U.S.A where the MLB and base ball were created-No.4

Masakazu Kimura

 

 

 

 

 

 

              Some people, who have curiosity to Major League baseball, know what happened in July 24^th 2012. Ichiro, one of the best player in MLB and is the Hero of not only Seattle Mariners’ fan but also Japanese citizens, moved from Seattle Mariners to New York Yankees. This movement made MLB fans shocked and simultaneously, Japanese people were shocked that he was kicked out from Mariners and taken by Yankees. For people who know Ichiro, they had a concept that is Ichiro = the best Japanese baseball player who succeed in MLB = # 51 in Seattle Mariners, but this concept were banished. As a matter of course. Ichiro is doing well in Yankees and still he is one of the best players. For the first points, Seattle Mariners kicked Ichiro out because Mariners wanted to be refreshed the players, so they thought keeping Ichiro won’t make team fresh. However, Mariners’ position declined and became weaker and that is because they lost the power of Ichiro. Wish this team will gain new powerful player. For basic information, Seattle Mariners is the team of American League in MLB and located in Western Division.

              In the 1^st paragraph, I just introduced big event happened in current days and explained why Mariners decided to leave Ichiro from their team. Then, what is Seattle Mariners and how is it related to area study? To answer this question, I would like to explain about Seattle and its team.

 

 

 

Seattle is the biggest city in state Washington which is located in upper left side of U.S. The city Seattle is world famous for trading and a lot of people from foreign countries are living in this city.  In addition, because Seattle is famous for trading, ships of navy are also moving around the Seattle’s bay. Thus, it can say that marine is also famous in Seattle. The name of baseball team in Seattle “Mariners” and the logo of Mariners came from this fact that Seattle is famous for navy.

             Seattle is not only famous for trading or navy. One of the biggest corporations around the world like “Boeing”, “Microsoft”, “Amazon” and “Starbucks” were build in Seattle. That is because Seattle is famous for trading place and corporations in Seattle could trade their products with other foreign countries. These corporations improved and became world wise.

               Back to the story of MLB, every base ball team in MLB has their own name like “Yankees” and “Mariners” etc, and that names usually came from local specialty of their own state. When you watch MLB and found team that has interesting name, it is possible to discover the origin of team name and the State’s local specialty.

 

 

Work Cited

 

The main site of Seattle Mariners

The government cite of Seattle

 

I took information from these two sites, but I don’t know how to make citation of these two sites, so I put like this.