Fanny Varain Period 6 The First Transcontinental Railroad The First Transcontinental Railroad was a 1‚907-mile railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 across the western United States to connect the Pacific coast at San Francisco Bay with the existing Eastern U.S. rail network at Council Bluffs‚ Iowa. It was built by three private companies: the original Western Pacific Railroad Company‚ the Central Pacific Railroad Company of California‚ and the Union Pacific Railroad Company
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end of 1996‚ Under Armour had sold 500 Under Armour shirts‚ making $17‚000. In 1997‚ Plank had $100‚000 in orders to fill and found a factory in Ohio to make the shirts. People began to notice the brand when a front page photo of USA Today featured Oakland Raiders quarterback Jeff George wearing an Under Armour mock turtleneck. Following that front page‚ Under Armour’s first major sale came from Georgia Tech they asked Plank for 10 shirts. This deal with the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets opened the door
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The film Moneyball was based on the bestselling non-fiction book by financial journalist Michael Lewis‚ the film tells the true story of how Beane and his youthful economics-whiz assistant turned around the fortunes of the Oakland Athletics by using a new approach called "sabermetrics". This involved using statistics to analyze how many times players stayed "on base" (thereby increasing their likelihood to score runs)‚ rather than relying on the traditional method of valuing players’ batting average
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inspiration to all of us that through hard work and perseverance anything is possible. As a child Debbi loved to bake cookies. She got the baking bug and a "taste" for entrepreneurship at the early age of 13 while working her first job with the Oakland A ’s baseball organization. An important lesson learned from her family was that everyone needs to feel important. When Debbi was 19 years old she married‚ a Stanford graduate‚ and found herself in the unsatisfying role of a housewife. She found
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are one of the most business savvy organizations in all of professional sports. The team entertains one of the loudest and most supportive crowds in the NBA. At this point in time they are currently in the process of moving from the Oracle Arena in Oakland to a water front stadium off the San Francisco pier. This paper will outline the marketing research that has been done thus far‚ and how that could impact the organization positively or negatively. Finally‚ the paper will include any additional ways
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“If every sports team in Chicago were to suddenly disappear‚ the impact on the Chicago economy would be a fraction of 1 percent. A baseball team has about the same impact on a community as a mid sized department store‚” (Leed). Economist always talk about how sports have no positive impact on community‚ only negative‚ and when teams want to move‚ they only talk about the positives of bringing the teams. I found some articles and graphs to answer my question of how do professional sports teams affect
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baseball and is compared to other sports movies with great “feel-good” winning moments such as “Miracle”‚ “Remember The Titans” and “Field of Dreams”. Unlike these other feel good sports movies about the underdogs and teams with spirit and heart‚ the Oakland A’s won because of statistics and analytics. This movie delves into the inner workings of baseball and how Billy Beane literally changed the game. When compared to the Bloomberg article about other baseball teams trying to accomplish
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statistical methods of evaluating players. For instance‚ noted statistician Bill James did his research as an outsider to baseball front offices in the 1980s and 1990s‚ until he was hired in 2003 by the Boston Red Sox. Undoubtedly it was the success of Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane and the popularity of the book (and now movie) Moneyball that made it acceptable
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because it has so many great parts in it but this is definitely a movie I would refer people to watch for fun or even to learn about the power moves that happen in the movie. This movie was about a baseball team‚ not just any baseball team but the Oakland A’s; a team that was down recently after they had lost to the Yankees in playoffs the year before. They lost 3 stars in the offseason and didn’t have much money to get more top notch talent on their team. So at first they panicked‚ general manager
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Mickey Mantle had the classic addictive personality Mickey Mantle was born in Spavinaw‚ Oklahoma. His father‚ an amateur player and fervent fan‚ named him in honor of Mickey Cochrane‚ the Hall of Fame catcher from the Philadelphia Athletics. Even though his father was exhausted after long day’s work‚ he still pitched batting practice him baseball. He wanted Mickey to become the baseball player he himself had not been. Mickey Mantle joined the Yankees at 19. His father died of cancer at the age of
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