of his courage to fight for equal rights, the challenges he faced, and his legacy and lasting impact on the world of baseball, Jackie Robinson is a very heroic figure.

A baseball umpire, a former city manager, a sponsor of sports teams for all ages and a youth baseball coach have been inducted into the Rittman Recreation Center’s Sports & Leisure Hall of Fame.

The story of Jackie Robinson has become one of America's most iconic and inspiring stories. Since 1947, American history has portrayed Jackie Robinson as a hero, and he has been idolized as a role model to the African American baseball community. It is an unarguable fact that he was the first to tear down the color barriers within professional baseball. The topic of Robinson’s role in integration has long been a point of discussion amongst baseball historians. Researchers have accumulated thousands of accredited documents and interviews with friends and team mates such as short stop, Pee Wee Reese, and team owner, Branch Rickey. However, few journalists have asked why Robinson was selected and what was Branch