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November, 2, 2016 the Chicago Cubs won the world series. On November, 4, 2016 they held a parade in Chicago. At 8:00 in the morning I woke up to my parents telling me to get ready. I put on my Cubs shirt, ate two eggs and ham, then went straight to the train station. As we went through each stop all you could see was blue and white shirts, hats, and W flags. After a while the conductor turned on his microphone and said that we were skipping the rest of the stops because the train was full. I was delighted because it was getting really noisy in the cart. Then we get to Chicago. We are all both shocked and thrilled by the amount of people walking down the streets. It felt like there was a million people there, but I was wrong. I ended up finding out that 5 million Cubs fans went out to Chicago to celebrate, and it was known to be the largest sports event in United States history. We walked to a a street in front of Millennium Park that was closed out for the parade. That 's when my dad said" Let 's keep going that way", pretending like he knew where he was going. We decided to stop. All I was thinking was how we were ever going to find out where to go to see them the Cubs. and next thing you know my
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I wasn 't that worried because they 're already 17 and 19 years old, but my parents were worried. At that moment everyone took out there phones and stated calling them. But with our luck there was no reception. While we were all calling, my dad said" Everyone stay here and I 'll go look for them". I don 't think that was the best idea, but I 'm not a parent so I wouldn 't know how that felt. I thought to myself well this is easy just look for a really tall person, because my cousin is taller then anyone else in my family. Turns out there are a lot of tall people in Chicago. Then we stated to get more worried considering the fact the there were millions of people there. I decided to try to call my sister again but it went straight to voicemail for the
The franchise began in 1901, in Baltimore, Maryland. The team competed as the Orioles for two seasons in the American League. Two years later, in 1903, the Orioles were sold to Frank Farrell and Bill Devery. They took the team to New York, more specifically to Hilltop Park from 1903-1912. Soon after, the team was named the New York Highlanders.
Since this happened in 1919, this is around the time when people became more interested in sports, whether it’s listening to them on the radio, watching them at the field, or hearing about it after the game, sports had become a lot more popular around the time that this happened. So if the White Sox going
Hello Leah,you should really come to Michigan. There are so many cool things here. You can go to a Detroit Tigers baseball game,Michigan Advenchers , or even just go swimming in the great lakes. Michigan in my opinion is the best place to be. You could even go to Detroit witch by theh wzay is home to a real major leage baseball team.
If a team wins the world series it will let the world know who dominated all the teams that year. The 1917 Chicago white Sox won the world series beating the New York Giants four to two in the World series. They had a wild card and so most people knew they were gonna win it. The chicago white sox were now more popular in chicago for the team they had thinking they were gonna be one of the
Can people say that the Chicago Cubs are the best team in MLB right now? Well they have won the World Series and they have not done that in over a century. Could that convince you that they are the best in the league? Baseball is a hard sport and to think that a team can do a century without a World Series win seems statistically impossible but it has happened to one team in the MLB and that is the Chicago Cubs. Why has it been so long for the Cubs to win a championship?
We will see you tomorrow night.” The calls from Joe Buck. The Cardinals win an unbelievable Game 6 of the World Series. Freese’s triple in the 9th and walk-off home run in the 10th etched him in as one of the great playoff players of all time. As you see, Cardinal dominance continues into the new century, helping the Cardinals be one of America’s greatest
The team won and got to play in District 22 finals at the Yankee stadium where thousands of people would watch him compete for the title of victor alongside his team. “It’s much better inside,” El Grande said, “The Yankee stadium” “Are you ready?” Ellie said, “Are you kidding me?” Manny said, “We were born ready” (214) This quote lets readers know that Michael has achieved his dream of wanting to play in the Yankee stadium since he moved to New York.
Zachary Mirza Mrs. Scherer English 227 10 December 2015 Mickey Mantle Mickey Mantle, also known as “The Mick”, was a very successful baseball player. Some of his greatest accomplishments include: four home run championship titles, a Triple Crown batting average award, and three Most-Valuable-Player (MVP) awards. However, Mickey Mantle’s humble beginnings and influential family lead him to a successful career in baseball . Mickey Mantle was born on October 20, 1931 in Spavinaw, Oklahoma to Lovell and Elven “Mutt” Mantle. Mutt was a famous baseball player himself.
Turner field was built in 1996 to host the 1996 summer Olympics, and the stadium shows off its Olympic history with landmarks that are recognizable from the Olympics. Fans from all over Georgia and many other states travel to Atlanta to come see the Braves play in their beautiful stadium. Turner Field created an electric atmosphere that allowed the athletes to perform at their best ability, but as the years have passed the crowds have died down. One article noted that in 2001 “THERE WERE 10,000 empty seats at Turner Field as the Braves finished off the Astros in the divisional round”(Lake). Each year there are less and less fans at the games to cheer on the Braves.
The Yankees would defeat the Padres in four games to win their 24th World Series Championship(New York Yankees History). They would also go on to defeat the Braves in four games in the 1999 World Series and the Mets in five games in the 2000 World Series to win their 25th and 26th World Series Titles(New York Yankees
On October 13th, The Cubs won a postseason series for the first time ever at Wrigley Field when they punched their ticket to the NLCS by beating the St. Louis Cardinals. However, in a fiery matchup against the New York Mets, the Cubs fell flat. The Mets were in control, their offense pummeled the Cubs pitching, scoring a total of 21 runs in 4 games. It wasn 't the time for the Cubs. The Mets caught fire, the Cubs were missing something.
Chicago Cubs Introduction The Chicago Cubs are a Professional American Baseball Team that competes in the Sports and Entertainment Industry. Tom Ricketts and family bought the Chicago Cubs along with Wrigley Field from the Tribune Company in 2007. The Chicago Cubs are one of the oldest franchises to this day. They are known for their old school ballpark right in the middle of a neighborhood, and the fans are known to party.
The special piece of clothing in my life is the Cubs shirt I got for Christmas. I love this particular shirt because It represents the first time I went to a Cubs game. My favorite team in the Major League Baseball league is the Chicago Cubs because my family has been Cubs fans for years. This shirt brings me back so many memories from when I went to the Cubs stadium, however, they did lose, but it was still an amazing experience. I also love this shirt because when we were in the store to get it someone tripped over a stool and I caught them.
I learned about baseball as I sat between my great-grandfather and grandfather during holidays and summer picnics. If we were in the park, my uncles and cousins picked an area for the ball field. If we were at the farm, an empty pasture would suffice. As I grew, I became the runner for the older uncles, who weren’t fast anymore. Thus, I learned to play baseball under the guidance of my uncles and cousins.
Post speech, The Washington Post described the scene at Yankee Stadium: “strong men weep this afternoon, expressionless umpires swallow hard, and emotion pump the hearts and glaze the eyes of 61,000 baseball fans in Yankee Stadium. It was Lou Gehrig, tributes, honors, gifts heaped upon him, getting an overabundance of the thing he wanted least—sympathy. But it wasn’t maudlin. His friends were just letting their hair down in their earnestness to pay him honor. And they stopped just short of a good, mass cry.”