Sports History and Sports Halls of Fame
Below are websites dealing with sports history, particularly those halls of fame which exist. In the dead of winter, many people's interest turn to sports, and the nominees and inductees are announced for many halls, including professional baseball and professional football.
Professional Baseball Hall of Fame http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/ This website discusses the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. The site combines baseball history and the Hall of Fame itself. The rotating exhibits at the museum are prominently featured, along with the members of the Hall. The site also discusses the rules for induction. Among the items available for the Hall of Fame members are their lifetime statistics, their biographies, pictures of their plaques, and desktop wallpaper. For those interested in analyzing the history of baseball elections, the results of the past votes are available. An online catalog of the museum's holdings is accessible here. The baseball history here is good, if sometimes not overly evaluative. The exhibits at the museum are also portrayed, and among the current exhibits are one on Ichiro Suzuki and another on Sports Illustrated. Information about visits is here as well.
Basketball Hall of Fame http://www.hoophall.com/ This hall of fame (located in Springfield, Massachusetts), unlike baseball and football's hall of fames, represents all of basketball in one hall. (The other halls have separate halls for college and professional). Among the items on the site are information about the Hall of Famers, running from James Naismith, who invented basketball, to Medowlark Lemon, to Phog Allen, to Lynette Woodward. Five whole teams are also honored as members, including the Harlem Globetrotters, the New York Rens and the Buffalo Germans. Three people, Lenny Wilkens, Bill Sharman and John Wooden, are honored both as players and as coaches. The history here, outside of the hall, is generally good if not extensive and includes interesting sections on the original rules of basketball and the story of how the Hall of Fame was founded.
Pro Football Hall of Fame http://www.profootballhof.com/ This hall of fame, located in Canton, Ohio, honors the game of pro football. The site includes information about visiting the hall, the history of the hall, and the hall of famers. Like most other halls, it lists the inductees, provides short biographies of them, and details the induction process. Information about this year's class is featured prominently, as the finalists were just announced. History of the NFL is provided, although it is not featured prominently.
1910 to 1920 was the one of the greatest decades for Major League Baseball. Many amazing events occurred during this decade; although, some devastating and extremely sad events also occurred. Half of these years were taken up by war, even many Hall of Fame players served. This decade still ended up being a great one for Major League Baseball. From Hall of Fame greats to Negro League pitchers, this decade produced greats. The 1910’s also set up the 1920’s for amazing players too.
According to American National Biography, Marilyn Monroe was formerly known as Norma Jeane Mortenson. She was an American actress and model. Her mom, Gladys Pearl Baker was a flapper, and was unstable and was not ready for a child so she had financial problems with Marilyn Monroe. After Monroe's birth, Baker placed monroe with Ida and Albert Bolender. They raised their foster kids with a strict Christian perspective. When her mom felt stable enough and decided to take Monroe back and live in Hollywood, until she had a psychotic breakdown and was later diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. After her breakdown Baker spent the rest of her life in and out of institutions and
Looking at self-development, she has successfully done so beginning by working in an airplane factory while her first husband was on duty overseas, she was noticed by one of the officers who encouraged her to model which led her to sign with The Blue Book Modelling Agency. Conformity played a huge role in her identity; since in order to fit their needs, Mortenson dyed her hair blonde and changed her name to a seductive one, “Marilyn Monroe”. Her beauty quickly got her successful and noticed. After some time, she landed a contract with Twentieth Century Fox which jump started her acting career. Her seductiveness and dramatic abilities caught the publ...
The Wampanoag first encountered the new settlers in 1621 and at fist they stayed hidden as they looked upon these new people. Chief Massasoit went against the majority’s desire to finish off the English that had lost 45 people during the harsh winter and were struggling to survive. Chief Massasoit had come to power by gaining his peoples respect and leading by example. Massasoit had been deeply affected by the horrific loss of his people to unhappy spirits. Massasoit knew the English came from a land of great wealth and military power. In his mind he thought he could manage this small group of religious pioneers and it would be mutually beneficial. The Wampanoag’s first appearance to the puritans consisted of them asking for a hostage to negotiate a peace treaty and alliance. Edward Winslow was 25, a widower, and had nothing to lose. Winslow conveyed the pilgrims’ desire for peace and their christianly love towards their neighbors. This message was ...
So, in conclusion John Calvin and Martin Luther have many different ideas. It is thought that the generation gap between John Calvin and Martin Luther contributed to some of the their philosophical differences. Even though, both men had few similar beliefs, they both felt strongly about the need to change The Catholic Church for the better.
John Calvin and Martin Luther felt that the Catholic churches were doing wrong. The popes would try to control the churches and did wrong by taking the churches’ money. They both believed that truth comes from the Bible. They didn’t swear or use God’s name in vain. One big similarity was that they didn’t believe in the teachings of the Catholic churches.
