“I’m at the, gamblin spot, my hands on a knot / New York Yankee cap cover my eyes, stand in one spot” This is a line from “New York State of Mind II” by Nas. The idea of a New York Yankees hat brings up more emotions than any other sports apparel in the world. For some its pride, others hatred, fear, anger, style, etc. The hat is more than just the team which is the pride and joy of a city filled with incredible historical moments ranging from joyous moments like when the citizens blazed a pathway for the rest of the nation with its legalization of gay marriage to sad moments that rallied the nation to fight terror like the attack on the World Trade Centers. Since its founding by Giovanni da Verrazzano in 1523, New York has been an attraction for those all around the world. The location, the events, the skyscrapers, the teams, and depending on who you ask, the people, all scream to tourists around the world to visit.
The hat was designed to shade people’s eyes from the sun. When baseball began,
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teams used these hats to protect their player’s eyes from the sun, soon later logos were added to distinguish the teams. The following was huge and fans searched for ways to show their support. When the logo was added to hats, fans jumped at the opportunity to show who their team was. It was so simple, they didn’t have to wear the shirt, the hat was a small, simple and easy way to show support for your team. (Figure 1, Deleon) The Yankees are the greatest sports franchise in United States Professional Sports history. Their 27 World Series Championships aren’t even close to being threatened, with the closest competitor being the Montreal Canadians in the NHL with 23 but without a championship trip since 1993, New Yorkers have yet to show any concern. The hat gained popularity due to the teams winning nature. Real fans hate it but many fans like teams because they win. This led to the Yankees gaining one of the largest followings in the US during the 1900s. With championships came an increase in sales of guess what item, hats. The hat represented unity and pride for a team loved and followed by so many people across the globe. Due to the winning nature of the team, the Yankees have also become one of the most hated teams in the world.
Bandwagon fans would join in and support a team that they had no connection to whatsoever. This would draw criticism and hatred from many other fans saying that the fans weren’t real. The hat represented a fake culture, people who didn’t truly support a team, just the winning they were doing. The Yankees themselves drew hatred for “buying their championships.” The amount of money that George Steinbrenner put into the team caused rivals to get upset at the stars who would go to the team and the contracts that would be given to the players. Those who had huge contracts were despised and insulted every time they took the field away from home. The sight of the Yankees hat caused a different kind of emotion than that in the above paragraph. These fans felt hatred, jealousy, and anger, the idea that their team couldn’t do what the Yankees could was frustrating to
them. The hat grew and became more than just a sign for the team. In New York, there are 17 major gangs, all needing a distinguishing characteristic to keep them from being targeted by their own crew. One large group, the Richmond Turf Affiliates, is represented by the Yankees hat. The NY on the hat is read backwards to represent the phrase “young nigga.” The hat within the group represents unity, like it does with the team itself, except here the blurred line shows danger, some sort of protection and family. Outside this gang, the hat can represent fear. The sight puts the idea of death in the mind of rival gangs and those who live in the area. The hat has become a huge symbol in gang culture. The Los Angeles Dodgers hat being number 1 due to its association with the Crips, one of the largest gangs in the US, and the Cincinnati Reds hat being number 2 with an association to the Bloods, another large gang in the US. No matter what the hat, the feeling for that hat is mutual, each gang feels the same way about their logo. The hat also represents a certain style. The Yankees hat gained popularity throughout the US during the 1990s and 2000s because of rap. Artists like Nas, Jay-Z, Wu-Tang, Slick Rick, LL Cool J, Public Enemy, 50 Cent, and Biggie among others “repped” the hat in their videos. The style grew along with the genre, the hat represented the “cool” style associated with hip hop/rap. This was the time when “style” was baggy pants, sagging pants, backwards hat, and basketball shoes. This style spread across the US and you could see it being worn by most young men from high school campuses to college campuses to every day attire on the street. (Figure 2, thecoli.com) Although many artists wore the hat, not one made the hat as famous as Jay-Z. Jay Z said “made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can” (Jay-Z, “Empire State of Mind”) and he couldn’t be more right. Jay-Z’s influence is still seen today and whether you know his music or not; you know the look, Jay-Z wearing a Yankee hat with the straight-line tip and a straight face as if he’s always angry. (Figure 1, Deleon) During his reign as one of the top MCs in hip hop Jay-Z took the Yankee hat to the top. The 2000s saw a huge increase in sales of the Yankee hat to the point where Yankee stadium started selling Jay-Z inspired hats. People bought these hats now in support of an artist, an icon. The team was still relevant and gained a lot of support because of their play, but the icon, Jay-Z, brought a whole new sense of pride to the hat. It wasn’t just the team anymore. The style of the 1990s and 2000s didn’t require a Yankee hat but Jay-Z made it one of the largest pieces that you could match with that outfit. (Figure 3, Warner, Ahmed) Finally, we can’t forget about the emotions of the players. When those players put on the hat, it showed unity, being a team. It might mean something more than just that too, for every player they probably had very different emotions too; a dream come true, a contract, a struggle, pressure, hard work, etc. Stepping on the field wearing the hat also has a lot of consequences too. In New York, it means full support, but take a 1 hour flight east to Boston and all of that support leaves. Your support was left back in New York; the Boston fans will have a whole new way of responding to your hat. Generally, that response is hatred, booing, shouting, insults, you name it, they’ll say (not to say we don’t do that to Boston players in New York). Whatever way you look at it, the Yankees hat has more than one purpose. It means even more than other logos and other hats. The Yankees hat instills emotions that not many other pieces of clothing can. The feeling of fear won’t be found with every logo and the intense feeling of hatred won’t be found by others. This unique mix of so many emotions is what makes the hat so special and no matter who you are and how you look at it, you must have respect for what that one hat has, a million uses.
