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Baseball's Color Barrier and Jackie Robinson

Astonishingly, he stole 40 bases and scored 113 runs (Olsen, 1974). From the beginning, Jackie Robinson proved himself not only ...

TV, Major League Baseball, and Economics

and the game. Televised Coverage of the National Pastime No on will deny that television has changed the character and promotion ...

An Analysis of the Film, Eight Men Out

This paper addresses the 1919 White Sox scandal in Major League Baseball that the film, Eight Men Out, is based on. This five pag...

Writing the Future and the Accurate Jules Verne

In four pages this paper examines the accuracy of Jules Verne's technological predictions in such works as Paris in the Twenty Fir...

Overview of the NFL's Dallas Cowboys

"the Boys are back in town." The team has been described as one of the great American sports dynasties and yet it has had to deal...

Second World War, Colonialism, Muslims, and India

In twelve pages this paper discusses how the Second World War and the response of the Indian soldier influenced separatism and ind...

Steroids and Major League Baseball

in men. "Females who use steroids may have problems with their menstrual cycles because steroids can disrupt the maturation and re...

Women's Baseball Leagues in Historical Context

Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848 for example (Roberts, 2005). The womens movement had begun and baseball was an...

Effects of Negro League Baseball

Frank Thompson in Long Island, who organized a group of Argyle Hotel waiters in the 1880s and ultimately merged with a Philadelphi...

Organized Sports and the Increasing Trend of Violence

violence in sports has serious implications for the direction of Western society in general, as well as negative implications for ...

Major League Baseball, Drug Testing, and Ethics

They also promised tough penalties for testing positive ranging from a ten-day suspension for a first positive testing and a possi...

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne and Futuristic Technology

as if it existed at the time. Carter Kaplan notes that "Verne exhibits strict adherence to known science or pseudo-science, a jour...

Grievance Procedures in Sports

assists community and charitable organizations; and it enhances and defends the NFL players image "on and off the field" (Our hist...

Legendary Pro Quarterbacks Joe Montana and Terry Bradshaw 'Passing into History'

territory to a Bayou country boy. Pittsburgh was a hardened steel city comprised of rabid sports fans desperate for a professiona...

Out-Of Market Sports Fans

MLB Advanced Media has tapped into todays ever-mobile society by making games available to approximately one-quarter of a million ...

Major League Baseball and Revenue Sharing

standard practice in major league baseball (MLB) for over a decade. This paper defines revenue sharing and argues that it is appar...

Increased Accountability in Education

Charter. The stated purpose was to provide parents with more information about the performance of their local schools. As with any...

Economics and Political Influences in Sport

may be akin to saying to the leading fast-food chains, such as McDonalds, Burger King KFC etc, and telling them that they will all...

Value of Joining a Nurses’ Organization

of nursing and by lobbying" both Congress and regulatory agencies in regards to healthcare issues that affect nursing (ANA, 2008)....

Public Relations for the Puerto Rico Hurricanes

but it does provide greater ease of scheduling and avoids bye situations at playoff time. Eastern Conference Western Conference C...

Post 1900 History of the New York Yankees

the first time on April 22, 1903, losing to Washington (The Official Site of the New York Yankees, 2007). However, with a never s...

Salaries and Benefits of NBA and NFL Players

extensions and exceptions to this cap (Inside Hoops, 2006). In terms of contracts there are both rookie and player contracts. A ro...

Nursing Education Bill

quality and care" of health services that offered to rural areas throughout the US (Clinton, 2007). In addition to providing fun...

Gary Nash/Race and Revolution

most important and fascinating of them were fashioned by black and white revolutionists who saw race as the great American dilemma...

Business Cycle Dating; Purposes of the Fed

This is a high-level view, and one that works only in retrospect. As example, it is difficult to accurately proclaim when the nat...

Shifting Vietnam to a Global Economy

The writer discusses the way in which Vietnam is transforming into a free market economy despite the fact that it is a Communist n...

Attitude and 3 National Football League Teams Classification

In five pages examples of NFL team classification are considered in this essay with 'good' being represented by the Tennessee Tita...

Major League Baseball and Influence of African Americans

In a paper consisting of twenty pages the racial integration that has come through professional baseball is explored in the contri...

Government and American Major League Baseball

things such as television rights and licensing fees, while each individual team is responsible for marketing games to consumers. I...

Switching Web Servers by a Fantasy Football League

tasks -- processing Web requests from clients and serving Web pages -- and are tuned accordingly. The application is not what matt...