When someone speaks of Marilyn Monroe most people think she was nothing other than a woman who slept her way to the top. Of course she had her faults, but there are a variety of traits to describe her rather than just her sexual appeal. Marilyn was an iconic model, singer and actress who passed away too soon from unknown causes. She became a popular, enthusiastic actress and her films produced over 200 million dollars. Although, many people seen her as scandalous, she was more than that, she faced many troubling situations before her rise to the top only to be defeated by a sudden death.
First, Marilyn Monroe died from an overdose in her home in Los Angeles, CA.{Wikipedia} Marilyn Monroe suffered from depression which probably has something to do with her overdose. Doctor believed that it was Barbiturate overdose.A Barbiturate is a medication that make you sleepy and calm down. Second, Marilyn Monroe has as many fans now as she did when she died in 1962. Marilyn Monroe still has many people who idolize her and see her as an inspiration. Third, Marilyn Monroe influenced people with fashion, body size and equality to women. Marilyn was not a size zero and she showed people that you didn’t have to be to be able to get a guy. She also said that women’s jobs were not to be in the house all the time. Marilyn Monroe wasn’t just a pretty face but a inspiration to
Monroe went to live with her mom’s good friend. She stayed with her for a long time until she got sent away again. She got tired of living in foster care so she decided to get married at sixteen years old. His name was Jim Dougherty and he was twenty-one years old. The marriage lasted until she was twenty. Then they divorced and she started modeling. During this time is when she started doing magazines and photo shoots. Monroe also started bleaching her hair blonde around this time. Then she started to use the name Marilyn Monroe instead of Norma Jeane. She signed to Fox after passing her screen test. This is when her acting career started and was just the beginning of her legacy.
Marilyn was born as Norma Jeane Mortensen on June 1, 1926. She was born in Los Angeles, California to her mother Gladys Pearl Baker, but she never knew who her father was. When Marilyn’s mother was institutionalized, she was put into foster care; through most of her early years, she was either in foster care or an orphanage. When she got a little older, she moved in with Grace and Doc Goddard, a very religious and stern couple. They shielded Marilyn and would not let her go to the movies. After living with them for a few years, the Goddard family moved to the East Coast and they were unable to bring Marilyn with them. She was then sent back into foster care, where she had a tremendously rough time. Marilyn was sexually assaulted and she wanted to get out of foster care as soon as possible. To accomplish this, she knew she needed to get married (BIO. Marylin Monroe).
Probably the most celebrated of all actresses, Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jean Mortenson on June 1, 1926, in Los Angeles General Hospital. Prior to her birth, Marilyn's father bought a motorcycle and headed north to San Francisco, abandoning the family in Los Angeles. Marilyn grew up not knowing for sure who her father really was. Her mother, Gladys, had entered into several relationships, further confusing her daughter as to who it was who fathered her. Afterward, Gladys gave Norma Jean (Marilyn) the name of Baker, a boyfriend she had before Mortenson. Poverty was a constant companion to Gladys and Norma. Gladys, who was extremely attractive and worked for RKO Studios as a film cutter, suffered from mental illness and was in and out of mental institutions for the rest of her life, and because of that Norma Jean spent time in foster homes. When she was nine she was placed in an orphanage where she was to stay for the next two years. Upon being released from the orphanage, she went to yet another foster home. In 1942, at the age of 16, Norma Jean married 21-year-old aircraft plant worker James Dougherty. The marriage only lasted four years, and they divorced in 1946. By this time Marilyn began to model swimsuits and bleached her hair blonde. Various shots made their way into the public eye, where some were eventually seen by RKO Pictures head Howard Hughes. He offered Marilyn a screen test, but an agent suggested that 20th Century-Fox would be the better choice for her, since it was a much bigger and more prestigious studio. She was signed to a contract at $125 per week for a six-month period and that was increased by $25 per week at the end of that time when her contract was lengthened.
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In 1936, five of the best baseball players know in the United States were elected into the first induction class. Ty Cobb, Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, Honus Wagner, and Babe Ruth were the first players in Major League Baseball history to be recognized for their outstanding achievements. These five men, along with 301 other Major League Baseball players, have been elected into the MLB Hall of Fame in the span of 75 years, but how many of these players have “cheated” their way into this historical museum which is meant to honor only the best of the best players. A rule which bans any player from the Hall of Fame and removes any player already in the Hall of Fame that has evidence or admitted to using illegal substances while playing in the major leagues should be set in place.
“ I knew I belong to the public and to the world not because I was talented or even beautiful but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.” Marilyn knew what her life was when she gave up her life for her career. Following this will be the real life of Marilyn Monroe, what she went through in her childhood and her professional life, her career, her affair, her death, and her legacy.
How did sports "both reflect and influence" North Carolinian society from the late nineteenth century to the 1970s? During this era, athletics in college, basketball in particular, proved that many native-born citizens became Americans through participation in sports in which their accomplishments merited praise. Sports effectuated life lessons learned as well as cultural values, including teamwork and sportsmanship. Race and gender played an enormous role in the history of sports.