Barnstorming

Have you ever wondered how basketball was made or started? Basketball (or a version of basketball) was played by the early Olmec people of ancient Mexico about 500 years ago. Instead of the basketballs we use today they played with the decapitated skulls of their conquered foes. But most people don’t consider that basketball so the credit goes to the Canadian Doctor James Naismith. (Bellis, 2014) The First Game Naismith had invented the game so the YMCA could play it during the winter season. He

If you really think there were more struggles during his flight food, water, how did he stay awake and not go crazy? How did he stay awake. Charles Lindbergh’s skills were air navigation and being an amazing pilot ("Daredevil Lindbergh and His Barnstorming Days."

years old his whole family move to a nearby town called Martinsville high school. This is where John become a basketball star on his basketball team. After highschool John Wooden was offered 5000 thousand dollars to join an organization called barnstorming. Where he would travel around with the New York Celtics for basketball. Though instead he decided to settle down with the love of his life Nell Riley. He decided he would become an english teacher and basketball coach and live a simple life. The

Throughout history, people have always loved and thrived on food and fun, and this is no different in the atmosphere of the 1930s. BRIDGE The 1930s was a time for new developments in sports, board games, and the food industry despite the widespread economic hardships faced by most americans at this time. During the 1930s and the great depression, sports remained as a thriving industry and a favorite pastime of americans. Through the economic and racial struggles within the industry, positive changes

Tibbets Jr. was born in Quincy, IL. Shortly there after his parents moved to Cedar Rapids, Iowa to raise him. When Paul was 12, his family packed up and moved to Florida where his future would be decided. When they first moved to Florida the barnstorming pilot who was promoting Baby Ruth candy bars gave Paul a ride. This changed his mind and he no longer had as strong of an interest to be a doctor. After this Paul wanted him to fly,however, his parents wanted him to be a doctor. Paul started

unsurpassed anywhere. African Americans continued to play baseball by forming their own teams. All the teams "barnstormed", or traveled around, to find competition. At this time, there was no formal league to organize these teams. It was during the "barnstorming" era that the term, shadowball, came into being. During this time, the New York Lincoln Giants warmed up by playing something called shadowball. This activity had all the players pretending that they were hitting or pitching a ball. This act, before

From Columbia to Yankee Stadium Christina was adamant that Gehrig receive a good education so, in 1921, he went to Columbia on a football scholarship to pursue a degree in engineering. Before his first semester began, New York Giants manager John McGraw advised him to play summer professional baseball under an assumed name, Henry Lewis. “Everyone does it,” McGraw explained, even though the illegal ball playing could have jeopardized Gehrig’s collegiate sports career. Gehrig was discovered after

Bessie Coleman became a household name. It was unheard of that a woman, let alone an African American, was a pilot. Soon Bessie did learn that it was hard to make money off being just a pilot so she returned to Europe to train in acrobatic flying, barnstorming as some may call it. She was going to perform stunts in air shows and that was unheard of! She returned to the United Stated as the first African American woman to earn an international permit to fly in 1921. Now it was time for Queen Bess to

he could perform. Don became frustrated because the people did not care about the good things that he had to offer them. After seeking God’s advice, Don quit his “job” as a messiah. He disappeared and began doing things that he enjoyed, like barnstorming. Don begins to teach Richard about life. In a sense, he was passing on his gift as a messiah to Richard. He introduces to Richard the small bits of wisdom in his handbook that he used when he had a question about life. The handbook answers

Baseball’s arrival in Latin America is arguably rooted as a by-product of America’s global colonialism and expansionism policy of Manifest Destiny (Iber et al., 2011). Latin America’s passion of baseball allegedly began at the end of the American Civil War and just before Cuba’s struggle for independence recognized as the Ten Years War from 1868 through 1878 (Arbena, 2011). According to Regalado (1987), this collective memory started when American sailors, who were stationed in Havana, persuaded