Assimilation

A Baseball Card featuring Babe Ruth

A Vintage Baseball Card of Babe Ruth

Through the years, many professional baseball players appeared on small, cardboard trading cards called baseball cards. These baseball cards usually feature a picture of the player, along with important statistics from the player’s professional career. In the speech by Pat Mora, “The Leader in the Mirror,” you learned that leaders “come in all colors, shapes, and sizes.” For this assignment, create a baseball card for any one whom you consider to be a leader who has assimilated into a culture but stayed true to their cultural heritage. This baseball card should detail the life of the leader and each side of the card will convey different information.

On the front side of the card, you should include the following information:

  • The leader's name
  • A hand-drawn, photograph, or clip-art image of the leader

The reverse side of your card should include the following information:

  • A description of the occupation in which this person is/was engaged
  • A list of character traits - What makes this person a good leader? How would you describe this person’s personality?
  • Three of the leader’s achievements
  • Two to three sentences analyzing the leader’s contribution to the world/society

Before you begin, access the Leadership Baseball Card Checklist to make sure that you include all of the items required for full credit. If resources outside of this course are used to complete this assignment, please submit a Works Cited document. If you need assistance, visit the Developmental Module for information on citing any resources that you used.

Options to create your baseball card include the following:

  1. Hand-draw the assignment and then take a picture of it for submission to the assignment’s dropbox.
  2. Hand-draw the assignment and then scan it for submission to the assignment’s dropbox.
  3. Utilize a paint or graphics program to create the Leadership Baseball Card.
  4. Use a drawing or page layout app on a mobile device and then screen shot or export your work to submit to the dropbox.

Assignment
Once you have completed your Leadership Baseball Card, please submit your work to the dropbox.