Red Sox Research Paper

The Sox had immediate success with players like Cy Young, Jimmy Collins, Tris Speaker, Smokey Joe Wood, and Babe Ruth throughout its early years. Boston won the first World Series in 1903 followed by championships in 1912, 1915, 1916, and 1918. One of the most well known baseball players in history, pitcher-turned-outfielder Babe Ruth was originally from the Red

Imagine being in the 1960s watching your 2 most favorite baseball teams play against each other in the world series. The score is 9-9, the game is tied,the bases are loaded and your favorite player is up to bat. You're sitting in the crowd on the edge of your seat wondering what is he gonna do. Will he hit a home run and win the world series, or will he strike out and disappoint His whole team? Baseball can be very complicated sometimes, but when you know more about a baseball team, famous player, and the equipment ,baseball won’t be complicated anymore .The New York Yankees were well-known in baseball during the 1960s, because of their popularity, the type of equipment they used, and their baseball players.

He states, "This is not about stupidity, it is about what is fair in baseball, and what is not. It is about the overall appeal of the national pastime. It is about caring, interest, and most of all, competition. Right now, there is very little of any of these components outside of the 212 area code." Most importantly, he explains why baseball needs a salary cap by saying "it is the only way to put constraints on what the Yankees are doing and to return the sport to the interesting and suspenseful form of sporting entertainment it once used to be." The Yankees are at an unfair advantage all across the league, and nobody, not Atlanta, Boston, Baltimore, Cleveland, or perhaps even Los Angeles, can acquire talent the way they can. The only way to prevent them from doing so is to put a cap on how much they can pay their entire team.

Jayson Stark, ESPN columnist, presents an interesting argument of the downfall of baseball after free agency. He uses sarcasm and slight humor to introduce the reader to the topic of free agency and uses the argument style of comparison and contrast to predict what today might have held had there been no free agency. But within his column, player agent Tom Reich states, “The people who criticize free agency to easily today don’t realize how bad baseball was twenty-five years ago” (Stark). It is Stark who realizes that the talent of the game has improved, but the overall passion in each player may have decreased.

There were many reasons the scandal that was the 1919 World Series happened, none more important, and maybe less mentioned than the greed of Charles Comiskey, the teams owner. This club may have been the best ever assembled, but it may have also been the most underpaid. No incident explains this any better than the salary of Eddie Cicotte, Eddie had won 28 games in 1917, the war had harmed 1918, but Eddie was back for 1919, but Eddie was only paid $6,000 for the 1919 season, many pitcher in the league with much less talent was paid more than twice that amount. Eddie wasn't the only one, as a whole Comiskey was paying a much smaller salary to his players than any other team would have to pay for the same talent. But for Comiskey it was all about the money.

In the year 1919 a huge sports scandal shocked baseball. The Black Sox Scandal occurred in the 1919 World Series where the White Sox played against the Reds. This Scandal is the reason why professional sports banned gambling on your own team and players can’t bet on themselves.The Scandal was about two gamblers approaching the White Sox and telling the players who at the time were making a very low amount of money due to the great depression; who offered them White Sox players a total of 100,000 dollars to throw the World Series to the Reds because they were heavily favored. This would be a huge payout to gamblers. Before the first pitch was even thrown in the World Series the rumors circled around that the White Sox were bribed, and several months after the World Series was thrown in the favor of the Reds, eight players on the team were accused of throwing the World Series. Those eight players were banned from the major league for life.

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One such scandal this paper will look to examine is the banishment of Pete Rose, and how it relates to the Black Sox. One source that will be used is “A Sense of Place: In Memoriam: A. Bartlett Giamatti.” College Teaching, Vol. 37, No. 4 (Fall, 1989), pp. 150-151, by R. William Franklin. Franklin’s article helps connect the Black Sox Scandal to the issues surrounding Pete Rose in the 1980’s. Franklin’s article helps to show how Commissioner Giamatti based his decision to banish Pete Rose off of the precedent set by Kensaw Mountain Landis. When it comes to researching other scandals to draw comparisons, a good source would be Fran Zimniuchs book Crooked: a History of Cheating in Sports (Lanham, MD: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2009), which examines several scandals that have come about in the years during and after the Black Sox. Overall, through the use of these sources, and many more, this paper will hope to paint a picture of the cause, impact, and legacy of the Black Sox

