blog 9...

In our mixed genre we decided to go away from immigration in baseball and go back to just blacks in baseball and how it first started. Im doing the diary part of it with Branch Rickey where im doing an interview of him through Howard Cosell one of the most famous commentators in the 50s through the 80s. I take quotes from Rickey Branch i found on the internet and make a fictional interview between the too its really in depth and i think will really inform people if you didnt know who either of these people were.

i wish i could have had a chance to cover the cuban defection part like in the last couple papers because i would have done a 1st person diary through the eyes of el dique when he was lost at sea for 3 days which i went over in my rp4 paper. im also doing the mixed genre part of our paper im going to take pictures that we found and put them on there. im also going to take qoutes from famous players or players like Jackie Robinson or Willie mays that had great significance. we have a youtube video from Ryan Howard that he discusses black baseball players in baseball.

kevin will be doing something similar so i will try not to over lap wuth what he has planned. it wont be like a regular paper its going ot be a lot of things put a page. pictures that re relevant and the wordle we learned how to do in class. our topic has been an issue for a while now with african americans in the majors dropped from 27% in the 70's to 9.5% in the present day but hasnt been brought in the public until a few weeks ago when tori hunter went out of his way to say that players from other countries arent better than black players there just cheaper to sign. Ozzie Guillen went on to counter that and say thats all cuban or latin american players know so thats why they do it and are good at it. were trying to fit that into are project because i feel like thats the biggest and hottest topic out there right now.