Speech On Boston Red Sox

Ever since I could remember, I have always had a great interest and love for the game of baseball. As a kid, I would spend countless hours in the backyard with my grandfather, or even by myself, tossing, hitting and fielding a baseball. When I wasn't in the yard pretending to be Nomar Garciaparra I would watch the Boston Red Sox games on TV with my Grandfather.  Even in my early adolescence, as impatient as most are, I had the patience to sit there and watch the Sox.With my eyes glued to the screen with a look of anticipation fixed on my face ready to mimic my grandfather with the excitement of a home run hit or the frustration of Mo-Vaughn striking out. Call me crazy, but I was addicted, even as a young boy, to Boston Red Sox baseball.

Would you want to be discriminated because of the color of your skin? Would you like to be in a sport that you love but everyone hates you being in it? Would you be able to take all the insults about racism towards you and not fight back? Wouldn't you try to stop this? Jackie Robinson had to deal with all of this when he played for the Brooklyn Dodgers . On April 15, 1947 Jackie Roosevelt Robinson signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers making him the first african american major league baseball player.

Did you know Babe Ruth wore a cabbage leaf under his hat to keep him cool? Did you know the odds of a fan getting hit by a baseball are 300,000 to 1? And did u know the shortest baseball player that ever played was recorded to be 3 feet and 7 inches? These are interesting facts I stumbled upon research, but I bet most of you did not know. There are many interesting facts that people like you and I don’t know about baseball throughout its history. Have you ever asked yourself where did baseball come from, who created it, or even ask what baseball went through in the past to receive its highly respected title? We watch baseball games for the sake of enjoyment like every other sport but most people, like myself, don’t know how it all began.

The name softball was first used by Walter Hakanson, a Denver YMCA official, in 1926. He suggested it to the International Joint Rules Committee, and in 1934 it included the Amateur Softball Association.

Also making sure you have a good grip on the baseball and placing your fingers on the “horseshoe” with both index fingers being perpendicular to one another

What sport do you enjoy playing or watch the most? For me the answer had always been Baseball. Starting being played in the late 1800s Baseball has since become a national Pastime in the United States. I hope this speech will help you gain a better understanding on how the sport is played.

Going to a game in Fenway is a smorgasbord of delightful feelings. Even the walk up to the ballpark is some thing to behold. Walking with hundreds of passionate fans, all decked out in their red sox T-shirts, jerseys, and of coarse that iconic navy hat with the red B on it. I feel like I belong there with this organized group of strangers. There is such a since of family as I see people from the “T” car I was on and chatted with. A few hundred yards ahead I could hear a “Lets Go Red Sox” chant as people around me began to join in

Today was a lot of fun! Dad took me to the Red Sox game today. Even though they are not doing very well this year, they can still turn it around. They have two more months. They played the Detroit Tigers today. The game went in to extra innings and both pitchers threw the whole game. My! What a game it was. The Red Sox pulled it out 6-5 in 11 innings. The plus side of going to watch them play against the Tigers is that we got to watch the great Ty Cobb. Though, Elmer Myers really shut down Cobb as he went 0-5 with one run scored and was caught stealing once. They said on the radio after the game that he is still hitting .316 though. The Red Sox ended up collecting 12 hits to the Tigers 8, but the tigers fielded a lot better though, having 2

Today I want to share with you the story of the black sox scandal of 1919.

Have you ever had a life changing moment? Many individuals have faced life changing experiences like Feng Ru in the “Father of Chinese Aviation”, like Jackie Robinson in ‘I Never Had It Made’, and like Melba Pattillo Beals in ‘Warriors Don’t Cry.’

One of the biggest events that really sparked the start of the new interest of baseball was the building of the new New York Yankee stadium. By the outside being painted, light towers being placed in the outfield, a two story concession stand being built, and corporate boxes being put in, the Yankee’s manager, Leland “Larry” MacPhail, was really setting the stage as to what baseball and baseball parks would turn

Fenway-Kenmore is a cultural, commercial and academic hub that is best known for its Fenway Park, the Red Sox stadium, that was built in 1912 and is the oldest ballpark in Major League Baseball. This neighborhood that Bostonians know and love today, however, would be hardly recognizable it from its original swamp-like state. When Fenway-Kenmore was annexed from Brookline to Boston in the late 1800s, it was already infested with flooding and pollution due to the Muddy River. Landscape architect Frederick Law Olmstead concocted a solution, and in the late 1870s, began designing Fenway-Kenmore’s Back Bay Fens. Commonly known as “The Fens,” it is one in his series of Boston parks, the Emerald Necklace. Although the Muddy River had two major floods in 1996 and 1998, a massive renovation on the Emerald Necklace was done in 1999 that has allowed the park to mark Fenway-Kenmore to this day.

Baseball has for a long time been a staple in the American sporting culture as baseball and America have grown up together. Exploring the different ages and stages of American society, reveals how baseball has served as both a public reflection of, and vehicle for, the evolution of American culture and society. Many American ways including our landscapes, traditional songs, and pastimes all bear the mark of a game that continues to be identified with America's morals and aspirations. In this paper I will be addressing the long residuals of baseball as it specifically relates to the emergence of the

The city of Worcester, Massachusetts has been the home of many baseball franchises since the "Worcester Worcesters" or more commonly known the Worcester Ruby Lets were born in 1880. At that time in professional baseball history the game was different, it was played with only a bat and a ball no safety equipment or manicured fields. Over the years Worcester has seen many sports teams come and go such as The Sharks, the Tornadoes, the Worcesters, the Surge, the Marauders, the IceCats, the Counts, the Astros, the Blazers, and the Bombardiers to name a few.

Thesis Statement: The Black Sox scandal left has been embedded in history for the idea that was presented and the