Tripp Hurd Staff Writer The UNCG Baseball team completed a weekend sweep of Lafayette on Saturday afternoon at UNCG Baseball Stadium. The three game series was scheduled to finish up on Sunday; however, the threat of rain caused Sunday’s game to turn into a double-header on Saturday. The Spartans have not had any trouble producing runs this season, and that continued this weekend, as they … Continue reading Spartans Sweep During Spring Break
Andrew Salmon Staff Writer The defending SoCon champion UNCG Spartans opened their 2018 campaign over the weekend with a three game series against Appalachian State. The Spartans won the first two games and dropped the third to bring their overall record to 2-1. It was an up-and-down series for UNCG, which dominated the first two games with a seemingly endless offensive output before falling to … Continue reading UNCG Baseball Kicks Off Season with Three Game Series Against Appalachian State
Daniel Johnson Sports Editor MLB Player’s Data reported at the beginning of the 2017 baseball season that about one-third of the players in the Major Leagues were from Latin America (31.9 percent). Forty two and a half percent of the players in the game were people of color, while the other 57.5 percent are white Americans. Now based on the numbers, it would be safe … Continue reading Baseball’s Modern Culture Divide: ‘The Right Way’
Daniel Johnson Sports Editor Prior to the 1995 MLB season, the Los Angeles Dodgers signed 27 year old Japanese pitching superstar Hideo Nomo. Though Nomo was not the first Japanese player to play in the pros, (he was second, Masanori Murakami played for the San Francisco Giants from 1964-65) he quickly became the best that had played in the U.S. to that point. His instant … Continue reading The Negro League After Jackie Robinson
Chelsea McBay Staff Writer Baseball season is right around the corner, folks. After a very successful season last year, the baseball team is looking to improve and perform even better this year. With a lot of new freshman, solid returning players and stable coaching, it should be a good team to watch and follow. UNCG is looking so good in fact that they have been … Continue reading Baseball Season Preview
Brayden Stamps Staff Writer In this past week, the Cleveland Indians officially announced that the iconic and controversial “Chief Wahoo” logo will be phased out of the teams visual identity entirely by the year 2019. This decision, that is being enforced by the current commissioner of the MLB, Rob Manfred, is the final blow in a long battle that was put into motion in 2014 … Continue reading The “Chief” Concern in Cleveland
Daniel Johnson Sports Editor Chadwick Boseman’s portrayal of Jackie Robinson in the 2013 biopic, “42,” illustrated the realities of being an African American ballplayer when the color barrier was first broken. Pitchers threw at Robinson in an attempt to seriously injure him at the plate. He was spiked and kicked at by players when sliding into base. And, as shown in an uncomfortably, well acted … Continue reading Minor League Racism: Racial Abuse at Teens trying to make the Majors
Daniel Johnson Staff Writer The All-Star Game has come and past in Major League Baseball, marking the end of the end of first half of the MLB season and the beginning of the postseason push for many teams over the final two months of the regular season. And the first three and a half months of the baseball season saw teams from both the National … Continue reading MLB First Half: Looking Back and Forward
Michael Fields Staff Writer The men’s baseball team had a big home series against conference foe East Tennessee State University. UNCG was trying to stay atop of the SoCon standings and continue to excel in conference play. With a weekend home series against conference rivals East Tennessee State University, the blue and gold swept their visitors to stay firmly on top of the … Continue reading Successful sweep for UNCG Baseball
Andrew James Staff Writer It’s finally April—that time of the year again. The sunlit grass in the outfield is ready to burn under spiked cleats; the sound of a baseball crashing into the padded leather catcher’s mitt is becoming music again. After slogging through another Spring Training, we finally have made it to the games that count—we finally get to tune into our … Continue reading MLB Preview
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