Baseball Essays

Kesey’s renowned novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, is a tale of self actualization under manipulation and deceit of institutions and repression. Though the novel may be original in it’s setting and characters, the origin of the plot is one as old as time. Many parallels can be drawn from Kesey’s piece to others […]

Have you ever seen someone strange? Strange enough, in fact, to chill you to your bones, and boil your blood all at once? I haven’t seen someone like this, but I have read about someone like this. In the fantastic story “The Ratcatcher” by Roald Dahl I will ‘travel’ down into the depths of the […]

The only basis for Heman Sweatt’s 1946 application rejection from the University of Texas Law School was his race. Sweatt initiated a lawsuit in state court to compel graduate school officials to admit him. Texas lacked a separate graduate school for African Americans at the time. The trial court acknowledged that denying Sweatt equal educational […]

The Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York is hallowed ground for baseball fans worldwide. In the halls of this institution the names of the greatest players to ever play the game are enshrined and honored for people from around the world to come and marvel at. With well over a century of professional […]

Mamie “Peanut” Johnson, Toni Stone, and Connie Morgan were three ladies who played baseball. They had to overcome segregation, prejudices, and many other issues just to be able to play baseball. The male players allowed them to home base but not without throwing in a cheap shot such as trying to kick them in their […]

Time and again, Negro League players shared how restaurants refused to serve them and hotels refused to rent them rooms, even when they were the sole Black members of their high school and college sports teams. African-American athletes had to make do with the fare offered by the hot dog stands at the fields where […]

Reggie Jackson was one of the best baseball players ever. He appeared in 27 World Series games. While the batting average in the MLB playoffs is .274. Reggie Jackson batted with an average of .357. He had 10 home runs. He even won 3 straight World Series with the Kansas City Athletics, and back-to-back World […]

The practice of slavery was owning a person or group of people and force them to do manual labor. This practice in America started in Jamestown, Virginia in 1619. The first 19 slaves were seized and brought over on Spanish Slave ships by the Dutch. Slaves were physically abused during these times because the government […]

There have been many professional players that have decided to take a stand against their athletic organizations in some shape or form. These players use their sport as a platform to express their personal beliefs to the public. History of this kind of protest first arose in the boxing ring, by a boxer that went […]