On July 27 1959, A new York attorney named William shea had an idea of putting a new baseball team in new York since the dodgers and giants had left for california.So on march 1st 1961 His wish was granted.The new York metropolitan baseball club or “the new York mets” were introduced into the national league.The name of the team was chosen by owner Joan Payson.The other names that were put into thought were the rebels, skyliners, nybs and avengers just to name a few.On April 11,1962 the mets played their first game in franchise history and lost 11-4 to the St Louis cardinals.The first season was a miserable one.Manager Casey Stengel led the mets to a 62-100 record,The worst record in major league history.After a couple of more losing seasons, The mets finally made a move and signed pitcher Tom “the franchise”Seaver,one of the best pitchers who ever played the game. They also picked up power hitting outfielders Donn Clendenon and Tommie Agee. Finally the mets looked like a baseball team.Entering the 1969 season, my father said the mets wewr 160-1 to win the World Series, but the mets shocked everyone winning the national league championship. Now, this is how the mets won their first world series, The batter was cleon Jones, after striking out manager Gil Hodges notices a black mark on the ball. The black mark was shoe polish. Putting shoe polish on the ball makes it spin more and makes it much easier to strike out a batter.
Through out the 1950s the Yankees experienced highs and lows but team remained arguably the ball club in all of Major League Baseball. In the 50s the team showed off tough unwavering determination to win even when some of their best players were missing from the line up. Although The Yankees didn’t win a World Series each year of this decade it is still hard to argue that they didn’t maintain their reign over professional baseball. At the start of the Yankees organization the team established one of the most storied and legendary histories ever in baseball and has built on it and will continue building on it for many days to come.
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“I found that the glove, as thin as it was, helped considerably, and inserted one pad after another until a good deal or relief was afforded” -Albert Spalding. Spalding had played on the Boston Red Stockings, today’s Red Sox, and pitched game after game and wore out his hands like all other players. So after he left the team, he managed and part owned the Chicago White Stockings, Today’s white Sox. In 1876 Spalding created and started selling the first professional baseball gloves. He sold them at his store, Spalding Sporting Goods, which he had opened earlier in 1876. After he had died in 1915 he was accepted into the Baseball Hall of Fame the year it opened in 1939. Albert Spalding created the first professional baseball glove, he applied past knowledge to innovate ways to prevent baseball injuries, and illuminated the world by making baseball safer.
One type of fallacy that appears in the introduction is a bandwagon which is defined as “the urge people follow the same path everyone else is taking” (Lunsford, Ruszkiewicz and Walters, 78). This occurs as bandwagon because, he says he felt conflicted, because he loved the Yankee’s and primarily wanted to get one of their hats, but he felt a misplaced loyalty to get a Cleveland Indians hat. Another type of fallacy that appears to be present in the article is Over Sentimental Appeal, which is defined as “tender emotions excessively to distract readers from facts” (Lunsford, Ruszkiewicz and Walters, 77). The use of this appeal appears in the first section where he tells of how his mother reacted after seeing him come home with that hat on his head. She felt a sense of betrayal from him. “Jerked it off my head… I was only 10 years old, but the look of betrayal in my Creek mother’s eyes is seared in my memory
Baseball was popular the most sport in 1919; players were seen as heroes and celebrities. At this time the players were payed very low wages and the owners of the team made huge profit. Because of this many players were into scams that involved them losing games on purpose. During that time of baseball, players didn’t make as much as they do today.Players would be offered large amount of money that would multiply to several times their salary.
On June 26th 1974, in Pequannock, New Jersey, Derek Sanderson Jeter was born. His parents were Charles Jeter and Dorothy Connors. His parents had a rare relationship for their time. Charles was african american and Dorothy was white. In the 1960s marriage of separate races was frowned upon but they loved each other and made it work. When Derek was still a small child, Charles moved the family to Kalamazoo, Michigan. This is where practically Dereks whole childhood took place.
