Hank Greenberg: The Most Courageous Player Who Affected The Game Of Baseball

I, Babe Ruth, had a major contribution to society, mainly the game of baseball. As I was becoming more recognized as more of a hitter than a pitcher while the “dead-ball era” was happening. I hit many home runs and broke records. My fans loved it; they paid attention to my full-swing hitting. With the style of hitting I had, it contributed to the revolution of baseball and now the “live-ball era.”

Babe started as a pitcher for the Orioles and then he moved on to the Boston Braves. Although he was a decent pitcher for those two teams, his real fame came when he made the transition to right field on the New York Yankees. He finished his career with numerous records, awards, and honors such as being part of the first class inducted into the baseball hall of fame. Shortly after the end of his career, he fell ill with throat cancer likely caused by his lifelong habit of chewing tobacco. Babe did not let this stop him though. He still visited orphanages, hospitals, and other charity events even on his worst days. Biography.com reproted, “Known throughout his life as a generous man, he gave much of his time in his last years to charitable events instead. On June 13, 1948, he made one last appearance at Yankee Stadium to celebrate the building's 25th anniversary. Sick with cancer, Ruth had become a shadow of his former, gregarious self”. Knowing that his time was running out, Ruth still pushed through being a source of excitement for young children in their times of struggle. He gave the majority of his major league earnings to orphanages, charitable foundations, and even started his own foundations to help orphans. These were some of his last actions because Babe’s biography states, “On August 16, 1948, Babe Ruth died, leaving much of his estate to the Babe Ruth Foundation for underprivileged children”.

The game of baseball evolved immensely during the 1900’s. There were new rules and rule changes, new teams in new states, and then there was Jackie Robinson. Jackie Robinson was a true legend from the day he was born in 1919. Baseball had it all in the first half of the 1900’s, fans filled the stadiums day after day, even during the war times. There was a big-name player on almost every team, children and adults admired these professional baseball players. The only thing professional baseball didn’t have during these times were African American players. Learning about the hardships that he had to overcome as a young boy, and the accomplishments he made from his college days at UCLA, to becoming the first African American professional baseball player, Jackie made it known that he was an American hero.

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

When the topic of baseball comes up in a conversation, what do you think of? The field, a bat, the ball, or amazing plays, crucial games, and game winning performances. What about American history? Does World War II come to mind; most likely not. According to an article called “Food for Thought: Baseball and American History,” John P. Rossi quotes Jacques Barzun saying, “Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.” Negro League Baseball can be used to shed light on the historical experience of African American’s in the United States.

(“ Wartime Baseball - Not That Bad") .Many people thought players were not good enough to play but players who made it to the big leagues during the war was talented enough to keep their place on the team after formal big leaguers returned. All the emphasis of baseball during war was negative because of how people perceived it. Everyone had an opportunity to play, one arms player, alcoholics, young, old, deaf players. They were less talented players who were brought up to fill out the rosters when the regulars were volunteered or were drafted. Many of the fills in players were faded out quickly when he ruler returned. When choking over our wartime players' list, we found that 45 played on one or more pennant winners, ten became major league managers, and 34 were selected to one or more All- Stars teams (“Wartime Baseball- Not That Bad"). Although many players were not as good as the regular many had help baseball out. Like base stealing was revived by George Case, George Sternness, and veteran Wally Moses; less dependence on the homerun. Eddie Stinky set a NL record with 148 walks in 1945. George Kill was a wartime player and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1983 for his batting average. Even though they were some talented players, they were some very less talented player. Danny Gabriella became very well known for being struck in the head by a baseball he was supposed to catch. Even know baseball

Thesis: Major League Baseball was founded in 1869 and up until April 15, 1947 an African American had never played in the major leagues before and that man was named Jackie Robinson. On that day he did not open the door for other African American athletes. He just maybe turned the knob a little bit which also lead to a new attitude people had towards African Americans no one had ever seen before.

In the biography Jackie Robinson and the American Dilemma by John R. M. Wilson, it tells the story of racial injustice done after world war II and explains how Jackie Robinson was pioneer of better race relations in the United States. The obstacles Jackie Robinson overcame were amazing, he had the responsibility to convert the institutions, customs, and attitudes that had defined race relations in the United States. Seldom has history ever placed so much of a strain on one person. I am addressing the importance of Jackie Robinson’s trials and triumphs to American racial dynamics in the post war period to show how Robinson was a prominent figure in the civil rights movement and brought baseball fans together regardless of race.

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.

“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.

Babe Ruth grew up in Baltimore Maryland. He went to St. Mary’s Catholic school in Annapolis, Maryland. Babe got in lots of trouble at St. Mary’s. Brother Matthias and the teachers were the only people who said that Babe should play baseball. If it wasn’t for Brother Matthias and the teachers’, Babe would not be playing the

Hank Aaron is commemorated as a professional baseball player with a record of 755 home runs in his 23 year career. He was conceived as Henry Louis Aaron on the 5th of February in 1934 the same time as the Great Depression in the town of Mobile, Alabama. His dad worked in a shipyard, his name was Herbert Aaron which was married to Hanks mother Estella Aaron. The neighborhood Hank was raised in was a segregated neighborhood. The house he and his siblings lived in didn’t have electricity or plumbing. His family hassled to raise and support them. Hank was one of his seven siblings. From an early age Hank knew he wanted to play professional baseball. He competed in the semipro baseball league for the Mobile Black Bears team and in 1952 he signed

was george herman ruth, and he was born in baltimore, maryland. babe ruth pitched for the

Clemente:The passion and grace of baseball's last hero, by David Maraniss is a biography about Roberto Clemente, one of the best baseball players of all time. Roberto’s childhood was not easy, both of his parents had to work long hours to provide for his brothers and sisters. From high school Roberto knew that he wanted to be a professional baseball player. He would spend most of the day at the field with his friends playing baseball, or throwing a rubber ball against the walls of his house. David Maraniss used three writing strategies that really show how Roberto Clemente became a baseball legend. Conflict, setting and imagery show the central idea of the biography.

Roberto Clemente was a professional baseball player for the Pittsburgh Pirates. He was a career .317 hitter, had exactly 3,000 hits, won an MVP award, a dozen gold gloves, 4 batting titles, and got selected to the all-star game a dozen times, according to multiple sources ( http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/8795995/roberto-clemente-role-model-all-mlb