Triple-A All-Star Game

no wins season was coming to an end with our final game of this full childhood memorable year. Everything felt different today. As if there was a purpose I am where I am and I held meaning. It was a scorching triple digit sunny day as we entered the top of the fifth inning against the team we’ve already played, and lost to terribly. But it was a complete different story this go-around. The game was seven to seven. Closest game we have had all year. My team and I had an indescribable connection

infield to break up his perfect-game. Coach Kevin Davidson would come out to get Morales and the crowd, mostly Diamond Dawg fans, to give him a standing ovation. Most people in the stadium was disappointed when the pitch before the hit, when a borderline pitch was not called on a strike. Mitch McCarthy would get the final out after one walk and one single, to earn the Boom their league leading fifth shutout. “He pitched the most dominant game I have seen in all my years in the

James. The debate over who is the best player between these two great athletes, has divided sports fans since LeBron earned his first Finals Championship. For many years Michael Jordan has been seen as one of the greatest player to ever play the game of basketball. Michael Jordan was first drafted into the NBA by the Chicago Bulls as the third pick in the first round of the NBA draft of 1984, after finishing his college career at the University of North Carolina. Michael Jordan has been known

The addition of African Americans into Major League Baseball has made it a richer game. The United States of America is known as a huge melting pot as many immigrants and refugees would come to America as a new home and beginning. Baseball was a game that brought happiness to all Americans, despite their color, ethnicity or background. Major League Baseball began in about 1867 and prior to the 19th century, we all know that the United States of America was built on slavery. Even after the slaves

Berkman, “the Big Puma,” also known as “Fat Elvis,” was a six time MLB All-Star, the National League Comeback Player of the Year in 2011 a World Series champion with the St. Louis Cardinals the same year, and the National League leader in runs batted in for 2002. He was an outfielder/first baseman for the Houston Astros from 1999-2010, the New York Yankees in 2010, the Cardinals from 2011-2012, and the Texas Rangers in 2013. Despite all his accomplishments on a baseball diamond and his passion for winning

sport at the time. He was an activist who fought for rights for him and others like him all throughout his life. Roberto Clemente was born on August 18, 1934. He was born during the great depression and was the fifth and last child of his family. His father being the main sugarcane farmer on his bosses farm, the was the one who

basketball for 4D, a youth basketball team with numerous All-Americans on their roster. Ariza attended Westchester High School in Los Angeles and played varsity basketball. As a junior, he and other future NBA players Bobby Brown, Brandon Heath, and Hassan Adams led Westchester to the California State championship. As a senior, Ariza was considered the number 18 player in the nation, listed as the number 5 power forward, and rated a five-star recruit by Rivals.com in 2003. Ariza accepted a scholarship

or Lebron James. There are many attributes of what makes a great basketball player, however there are three that specifically stick out to me. All NBA players should have certain characteristics in order to be considered great. In order to be a great basketball player, you must be able to carry your team to win a championship when necessary. The NBA star Lebron James has done this many times. Lebron shows time and time again that he has what it takes to not only get to the finals, but also get his

A game that started with eighteen men in a YMCA gymnasium in Springfield, Massachusetts, has grown into a game that more than 300 million people play worldwide. The man who created this instantly successful sport was Dr. James Naismith. In 1891, under direction from Dr. Luther Gulick, the head of the School, Naismith was given 14 days to create an indoor game. The goal of this directive was to provide a creative and healthy indoor “athletic distraction” for a rowdy class of students during the brutal

ballplayers like Buck O’Neil, had to endure troubling times and unjust hardships. On the surface, I Was Right on Time is a memoir, a story about O’Neil’s time spent navigating through black baseball and his stories of some of the greatest to play the game, but underneath the tales of a great American sport, is a great American travesty; a real look into the days of segregation and the harshness of racial problems in 20th century America. Unlike many other memoirs, O’Neil doesn’t talk much about his