can someone help me write a speech on baseball a little history and how it has changed from then tell now?

Answer 1

no you should do your own homework

Answer 2

The game has essentially stayed the same. 9 innings, three outs, 9 men on the field. The game is played until it is over. No 2 minute warning, no 18 second shot clock. It is game that goes unrushed and passed from one generation to the next.

A) The Black Sox- In the early 1900s there was the worst scandal that almost brought down the sport.
B) Babe Ruth brought the sport back and made it the national pastime.
C) Jackie Robinson breaks the color barrier and leads the way for race relations in the U.S.
D) Collusion and the players strike almost brings down the sport again.
E) The steroid fuled race for home runs between McGwire and Sosa bring the sport back to popularity.

However it is still a sport with heroes and villians. Bonds breaks the home run record but is a villian because of his steroids use. Bobby Thompson hits the home run called the Shot Heard Around the World to lift the Giants to the playoffs but now is known to have cheated by stealing signs. Three Finger Mordacai Brown loses two fingers in an accident but can pitch a ball like no one before or since because of his injury. Ernie Banks has an eternal enthusiasm for the game despite never reaching the playoffs. Kirk Gibson and the worst hitting lineup in playoff history beat the Bash Brother A's. Even the Red Sox finally winning the World Series shows that there is always hope with every new year.

Then you conclude by reading the quote from former Baseball commisioner Bart Giamanti to bring the house down:

"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it goes .... And Summer is gone."

Answer 3

Define "then"...like the '80s? the '50s? the beginning of the game in the late 1800s?

shouldn't you be doing your own homework?

here...try this one out...maybe it will work, just replace "RAY" with your teachers' name!

"Ray, people will come Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. Of course, we won't mind if you look around, you'll say. It's only $20 per person. They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it: for it is money they have and peace they lack. And they'll walk out to the bleachers; sit in shirtsleeves on a perfect afternoon. They'll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were children and cheered their heroes. And they'll watch the game and it'll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick they'll have to brush them away from their faces. People will come Ray. The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh... people will come Ray. People will most definitely come."

Answer 4

Major League Baseball is a business, first and foremost. Baseball has been played since the founding of the U.S. (Colonial soldiers wrote about playing in their diaries at Yorktown). Most people think it was invented in the 1800s, this is not true. There is a good start, now you can finish it.

Answer 5

Baseball was started in the late 1800's and it has changed due to the steroid era and the players getting more talented and bigger than before

Answer 6

But it hasn't changed all that much.

Despite better equipment, stronger players and a larger fan base, the basics are the same: you have to operate as a team

Answer 7

I would include the downward turn caused by outrageously high salaries and the use of steroids and other performance enhancing drugs.

Answer 8

Google and go to the library

Answer 9

LOL this kid is funny man.....go to wikipedia and do it yourself.

Answer 10

all you need to write is one word-
STEROIDS!!!