Application
Greek Influence and Learning

Greek Influencer's Baseball Card

bust of Alexander the Great wearing a baseball cap

Through the years, many professional baseball players have 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 this assignment, you will create a baseball card for one of the influential people you learned about in this topic. This baseball card should detail the life of your chosen person, and each side of the card will convey different information.

Include the following information on the front of your card:

Include the following information on the back of your card:

Before you begin, access the Baseball Card Checklist to be sure you include all of the items required for full credit. You may need to use resources outside of this course to complete this assignment. If so, please submit a Works Cited document. If you need assistance, visit the Student Resources section for information on citing any resources that you used.

Options to create your baseball card include the following:

  1. Hand-draw the baseball card and then take a picture of it for submission to the assignment's dropbox.
  2. Hand-draw the baseball card and then scan it for submission to the assignment's dropbox.
  3. Use a template in a word-processing, presentation, paint, or graphics program and utilize the software to create the baseball card. You can then submit your work to the assignment's dropbox.
  4. Use a mobile or computer-based application to create the baseball card and email or export the final product for submission to the assignment's dropbox.

assignment iconAfter completing this assignment, please submit your work to the dropbox.