1. The first image that I am using is at a rally in which a woman is holding a sign that says, “Ours is a Country of Immigrants”. I want to start with this because my argument basically is that immigration and baseball are perhaps the two most important aspects of US society. The woman holding the sign is Latina, so she either is an immigrant herself or someone in her family history was (like all of us), so I think that it is an effective image.
2. This picture is of people getting off of the ships at Ellis Island in the early 1900s. I want to show how immigration has changed since the early days, and this is the way to do it. Today, people come in illegally or have to go through a visa process, but back then people risked death, disease, and uncertainty just to get a piece of the American Dream. This image shows how this country was essentially built on that dream.
3. This cartoon represents my “and this is what immigration looks like today…” thought to follow the image of Ellis Island. It pokes fun at the difficulties that this legal process gives immigrants, and also shows how it is contradictory to the original American values.
4. This image is very interesting because the white man holding the “stop the invasion” sign is staring back at a group of guys who, once again, are either immigrants or second generation Americans. Not only does this show the awkwardness of the situation, but it reveals that some people are anti-immigration. This sort of segues me into the basis of my argument.
5. I think that this picture of the baseball mitt, glove, and ball on the American flag exemplify America, in a picture. My lead-in to my argument based on the last slide is basically “I wonder what his favorite baseball team is…”, because baseball is America’s pastime. Today, it seems hypocritical to be anti-immigration and pro-baseball—like the two concepts of baseball and immigration are irrevocably intertwined, and every fan of baseball must be lenient towards immigration law. This is sort of personal opinion, but it is my presentation.
6. This picture allows me to get in on the argument. I’m still deciding if it helps my argument in anyway besides being something that I like to look at, but it is a photo of my bedroom wall and my fanatical shrine to the White Sox. I think that it establishes me as a crazy fan that has a [somewhat] knowledgeable opinion on the matter of immigration in baseball, but also baseball’s general importance to people and the country. It also leads me into the next slide by showing what the dream is for wannabe MLB players (maybe not exactly to be on my bedroom wall, but to be a part of the things depicted on said wall…)
7. This photo is of a 16-year-old Dominican prospect named Miguel Angel Sano and his family. He just signed a contract with the Minnesota Twins (poor choice) and received the largest signing bonus for a non-Cuban Latin American Player. However, the importance of this picture is that his family surrounding on him clearly looks at him as their only hope. Sano represents the dream of escaping poverty that I focus on in my paper.
8. This picture was taken at some sort of anti-immigration soiree because the sign says “Save American Jobs Support H-2B”. This introduces the idea of h-2b visas with their quotas that limit immigration, and also the way in which Americans fear for their jobs because of immigration. Minor league players, like Sano will be one day, need these visas in order to play baseball in the US. They are increasingly difficult to get.
9. On the other side of the Dominican players’ struggle is their own government. This picture is of Angel Luis Joseph, a Dominican baseball player whose parents were born in Haiti. He could not get a visa in the US because his own government would not give him his birth certificate in order to apply for one. This is an interesting twist on the immigration argument that most people are unaware of, and it is keeping him from his dream.
10. At the end of the immigration ordeal are players like this man, David Ortiz. He is one of the Dominican “it boys”—having made it to the US to enjoy a successful career. This image serves as “the light at the end of the tunnel” for the other stories that I have brought up. I'll also throw some information in about the p-1 visas that players like him get to use, only once they are called up to the big leagues.
11. This is an image of a newspaper clip that pictures Jackie Robinson shaking hands with his new manager. I feel like you can’t talk about people like David Ortiz without talking about Jackie Robinson. Even though he is not African American, David Ortiz’s skin color have kept him from playing baseball in the Major Leagues if it were not for Jackie Robinson. This slide serves to show where baseball has moved from in the past 60+ years.
12. This photo is a roster photo of the Brooklyn Dodgers after Robinson joined the team. I like it because you can clearly tell what the complexion of baseball was before he came along. If you looked at the Dodgers’ roster today, it would obviously look very different. This lead to many changes in baseball, which I begin to discuss after this slide.
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