Derek Jeter Bye Jayden Hofstatter Did you know that Derek Jeter won 1,722 games in his career? Derek Jeter was born on June 26,1974 which makes him 43 years old. There are many things to learn about Mr. Jeter including his childhood, adult life, interesting facts, and achievements. Derek Jeter had a pretty average childhood. He grew up in Michigan. Dereks dad was a social worker. When he made the high school basketball team so his parents had him sign a contract to participate. As a teennager he player baseball. In the summer of his high school year he joined a high level baseball team called the Maroons. As an adult, he had to leave home to go try out for baseball. He messed up quite a bit when trying because he was nervous he singled
Tennessee and then following his boyhood dream of becoming a baseball player. He started out his
Jack Roosevelt Johnson was born in the very segregated south in Cairo, Georgia around 1919. Jackie grew up loving baseball and knew that is what he wanted to do. About two decades before Jackie was born the MLB was split between white and Negro leagues. Jackie being an African-American, of course played for the Negro Leagues. He strived in this sport. He lead the Negro League with most stolen bases and had a great batting average. Both his statistics and love for the game brought the name Jackie Robinson to the attention of the Brooklyn Dodger's manager Branch Rickey.
There was quite a number of African-Americans playing alongside white athletes on minor and major league teams during the period between the end of the Civil War and 1890, when baseball was known for being mostly integrated. He spent his whole professional career with the Brooklyn Dodgers from 1947-1956. He put up crazy numbers during his career which led to 6 all-star team selections, a World Series championship, Rookie of the Year, NL MVP, 2 time stolen base leader and a league batting champion. Jackie wore number 42, which was later retired by the MLB.
Jackie Robinson, born Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born on January 31, 1919 in Cairo, Georgia. He was the youngest of five children and was raised by his single-handedly mother Mallie Robinson in poverty. He went to John Muir High School and Pasadena Junior College, were he excelled in football, basketball, track, and baseball. Jackie Robinson won the regions Most Valuable Player in baseball in 1938. Jackie was inspired by his older brother Matthew Robinson to push for his goals, talents and love for sports. Jackie finished his education at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was the first student in the university to receive varsity letters in four sports. In 1941, Robinson had to leave UCLA because of financial problems just around graduation time. He ended up moving to Honolulu, Hawaii and played football for the Honolulu bears, but that didn’t last long because the United States entered World War II. Robinson served as a second lieutenant in the United States Army from 1942 to 1944, but was honorably discharged because; he refused to sit in the back of a segregated bus during boot camp in 1944.
Since then he has led his team to five world series titles and become the team captain. He is known for his good looks and quiet confidence. He is still playing shortstop for the Yankee’s today and never stops improving. More world series titles are seen in his future.
He was the 34th overall pick in the draft. He wanted to stay in school for his senior year but the Expos convinced him that they could fix his mechanics. On his first Minor League team in Jamestown he did not win 1 game in 8 starts. The coach told him that wins were not the goal and they wanted him to find a comfortable pitching motion. His next season in Class-A he led the league in walks but batters only batted .211 against him. In 1987 he was promoted to Class-AA and went 11-8 and led the league in strikeouts. In 1988 he was promoted to Class-AAA and his coach finally fixed his mechanics for good. He was moved up to the Major Leagues late that season and started 4 games. He won 3 of them and only walked 7 batters through 30 innings. His next season people thought he might be Rookie of the year but after a few bad starts was sent back down to Class-AAA. He was moved back up a little later and got advice from Nolan Ryan to land on his foot. It helped Johnson a lot. His fastball even hit 102 mph. In his final 11 starts he went 5-2. Hopes were looking up for Randy. Randy married his longtime 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
714 career home runs, had 2,209 career RBI's, and 2,873 total hits, all in only
Ty grew up as any normal southern boy did in the late 19th century. Ty was different in that he was highly compeitive and easliy tempered. In one example, while in fifth grade he beat up a fat boy for mispelling a word in a spelling contestand costing his team the game. He was driven to win at everything .(Ty Cobb 13-15)
They said he could give it a shot but warned him that there was a chance he wasn’t gonna make it. He went to the tryout and tried his hardest the next day at school the started announcing the players who had made it as the were going through the names he was very
Jackie Robinson was born on January 31, 1919 in Georgia. On this day, a legend arrived. Jackie was raised by his mother, and his mother alone. His father left before Jackie was born, and he didn’t remember one thing about him. Jackie had many siblings, brothers and sisters. Jackie had an older brother named Matthew, who was also very athletic. Jackie’s mother tried the best she could to raise these boys right, and teach them that no matter what the whites called them...they were special.
As corny and predictable as that headline is, considering this is the opening week of the 2016 Major League Baseball season, enough emphasis cannot be placed on the fact that BASEBALL IS BACK!
Jackie was born and raised in Cairo, Georgia 1919. He was raised by his single mother Mallie along with is four siblings. He was the first person at UCLA to obtain a varsity letter in baseball, basketball, football, and track. He married Rachel Isum who he met at UCLA. He however had to leave school due to financial reasons and decided to enlist in the military, but was honorably discharged due to being court-martialed due to his actions against racial discrimination. Jackie played one season in 1945 with the Kansas City Monarchs leading to further achievements in his professional baseball career.
Narrative: Michael Jackson was born and grew up in a strict working family in Gary, Indiana, USA on August 29, 1958. Jackson showed an early interest in music as did most of his family. His mother sang frequently, his father Joseph Jackson played guitar in a small-time R&B band, his older brothers often sang and played with their father’s guitar. Soon the family singing group started, with Michael as the main puppet and four of his older brothers. “After all it seemed to be the simplest way to earn money to feed so many kids said Joseph Jackson”. If you can't feed your kids teach them how to feed themselves. Anyway Michael soon outgrew his brothers with his unique talent not just for singing but for dancing as well. Jackson’s father, who is a controlling supposedly abusive father. "My father beat me. It was difficult to take being beaten and then going onstage.
Michael Jordan was born on February 17, 1963 in Brooklyn, New York. Jordan's family moved to moved to Wilmington, North Carolina while he was young along with his three siblings. He attended Ogden Elementary School, and later Trask Junior High School. Jordan attended Emsley A. Laney High School, where he anchored his athletic career by playing baseball, football, and basketball ("Michael Jordan" Wikipedia). When jordan was twelve, he played with his local baseball team called the Babe Ruth All-stars. Jordan helped his team win there championship (Mattern 79). As A freshman at Laney, Jordan was cut from the varsity team and was reduced to playin junior varsity. His sophmore year he was cut from the varsity team once again, but this time, his best friend Leroy Smith, made the team. When Michael found out he did not make the team, he said:
One of the earliest memories I have of my father is when he would take me to the park and we would play baseball. My father was eager to teach me everything he knew about the game, and I was eager to learn. He took it easy on me at first, allowing me to overcome my fear of being hit by the ball. Each time we went back to the park he would throw the ball a little harder. It was not long before I could catch almost anything he threw at me. My father also used his knowledge of the game to teach me to hit a baseball. Eventually, I was skilled enough to play any position on a baseball team.