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Period 5, English
March 24, 2009
Rube Goldberg Project: English Portion

What is a metaphor?
A metaphor is a comparison between two things that seem unalike, but have a quality in common, without using the words like or as.

What is a simile?
A metaphor is a comparison between two things that seem unalike, but have a quality in common, using the words like or as.

What is an idiom?
An idiom is a figure of speech, not meant to be taken literally.

(Be warned, there are some VERY BAD puns in here too.)

1. 1839-Abner Doubleday is credited with inventing baseball in Cooperstown, New York.
Cooperstown, New York was a small pond until Abner Doubleday invented a sport, from scratch, that would change the world forever. (Metaphor and Idiom)

2. 1845-Alexander Joy Cartwright develops the rules of baseball.
Alexander Joy Cartwright was like a great composer, rearranging the rules of baseball until they fit perfectly to create a sport, which needed a dry run first. (Simile and Idiom)

3.1846-The first official game of baseball is played between the Knickerbockers and a group of cricket players. Alexander Joy Cartwright’s Knickerbockers lost to the New York Baseball Club. The game was played in Elysian Fields in Hoboken, NJ.
The Knickerbockers’ field day soon turned into a day that was as long as eternity, when they slowly lost the first game of baseball to the New York Baseball Club. (Idiom and Simile)

4. 1876 - National League is established, with William Hulbert as president.
The National League was a new chapter in the book of baseball, with William Hulbert as the protagonist. (Metaphor and Simile)

5. 1900-The American League is established. It was originally called the Western League. At first is was a minor league, but became a major league in early 1901.
Everyone thought the American League becoming a major league was just tongue in cheek until it became a reality; the American League was no longer an infant amongst giants. (Idiom and Metaphor)

6. 1903-The Boston Americans and the Pittsburgh Pirates play the first World Series, with the Americans winning the best out of nine series 5-3.
The teams had adrenaline coursing through their veins like a river flooding a gurgling stream, the excitement mounting as the first pitch was thrown faster than a New York Minute. (Simile and Idiom)

7. 1918-The "Star-Spangled Banner" is sung at a baseball game for the first time, during the 7th inning of the 1918 Worlds Series, which featured the Boston Red Sox and the Chicago Cubs.
As the “Star-Spangled Banner” was sung, the pride in the stadium was overflowing the pot it was in and spilling unto the rest of the country, which looked at the novel tradition as eagerly as a watching cliffhanger in a movie, awaiting what would happen next. (Metaphor and Simile)

8. 1919-In the most famous scandal in baseball history eight players from the Chicago White Sox are accused of throwing the World Series against the Cincinnati Reds.
The queered pitch of the Chicago White Sox became infamous almost overnight and stained baseball’s untarnished slate as severly as a blow to the face. (Idiom and simile)

9. 1920 -The first successful organized Negro League is established at a YMCA in Kansas City, Missouri. Andrew “Rube” Foster was the driving force behind the organization of this league and served as its president. The Negro Leagues ended in 1952.
The fence that was the barrier between races, without a doubt, took a shake when the first successful Negro League was established, infuriating some of the baseball community. (Metaphor and idiom)

10. 1933-Major League Baseball's first All-Star game is played, as part of the 1933 World’s Fair in Chicago, Illinois.
During the 1933 World’s Fair in Illinois, the sky filled with stars became the field and the game became as clear a memory as yesterday for many who attended.(Metaphor and Simile)

11. 1936
The Baseball Hall of Fame inducts its first five players, Ty Cobb, Honus Wagner, Walter Johnson, Babe Ruth, and Christy Mathewson.
Well known players should have felt they were out on the town when inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame; an honor as great as winning the Olympics. (Idiom and Simile)
12. 1947
Jackie Robinson makes his Major League debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking the color barrier.
Jackie Robinson entered the Major League, shattering the glass that was the thin barrier between races and showing the other teams they have an axe to grind in competition. (Metaphor and Simile)

13. 1969
Curt Flood refuses trade to the Phillies, starting a long legal battle against baseball's reserve clause, beginning free agency in baseball.


14. 1974
Hank Aaron breaks Babe Ruth's career homerun record with his 715th career homerun, on April 8, in Atlanta, off of Dodger’s pitcher Al Downing. Aaron had received thousands of death threats during his chase of the record.


15. 1992
The “Steroid Era” in baseball begins (believed to have begun around 1992, no specific date of beginning).