California Angles (American League), then Houston Astros (National League), and ended his career with the Texas Rangers (American League). Greg Maddux has received four Cy Young Awards in his thirteen-year career. The Cy Young Award is the award that is given to the best pitcher for the year. Nolan Ryan never received a single Cy Young Award. This is an especially hard accomplishment now. The recent years in baseball have been the biggest offensive years that the sport has ever seen. There has been more
filled with impressive statistics that may rarely be duplicated. His career extends from the early 1980’s into the new millennium, and continues today. During this stretch, nicknamed “The Rocket”, he won more Cy Young awards, seven, than any other pitcher in MLB history. The Cy Young award is given annually to the League’s best pitcher. In 2003 he won the 300th game of his career. He is only one of four MLB pitchers in all time to pass the 4,000 strikeout mark. Roger Clemens started his dominance
“The other mother has encased in glass marbles” the souls of the ghost children and are hidden throughout her world (Parsons, Sewers, and McInally 379). Coraline’s exploring game of hide-and-go-seek has some frightening encounters, especially one she has with her other father. According to Parsons, Sewers, and McInally, for Coraline “to complete her journey” she must face her other father (381). “The other mother knowingly gives Coraline the key [from her mouth] needed to open the flat in which her
Parsons, Naarah Sawers, and Kate McInally and Good Mother/Bad Mother: Cultural Motherhood from “Hansel and Gretel” to “Coraline,” by Emily Culp, that delve greater into Coraline and how motherhood is portrayed in the book. The novel tells the story of a young girl named Coraline Jones; she is a quirky, imaginative girl who genuinely loves adventure. Her real parents are quite inattentive; they are mostly too distracted by their work to pay much attention to Coraline. This leads to her to discovering an
attentive and where everything is magical and wonderful. In this sense, the story of Coraline is like stories such as The Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland, and Labyrinth. These movies, including Coraline, take after the same fundamental blueprint: the young hero will be an
but also made the game more interesting and exciting for most fans. Bonds for one “said he believes ‘without a doubt’ he belongs in the Hall of Fame” (Berg). During the steroid era, “Barry Bonds ended his career with seven MVP awards, 14 all-star teams, eight gold glove awards and ranks as the second best position player of all time” (Berg). Bonds was a “five tool player” as some would say. He had great knowledge of the game, he could hit for contact and power, while also being able to make amazing
Yankees with 27, and The cardinals are in second with 11. The next award is the Willie Mays World Series Most Valuable Player award or finals MVP for short. The finals MVP goes to the person who stood out in the finals. The person who won it
In the beginning there were players like Ty Cobb who hit .300 for 23 consecutive years, and the 'flying dutchman' Honus Wagner. Pitchers like the 'christian gentleman' Christy Mathewson, and the winningest pitcher in history Cy Young. In the years when the only Yankees were the people in the north and there was an upstart franchise called the American League there was a pitcher, his name was Walter Johnson. Known as the 'big train' because of his high powered fastball which was unequaled in all of
a cold and windy Friday night, i could hear the roar from Fenway park across the street. The Red Sox had a game tonight against their long time rival the New York Yankees. Their games would always be so thrilling and so exciting to be at, i was a young 15 year old boy who like everyone else wanted to be a MLB baseball player. I had always dreamed about playing on that beautiful and playing against those Yankees. Living in Boston mostly everyone here absolutely hates the yankees. I was having a hard
girlfriend, Lisa. They had four children together. In 1993 he was lights out. Randy was 19-8 with a 3.24 ERA. In 1995 Randy went 18-2 and struck out 294 people in 214 innings. Like many predicted, he won the Cy Young Award that year. In 2001 Randy had another great year and won his 3rd straight Cy Young Award. He led the league with a
If you missed the World Series last season, you missed the dominant young studs. Syndergaard and Matz have the most upside and may prove to be the best of the bunch at 23 and 24 years old respectively. Manny Machado - 23 years old - 3B Baltimore Orioles Machado can flat out play the game of baseball. He can hit bombs
How is math an influential part of baseball? Most people might just assume that baseball is a boring game played with two teams that have nine players on each side, who both take turns hitting and going on defense. People sometimes think that the game is only nine innings, and the team with the most amount of runs in the end wins. But there is so much more to it than that and it's all thanks to mathematics. I have especially noticed this due to my personal engagement with baseball, it is the main
it’s not surprising that their kids can’t name what teams Mike Trout, Bryce Harper, or Clayton Kershaw play for, despite knowing all about Steph Curry, LeBron James, or Kevin Durant. After Barry Bonds won his seventh and final Most Valuable Player award in 2004 while playing for the San Francisco Giants, only three African Americans have won either the American League or National League MVP: Philadelphia Phillies stars Ryan
understand structure and construction and how both are necessary in architecture. From a young age, Renzo Piano was watching to see how things might become a building. One would assume Piano sought to follow in his father’s footsteps, however that was not the case. Renzo admits in an interview, “truth is that I didn’t want to become an architect. I Just wanted to
The Vulture and the Child This award winning photograph was taken by Kevin Carter in 1993 in the African country of Sudan. Carter won a Pulitzer Prize for this picture in March 1994 (Long). This picture shows a famine stricken child crawling towards a UN food camp which was situated nearly a kilometer away. This picture was first published on the front page of The New York Times on March 23, 1993; followed by Mail & Guardian, a Johannesburg weekly. Later, it was published in the National Geographic
baseball players have experienced much success. Juan Gonzalez was the 1998 American League MVP. Sammy Sosa won the 1998 National League MVP award. Bernie Williams was the 1998 American League batting champion. Ivan Rodriguez won the 1998 America League MVP award. Pedro Martinez was the 1999 Cy Young Award winner. Rafael Palmiero won the American League Gold Glove Award in 1999. These are just a few of the outstanding Latino baseball players currently in Major League Baseball. The highest paid baseball
If they are able to finish with the better record they would end up playing in Southern California first and they are one of the few teams that have two starting pitchers that are NL Cy Young award candidates. Clayton Kershaw and Zach Grienke are coming off insane seasons and will most likely start the postseason with some insane numbers as well. Grienke and Kershaw both are finishing off the regular season with numbers that could send
Getting drafted to the MLB is very hard. It is possible to get drafted right out of high school, but players have to be very good and be worth the draft pick. If players are very good and are capable of making it to the MLB then scouts will go and watch them and see how they are doing and make sure that if they pick that player, then the player will be worth the choice and contribute to the team. But it is not very easy at all to get drafted, you have to have what it takes. Getting drafted
who was nicknamed "Knucksie" because of his usage and skill level with the knuckleball. Throwing Strikes was first copyrighted in 2013, which coincidentally is the same year that R.A. Dickey, at age 38 received the Cy Young award — becoming the first knuckleball pitcher to receive the award. This was a huge accomplishment for Dickey because no other knuckleball pitcher had been recognized previously as an outstanding pitcher in the League. The author R.A. Dickey, begins by telling his story about his
history that baseball wants to forget. The players during this time did some of the greatest things to ever happen to baseball such as Barry Bonds breaking the single season homerun record with 73, and Roger Clemens winning his record seventh Cy Young Award (Ortiz). These are Hall of Fame worthy stats, but they have a very slim chance of ever getting into the Hall of Fame because they are linked to using Performance Enhancement Drugs. These players should be allowed into the Hall of Fame because