Billy Martin Character Analysis

Jackie Robinson was an African-American who played for a “Negro League” for a team call the Kansas City Monarchs. Their team colors being white with thin red stripes going vertically down the uniform. But a manager from the MLB’s jaw dropped to the floor when he saw how great of a player Jackie was, and decided to do something that nobody ever thought would happen. “I had never seen a ball player,” stated the Dodgers manager. “quite like Jackie Robinson.” He drafted Jackie Robinson in to the MLB for a team called the Brooklyn Dodgers, but just because something good happens, doesn’t mean that there will a few obstacles along the way.

"Derek Jeter, a professional ballplayer for the Yankees…" are the exact words Derek Jeter, himself, used in his eighth-grade yearbook (Jeter xvi). For as long as he could remember, Jeter has longed to be a New York Yankee. Fifteen years after predicting he would be a professional ballplayer for the Yankees, Derek Jeter is now more than a Yankee. Jeter isn't only a Yankee; he is a family guy and a World Champion. His career started when he was five years old, and everything has evolved from there. Sports fans know what life for Derek Jeter is now, but what was life like before he became a world champion, superstar, and captain of the New York Yankees.

Jules Tygiel certainly spent a lot of time writing about the importance of Jackie Robinson and the influence he had on and off the baseball diamond in his novel, Baseball’s Great Experiment. Before reading this novel, I considered myself to be

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

The Dodgers were playing the Philadelphia Phillies and Robinson was up at bat. Ben Chapman, the manager of the Phillies begun to direct racial slurs towards him as his verbal cues were filled with dislike, and hate. He labelled Robinson because of his skin color and told him that baseball was a white man’s game and will continue to be like that in the coming years. Chapman’s overall goal was to provoke an outburst from Robinson, but fortunately, Robinson was able to stay level headed and block out the negativity. An individual that continuously receives verbal abuse, and is able to control his/her temper is an outstandingly, strong individual,

In 1839 Americas soon to be favorite past time was invented right here in New York, Baseball. Baseball whether you like the game or not, has weaved itself deeply into our culture and isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. There are countless movies, articles, songs, playing cards, bobble heads, merchandise and books all made about baseball. The players are often idolized by children and adults alike. Baseball in our country was and still is a huge topic of discussion, whose batting average is higher, which team is better, is someone cheating. Troy Maxson like many American’s knows a lot about baseball like how striking out is bad and homeruns are how you win but there are things about baseball that Troy doesn’t know. The article, Walking Around the Fences: Troy Maxson and the Ideology of “Going Down Swinging”, written by David Letzler. Letzler Delves into the ideology of batting and walks in baseball in explanation of the main character Troy Maxson of August Willison’s play Fences, and his thought process of going down swinging and Troy’s thoughts on some of the major league players of that time.

The book Stealing Home: The Story of Jackie Robinson, by Barry Denenberg is a moving and piercing account of a man who was determined to play baseball

Throughout history, sports have become a regular family interest, and were very well known in the year of the “Roaring Twenties” (R, A, 2010). The weekends were always filled with baseball fans in stadiums, waiting to cheer on their favorite team or player. One of histories greatest athletes fulfilled a dream during this era and would forever be remembered as baseball hero.

News reports and more asked why Martin would continue the series after the death of his mother France St. Louis. Even though the St. Louis family had been grieving since learning about the death he knew that this is the course his mother would have wanted him to take. By taking that action of staying in the series little do he know he motivated other major league players, that get looked down on for putting their family’s before there sports (JOB). A lot of the time people that have a name as in if they play a sports on a show or make big bucks like six, seven figures, get looked upon as super people

But no matter how much effort he gave the only thing the coach would do is say how how bad Billy was. It seemed like he would be pleased. Billy did not understand why Coach was not impressed with him. Billy was giving all he could give and he knew that he was a top player. However it still did not please coach. Billy then noticed that coach was only giving him grief because he wanted Billy to get better and play, over his full potential, push himself over the limit, that’s what the coach wanted to see from Billy. Or at least that is what he thought... Billy knew that the coach obviously wanted him to get better, but the yelling was certainly more than just pushing Billy. Every night, Billy would always be haunted by that day, the day Billy Bull missed the game winning shot. No matter if it was a week past the game or a million years past the game, it seemed the coach would never forget the moment when Billy Bull missed the game winning shot. But neither would Billy, unless he just happened to show that he was capable of making a game winning shot. Game by game went by and

Billy is a thirteen year old boy, so according to Erikson, he is an adolescent, going through Identity versus Role Confusion (website). To begin with, an adolescent is leaving the stage of complete dependency of parents, and entering a world of wanting to do things on their own. In the process of wanting to do things on their own, an adolescent is also trying to find out who they are in this world. The adolescent learns their identity through exploration of themselves and their boundaries (website). Billy chooses to find his identity by appearing cooler than he really is.

After the remarkable season was over, Billy Beane was offer a job with the Boston Redsox and would have been the highest paid general manager in the history of baseball but dined the offer to stay with the Oakland

While constantly aware of Miss Drew’s situation, Billy can’t escape the realization of his position’s possible transiency and the fact that his life depends on his usefulness in the gang: “all I had to remember was how small of a mistake was sufficient to change my fortune, maybe even without knowing it. I was an habitual accomplice to murder. I could be arrested, tried, and sentenced, to death”(123). From this, Billy is impressed with one of the fundamental rules that accompanies inclusion in gang life—absolute loyalty to the gang’s interests. Billy observes the consequences of breaking this rule of loyalty when he hops onto the boat and into the scene of Bo’s sinking figure, and later, when Schulz’s personal life becomes complicated with a pending courtcase. The gang loyally relocates to the rural small town of Onondaga to help ensure the boss avoids jailtime. After painstakingly building an amiable reputation in the town for the Boss, Schultz’s temperament leads to “the president” Julie Martin’s murder in the hotel. The entire gang dutifully cleans the room and removes the body with cover up concluding with and unprepared Billy being punched in the face. After the fact, Billy comes to see the necessity of his subsequent broken nose yet is internally insulted and cannot shake the urge to “get revenge” (159). This affront to his own ego caused a shift

As Billy mourns his loss, he spirals into suicidal behavior forcing him to lose his

Billy later traded out all the Atlantics all-stars that everyone thought were good players so the coach would have to play Billy’s picks. With the team Billy created, the Athletics won twenty games in a row and made major league baseball history. Billy was later offered a job with the Boston Red Sox. The Red Sox offered him 1.5 million, which would have made him the highest paid general manager in Major League Baseball, but he turned it down to stay with the Athletics. b) a personal statement of opinion on the film as a whole