Baseball Heroes

Baseball Heroes



Modern superstar Alex Rodriguez

Babe Ruth






Baseball Heroes can come in many different shapes forms and sizes. In baseball you can be a hero in many different ways, one way is that you could lead your team to a championship and be the leagues MVP. Like such superstars as Babe Ruth, who were baseballs heros in the early 1900's. And now there are heros that are taking shape in the modern era like Alex Rodriguez, Joe Mauer, Albert Pujols, Chase Utley, Derek Jeter, Matt Holiday, Manny Ramierez, Vladamir Guerrero, David Ortiz, Johan Santana, Josh Beckett, Cliff Lee, Joe Nathan and many many more.


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Babe Ruth's Curse I

The Trade & The Curse
Author: Joe Pickering, Jr.Recorded: 1990Publisher: King of the Road Music

OUR RED SOX NOW LEAD BY A COUNTRY MILESTILL FEAR GRIPS OUR HEARTS THE CROWD WEARS NO SMILEBABE'S CURSE IS WITH US ALL CLOUDS GROW DARKIT'S WORLD SERIES TIME AT OLD FENWAY PARK
THAT'S NOT DISTANT THUNDER I HEAR FROM THE SKYBUT MISTER BABE RUTH STEPPING DOWN FROM ON HIGHBABE'S COMING TO PLAY WITH HIS BAT AND HIS BALLTO MAKE SURE WE DON'T WIN THE SERIES THIS FALL
CHORUS
HEY MISTER BABE PLEASE GIVE US A BREAKHOW MUCH MORE CAN THE RED SOX FANS TAKEIN THE ANNALS OF BASEBALL NONE CAN BE WORSETHAN THE TERRIBLE TALE OF BABE RUTH'S CURSE
IN THE SERIES OF '18 BASE STRODE TO THE MOUNDAND PROCEEDED TO MOW THE CHICAGO CUBS DOWNBUT THAT'S THE LAST SERIES THE SOX EVER WONSOON BABE RUTH WAS TRADED, THE DIRTY DEED DONE
THE BABE GRABBED THE TRAIN AND LEFT SAD OLD BEANTOWNTO BUILD UP THE YANKEES AND TEAR THE SOX DOWNALL THE FANS AGREE, THE TRADE WAS A SINBUT IT WASN'T OUR FAULT BABE SO PLEASE LET US WIN!!

REPEAT CHORUS TWICE

Kirk Gibsons Historical Walk-off Home-Run in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series








Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan



2008 AL Batting Champion Joe Mauer









Pete Rose
Hall of Famer Ted Williams






Great Quotes From Baseball Players




“Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.”-Yogi Berra







"Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game. to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.”-Ted Williams






"Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you."-Satchel Paige

"Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is." -Bob Feller

"I'm never satisfied. I can't stand satisifaction. To me, greatness comes from that quest for perfection."- Mike Schmidt

Lou Gehrig's Farewell Speech-July 4th 1939 in Yankee Stadium

"Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. I have been in ballparks for seventeen years and I have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans. Look at these grand men. Which of you wouldn't consider it the highlight of his career just to associate with them for even one day? Sure I'm lucky. Who wouldn't have considered it an honor to have known Jacob Ruppert? Also, the builder of baseball's greatest empire, Ed Barrows? To have spent six years with that wonderful little fellow, Miller Huggins? Then to have spent the next nine years with that outstanding leader, that smart student of psychology, the best manager in baseball today, Joe McCarthy? Sure, I'm lucky. When the New York Giants, a team you would give your right arm to beat and vice versa, sends you a gift, that's something. When everybody down to the groundskeeper and those boys in white coats remember you with trophies, that's something. When you have a father and mother work all their lives so that you can have an education and build your body, it's a blessing. When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed, that's the finest I know. I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth. And I might have been given a bad break, but I've got an awful lot to live for." - July 4, 1939 at Yankee Stadium on Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day

Kirby Puckett: A Tribute To a Minnesota Hero

What I learned about heroes is that heroes can come in any type, and even that heroes dont have to be remembered as anything it can just be someone ordinary.

Conclusion:

While studying Baseball Heroes, I learned that there are three main categories of heroes in baseball: baseball players who lead a team to championships and are just phenominal baseball players and athletes, and players who can get a clutch hit in an important game and now the more modern baseball heroes that we watch today. In baseball if you lead your team to a championship you will always be remembered as a hero and you if youre good enough you can be an MVP or even a hall of famer. Such players under that category are Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, Nolan Ryan, Kirby Puckett, Lou Gehrig, Mike Schmidt, Bob Feller and much more. Another way to become a baseball hero is to win the game in a clutch situation like hitting a walkoff homerun. The most memorable walkoff homerun is from Game 1 of the 1988 World Series when Kirk Gibson hit a homerun and won the game for the Dodgers. The Last category of heroes are the modern day heroes that make the game what it is today. The game is filled with future hall of famers and superstars that will always make the game great and there are still many more to come.