If you want to watch a team that has no fans then watch the Chicago White Sox. I mean Chicago already has its team in the Cubs and the White Sox name is just a copy of the Red Sox. Since in 1894 when The White Sox were created has ruined my life and since June 22 2003 the day I was born I´ve had a hatred to the White sox had only 1.75 million people at their parade

The Red Sox currently have one of the most feared offenses in baseball. An offense an opposing pitcher would want to fake sick to get out of pitching to this potent group of hitters. This lineup has everything from young guns to grizzled veterans hitting on all cylinders it's impossible to pitch to them right now any mistake will get

Back in 1958, a man by the name of Walter O'Malley moved his professional baseball team from Brooklyn to Los Angeles. Although Walter didn’t know it yet, this move would affect the professional sports league in two significant ways. First, it expanded the market for professional sports to cities on the west coast in states like California, and Washington. Second, the relocation also altered the relationship between sports franchise and their communities.

Anyone who knows anything about baseball knows that quite a few moving pieces go into winning a game, importantly a series, more importantly, a championship. Fundamentals, timely hitting, pitching and old fashioned luck. However, Theo Epstein needs to be awarded the credit due his way. Epstein traded for Rizzo, pulled off a one-sided deal for Arrieta and drafted Kris Bryant. Add on the signings of Jon Lester, Jon Lackey, Ben Zobrist and Jason Heyward and you have the 2016 World Series Champions. No, seriously, you do. He did

The other day, I got into an argument about Rick Porcello. One person made that argument that if you believe in fWAR, Porcello has been good. He’s been worth 8.4 fWAR over the past 3.5 years or about roughly 2.4 fWAR per year primarily due to a strong FIP and the ability to pitch a lot of innings. If one win costs $7.5 million then paying $20 million per year is a slight but not huge overpay. Writers at Fangraphs have also argued that Porcello is underrated (http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/the-underappreciated-and-evolving-rick-porcello/), that he’s developed nicely into a 3 win player (http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/instagraphs/tigers-and-red-sox-swap-cespedes-and-porcello/) that moving to Boston will make him better (http://www.fangraphs.com/fantasy/three-things-the-red-sox-will-do-for-rick-porcello/) and that he is worth ((http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/rick-porcellos-upcoming-enormous-payday/) roughly $20 million per year (http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/red-sox-lock-up-rick-porcello/). Paul Swydan, an author for Fangraphs, wrote an article in the Boston Globe suggesting that Porcello is the thirteenth best pitcher in baseball (https://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2014/12/19/red-sox-really-need-get-ace-pitcher/mSX30HHA8zMnh1jVd0XGmO/story.html). On the other hand, I made the argument that Porcello is a slightly better version of Bud Norris. Let me explain why I made that argument and why just using one number to decide a pitcher is worth $100 million isn’t always the best

Just because a team has the money to go out and pay the high price free agents, does that mean that they are going to be successful? Not necessarily, as the Baltimore Orioles have shown, they have one of the higher team payrolls in the majors but they are at the bottom of their division. So maybe it is what you do with the money that matters. And in the Minnesota Twin's case this year, who are a small-market team, they got the best out of their relatively unknown players. But the thing that eventually hurt them was their inability to go out and get a key player before the trading deadline.

For prospects that are forced into the minor leagues for development, the road to the majors has proven a grueling process and the majority of players never make it to the major leagues. Extremely low salaries and bonuses in the minor leagues has become an ongoing, controversial topic between MLB commissioner Bud Selig and minor league players 17. A fast food worker makes between $15,000 and $18,000 a year, which is two or three times as large as minor league players’ average salary, so minor league players are forced to have multiple jobs throughout the year 18. The majority of minor league players lie below the federal poverty level and while MLB salaries are rapidly increasing, minor leagues salaries remain constant. The MLB receives exemptions