ipl-logo

Descriptive Essay On Chicago

661 Words3 Pages

Chicago played the final game against Cleveland it was the 10th inning and the cubs need 3 more outs to win. Cleveland hits the ball the cubs catch the ball throw it to second base then first. The Chicago cubs beats the Cleveland indians 8-7, it has been 108 years since they won in 1908. In Chicago at Wrigley Field everybody went crazy they all were jumping, screaming, and crying that day because Chicago made history.

The people in chicago had a parade on that friday to celebrate the champions on 2016 world series. They have a lot of bandwagon now like lebron james. Tons of people had crazy bets that they lost and posted it on social media. They sold so many cubs t shirts, jersey, and posters that made them get a lot of profit. For nosebleed seats at the stadium was $2,000. IN south chicago they shot guns and …show more content…

I saw so many posts on facebook about the cubs winning and saying they were the fans since day one i started laughing because i knew most of them are lies.
My favorite team is the white sox but i was rooting for the cubs because there the other chicago team. I will admit that they had a good roster and good plays this season they played as hard as they can and won. What inspired me was that they never quit when it seemed like they were going to lose. David Ross last game was on November 2 and retired like a champion, it was a good way to leave the MLB that night.

They are selling World series hats from $30-$80 at the mall, posters at Toys R us for $10. They started to play the cubs song that night on my street for 20 minutes straight. My favorite game was Cubs vs Dodgers, Chicago won by 8-4. Chicago Cubs fans finally get to see them win the world series in 2016. Next season will be crazy if the white sox win world

Show More
Related
767 Words | 4 Pages

Robinson and the Dodgers broke the home attendance record they had set the previous year. They also broke single-game attendance records in every National League ballpark they played in during the 1947

Read More
1977 Words | 8 Pages

The players went through trial and even though they were acquitted and were happy, it didn't last long because less than 24 hours later they were banned for life. The aftermath of the Black Sox Scandal and life after

Read More
852 Words | 4 Pages

“Regardless of verdict of juries, no player who throws a ball game, no player who undertakes or promises to throw a game, no player who sits in conference with a bunch of crooked players and gamblers where the ways and means of throwing a ball game are discussed and does not properly tell his club about it, will ever play professional baseball again. " This statement was made official by Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis in regards to the Black Sox World Series Scandal in from 1920-1920. The film Eight Men Out informs audiences about the Black Sox Scandal from all aspects, including: the people involved, the creation of the commissioner, and all the way until the verdict and later the death of Buck Weaver. The story behind this scandal deals with changes that would effect all aspects of baseball history,

Read More
530 Words | 3 Pages

The team was very good , they had good players and they played the games well .They won the championships in the years 1906 and 1917. “The 1906 White Sox team were known as the Hitless wonders because they were on a hot momentum”. The team had been in fourth place during the beginning of the season and a half games behind the defending champion Philadelphia Athletics, when they went on a winning streak with a record 19 wins no losses that drove them into first place and winning the word series. Winning the World series is important because it shows that the team is the best.

Read More
271 Words | 2 Pages

Can people say that the Chicago Cubs are the best team in MLB right now? Well they have won the World Series and they have not done that in over a century. Could that convince you that they are the best in the league? Baseball is a hard sport and to think that a team can do a century without a World Series win seems statistically impossible but it has happened to one team in the MLB and that is the Chicago Cubs. Why has it been so long for the Cubs to win a championship?

Read More
1587 Words | 7 Pages

In his confession forty years later he highlighted that even an ordinary person told him that he knew firsthand of the series being fixed. It seemed like everyone knew, yet nobody was sure. It wasn’t clear, who bribed whom. Smith then sheds light on the White Sox, who were a match for anything Cincinnati could throw against them. While, the tragic prelude is still difficult for the historians to piece together, however according to the book, Eight Men Out, Chick Gandil collaborated with Joseph Sullivan, a Boston sports gambler and initiated the Scandal of fixing the series.

Read More
441 Words | 2 Pages

At the conclusion of a postseason that saw more home runs than ever before, a few upsets and fanatical fan bases, an unbelievable World Series came to an end on Wednesday. The high number of postseason home runs kept leaving parks in a Series packed with crazy comebacks, high and low scoring games, stolen bases for tacos and even a marriage proposal. With all that wackiness, did this year’s World Series featuring the Houston Astros and Los Angeles Dodgers somehow surpass the drama from last year’s World Series between the Cleveland Indians and Chicago Cubs? Some fans and pundits speculated that Game 2 of the Dodgers-Astros series was the greatest World Series game of all time with six combined home runs coming after the ninth inning of Houston’s

Read More
1223 Words | 5 Pages

Pass figured a Chicago victory was worth a $3,000 investment.” (Asinof 41) What the White Sox did to their fans was something that will haunt fans forever. Back in the early 1900s (1910-1930) when baseball was starting to produce stars and attract fans it was a huge part of American life. Baseball was one of the only things in an Americans life that was consistent.

Read More
1420 Words | 6 Pages

The 1955 world series was between the Dodgers and the Yankees. This is important because the teams were huge rivals. The teams both won three of the series of games and then finally the Dodgers won the last one with a score of 4-3. The Dodgers also had a record of 17 home runs in the first

Read More
516 Words | 3 Pages

How the 1919 World Series Effected Life In The 20s The 1920s was a rough era for America. It had many events and things that made it a rough time in history and difficult to live in that day and age. One of the major events that set off the 1920s depression era was the 1919 World Series.

Read More
1939 Words | 8 Pages

Chicago Cubs Introduction The Chicago Cubs are a Professional American Baseball Team that competes in the Sports and Entertainment Industry. Tom Ricketts and family bought the Chicago Cubs along with Wrigley Field from the Tribune Company in 2007. The Chicago Cubs are one of the oldest franchises to this day. They are known for their old school ballpark right in the middle of a neighborhood, and the fans are known to party.

Read More
1698 Words | 7 Pages

The all-star game started in 1933 and the game was play every summer at Chicago’s Comiskey Park. It was considered more important than the World

Read More
776 Words | 4 Pages

Facing their arch-rival, the Chicago Bears, the Lions lost in the remaining minutes of the game, but it grew enough support to continue on the tradition and win over the

Read More
189 Words | 1 Pages

One night, during the cold winter, I walked along the side walk to reach the local store down the block. As I walked out, before I can realize it, I was dropping down onto the concrete while bullets swiftly passed me. I then began to run back home, but I wanted to keep running. Away from Chicago, away from the west side. Growing up in Chicago, it was easy to assume that there was nothing different beyond the blocks of my streets.

Read More
434 Words | 2 Pages

It was a show of power several years ago when the Major League Baseball (MLB) players ' association went on strike in September just before the World Series started. The MLB player 's association had more power during September just before playoffs than they would have had at any prior time because this is the time where the owners would be financially impacted. This source of power was thanks to reward power which is the ability for employees (in this case the players) to have leverage of their boss (the owners) due to the ability to influence the owners pay as well as being able to influence fan perception. When the players strike there is the chance that fans will become disgruntled and not attend games will not watch as often, and

Read More

More about Descriptive Essay On Chicago

Related Topics

Open Document