The National League Of Major League Baseball

The Philadelphia Phillies have been a staple in Major League baseball for over 120 years. The Phillies are one of the League’s oldest teams dating back all the way to the year 1883. Over the years the Phillies have acquired many accolades and accomplishments; although the Phillies are a decorated team for many positive reasons they have also become the league’s most losing team, with over 10,000 losses. Although the Philadelphia franchise may have the most losses in any professional sport, whether it is football, basketball, or soccer, they have had many playoff runs and even a few World Series appearances. Throughout the winning and the losing seasons the Phillies have had some very good players, which went on to be a Hall-of-Famers, while many of the players were mediocre at best. Although not all of the players that played in Philadelphia were good, they had heart and drive to not let the rambunctious fans in Philadelphia not get the best of them. Whenever a family goes to one of these baseball games, the game may not be the center of attention for the kids or even the adults with the most entertaining mascot of all the Phillie Phanatic dancing around and being goofy in front of 20,000 people in the stands.

     Do you prefer a bases loaded double that clears the bases and involves an exciting play at home plate? Or a boring three-run homerun where the base runners trot around the bases, while the defense stands around with dazed looks on their faces? Do you prefer stolen bases, squeeze plays, and trying to move the base runners to make something happen; as opposed to a team waiting for someone to hit a homerun? If you answered “yes” then consider yourself a fan of “small ball.” The characteristic of a Designated Hitter is the major difference between Major League Baseball’s two leagues: The American League and the National League.

Baseball in America is about as common as alcohol in college , it is everywhere

Baseball in America is about as common as Cricket is to Indian Nations. Baseball was played and was also participated by everyone. People played it everywhere from large cities to even small towns. Children and even adults were playing. The game of baseball was invented between 1861 and 1865 which was before the American Civil War. Many of the people that know of the game of baseball reference as the “National Past Time”. Many people played baseball or even played the cousin sport called softball. Unlike basketball and football- baseball can be played well by an average height and weight person. Baseball came of age in the 1920s when Babe Ruth who passed away in 1948 came into the spotlight and led the power house New York Yankees to

17. Instead of the pitcher, designated hitters bat for the pitchers in the American League of Baseball, but not the National League.

Major League Baseball is an organization steeped in tradition and custom. Nothing short of an Executive Order is necessary to alter the rules that govern the sport. While that may be a slight exaggeration, the foundation of the game has remained largely unchanged on the professional level for decades. That said, a recent change in the rules has stirred a bit of controversy among managers, players and fans.

"Baseball as America." Academic Search Premier. Spec. issue of USA Today Magazine 1 Apr. 2002: n. pag. EBSCO. Web. 1 Dec. 2015. The Baseball Hall of Fame is an iconic American landmark, which houses thousands of artifacts from baseball's crude beginnings to its current day glory. This piece is simple, yet it demonstrates what an important aspect of American culture baseball has become. The artifacts demonstrate how far baseball has come, among its highlights are Jackie Robinson's uniform, articles from the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, and even "Shoeless" Joe Jackson's cleats. Pictures accompany the article which adds the needed bit of glamour to illustrate how greatly baseball has influenced American

The evolution of baseball has changed everything about baseball everything is different since the beginning ,including the players and how they play every new era has been better and their knowledge and how the play.The new generation of baseball players are showing baseball something they have never seen before.

Blue and orange are colors on New York City's flag. Brooklyn Dodgers were blue, and the New York Giants were orange. After the Dodgers and the Giants left for California, the Mets were sort of seen as their spiritual successors, so they inherited the colors of both teams. The Metropolitan Club (the New York Metropolitan's or the Mets) was a 19th-century professional baseball team that played in New York City from 1880 to 1887. The New York Metropolitan Baseball Club was the name originally in 1961 for the current day New York Mets

The Federal Baseball Club was a member of the Federal League of Baseball Players. This case was often called the Federal Baseball Ruling (Baseball-reference). It was believed that the National League of Professional Baseball Club and the American League of Professional Baseball Club conspired to monopolize the business of Professional Baseball by buying out members of the Federal League and by telling the members of the Federal League to leave. Monopolize is defined as either a group or organization that obtain exclusive possession or control. The federal league declared to be a third major league, having competition with the national league and the American league in 1914 (Baseball-reference). While competing for players and bringing in

From the sandlot to stadiums seating over fifty thousand people, the game of baseball has provided people of all ages with a

The Chicago Cubs are an American professional baseball franchise located on the north side of Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the Central Division of Major League Baseball's National League.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Well, sometimes a number can be worth even more than that. Here are some numbers: there have been 50 Super Bowl games played in football history. 312 people are enshrined in the National Baseball Hall Of Fame. There are 347 college basketball teams in Division One of the NCAA. And, in 2015, 1,134 young black men were killed by police in the United States of America. 1,134 people, in one year. That is almost 22 people each week, that is slightly more than three people a day. The issue of social justice, more specifically the relationship between police and the black community, is not new. Whose job is it to stand up for them? Politicians, a friendly neighbor, or athletes? There have been many examples of athletes taking stands for issues they believe in. The very presence of athletes like Jackie Robinson and Jesse Owens represented a challenge, even if they were not actively marching on the street. Others, such as Colin Kaepernick, Tommie Smith, and John Carlos, were more directly confrontational, using symbols of protest during the national anthem. Many people look up to athletes like they are gods, however, should the burden fall on them to have to solve these social problems? No, it should not. Athletes may draw attention to a problem, though they should not be expected to solve them.

Baseball was called the “the national pastime” for the first time in December of 1856, years before the first professional team, the Cincinnati Red Stockings, even came into existence in the year 1869. Baseball continued to develop and gain popularity throughout the end of the 19th century. Baseball spread after the Civil War by prisoners of war and soldiers where it was encouraged by officers as a way to pass the time and it allowed soldiers to take their minds off the situation at hand. The soldiers went home and brought their new knowledge with them, spreading the newly popular game to their children. Thus, baseball found its roots and started to grow into its title of “national pastime”.

their team to teams with deeper pockets. The A’s have the least money of any major league team. The cards are stacked against them with no star players, no money, and no edge in scouting new players. About six months later, the team had won more than 100 games including a twenty-game winning streak in August. (2002 Oakland Athletics Season, 2017) How did they do it? By all measures used at that time, the A’s should’ve had a down year. They should have been one of the weakest teams in baseball. Despite this, they finished first in their division and tied for the most wins in the league. (2002 Oakland Athletics Season, 2017) The secret to their success was data driven analysis of player performance, which they used to find