Impact: Alexander Cartwright’s changes made the game faster-paced and more challenging while setting it apart from games like cricket and rounders. In 1846, the Knickerbockers (Cartwright’s team) played the first official game of baseball against a team of cricket players, beginning a new, uniquely American tradition. In a matter of years, baseball became a professional
Thesis statement: The Yankees Red Sox rivalry exemplifies loyalty and betrayal which is evident in the modernism literary movement.
players around the NFL. The number of athletes that protested would increase from a couple on each team to nearly all of them. With the only exception being, the Dallas Cowboys. Who as a team took a knee prior to the anthem, but would all stand during it. This was due to the owner Jerry Jones why has said that no player will sit or take a knee on his team or he would cut them, but more on that later. Then there was one other person that would not join his team in protest. That person was Pittsburgh Steelers player Alejandro Villanueva. Who is a former United States Army Ranger.
Before Earvin “Magic” Johnson and his group of investors took over the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Dodgers organization was in one of their darkest times. During the time Frank McCourt and his ex-wife, Jamie, the fans appreciation and attendance was at it lowest point since 2000. The attendance for the Dodgers plummeted 17% from the year before. They also lost 200 million dollars that McCourt used to bankroll his lavish lifestyle. During the whole divorce between Frank and Jami, fans were calling for them to leave and sell the team. Before McCourt finally decided to sell the team, fans were playing to boycott McCourt during the season. On the day the fans found out that McCourt was selling the team, fans were joyous with approval on a number of fronts. One fan and lead sports columnist of the Los Angeles Chaves said “Take a hike, Frank. Don’t let Chavez hit you in the Ravine on the way out” (Moore, 2011). The buzz in Los Angeles after the team was sold changed so much after the team was bought. "Now we're here. And now, everyone is wearing caps again," Johnson said. "The jackets. The T-shirts are out. I work out at Gold's [Gym]. I'm there at 5 or 6 in the morning, and everyone is talking about the Dodgers. We want this to be the happening place again. We want people to come out. Well, you can't do that unless you win, and now everyone's coming" (Bryant, 2013).
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Major League Baseball, much like the majority of other American institutions, was racially segregated. A color barrier was implemented during baseball’s infancy in order to separate people of different race to cater to the white American players. The color barrier was an unofficial “rule” that hindered those with dark skin from playing baseball for Major League teams. The color barrier was enforced by preventing any teams with a colored player from competing at the professional level. Many team owners, umpires, and players justified their opposition to allowing blacks to play by declaring that only whites could uphold the "gentlemanly character" of professional baseball. Others argued that excluding blacks would prevent future racial resentment between the ethnicities, as players of different races would be competing for the same job opportunities.
The fair weather fans are committed to one team and are only with the team they successful and are successful. Then loyalty to the team does not encompass during down time when the team is losing thus eroding their support for the team. They wear their team colors when their team is winning and are eager and always quick to point to the team’s victories. The opposite is ...
This is the team that Ruth, Gehrig and Mantle played for. Twenty-seven time world champions. The most valuable sports franchise in history. The ownership pays the top baseball players in the world over $200 million per year to ensure competitive ballgames and victory. They have more Hall of Fame inductees than any other team in history. The most recognized sports franchise in the world. People on the other side of the world would kill to see the Yankees and their favorite players right before their very eyes. The classiest organization in all of sports, even forbidding hair below the lower lip. The Yankees are forever being mentioned in pop-culture: songs, movies, television shows, etc. The Yankee hat is the most beloved and coveted piece of sports apparel that exists. From Nelson Mandela to Jay-Z, and from Rudy Giuliani to Muhammad Ali, some of the greatest and most influential men who have ever lived sport the Yankee cap with pride. Yankee Stadium is the cathedral of sports. The perfectly manicured grass and electricity of the crowd and fellow fans is breathtaking. You can explore the history in the Yankees Museum, where signed memorabilia, World Championship trophies, and other astonishing pieces of history are put on display for the fans. Or visit Monument Park, and pay visit to the plaques belonging to the greatest who have ever played. Hungry? Your choices are endless. Sit down for a five-course meal at NYY Steak for one of the best steaks that New York has to offer. Or stop at Lobel’s Gourmet Steak Sandwiches for some mouthwatering pulled pork. Enjoy a draft beer at the Malibu Rooftop Deck, while overlooking the Manhattan skyline; or order up a Hurricane from the Mohegan Sun Sports Bar and enjoy the game overlooking centerfield. And finally wash it all down with a delicious milkshake from Johnny Rocket’s. Yankee Stadium offers well over 100 concession and dining options. A trip to Yankee Stadium will
Certainly the behavior of baseball fans is insane. They wear their official team t-shirts and warm-up jackets to the mall, the store, the classroom, and, if they can get away with it, to work. Then, whenever the team offers a giveaway item, the fans rush out to get the roll-up hat, tote bag, or beer cooler offered that day .