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Baseball Baseball has been providing us with fun and excitement for more than a hundred and fifty years. The first game resembling baseball as we know it today was played in Hoboken ,New Jersey, on June 19, 1846. The New York Nine beat the New York Knickerb...

The physics of cheating in baseball is very complicated, and some say it is just superstitious. Throughout the year\'s baseball players worldwide have tried to find a way to cheat and make them hit the ball further. Some have tried hollowing out bats and replacing the wood with cork, rubber, or sawd...

How does baseball, and especially its literature, propagate and foster American cultural myths? "If you build it, they will come." "Say it ain't so, Joe." These familiar phrases, from the films "Field of Dreams" and "Eight Men Out," respectiv...

Baseball is one of the oldest and most popular sports in the United States. It is known as America's "national pastime" because of its strong tradition. It is competitively played with a hard ball and bat between two teams of nine players each. Even though this sport was developed ...

The History of Baseball It is a game played everywhere, in parks, playgrounds, and prison yards, in back alleys and farmers fields, by small children and old men, raw amateurs and millionaire professionals. It is a leisurely game that demands blinding speed. It is the only game in which the defenc...

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Pete Rose "Banned for Life" How do you allow the all-time hit leader, games played leader, and a multiple most valuable player to be banned from baseball for life? Maybe if this person bet on the game for which he gave his all. This is what happened to Pete Rose. Although Rose set a...

Money in Pro Sports Most people in America feel that pro athlete's salaries are too high. Current sports salaries are reaching astronomical figures. Players are signing 50 million-dollar contracts and up just because they happen to be pretty good at hitting a baseball. Just the other day ...

Anabolic steroids. BALCO. THG. No I am not referring to an underground drug smuggling operation, these are the three most common terms in recent headlines about Major League Baseball and its' players. The encyclopedia Britannica defines anabolic steroids as; hormones that are given to elderly ...

Not that long ago sports used to be clean. I don't know if you can say that about today's game. Players from all different sports like: Jackie Robinson, Babe Ruth, Yogi Berra, Mickey Mantel, Willie Mays, Bob Cousy, Pete Maravich, Bart Starr, and Walter Payton were all clean. They were pr...

PERSON OF MAGNITUDE The person that I chose for a person of magnitude is Jackie Robinson. Jackie was just not any old person that lived through the 1900s, and endured all the pain and hardship that time brought to the people. He kept strong and had a will to survive through the Great Depression ...

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Star Athletes: Playing for Fame or the Game? Baseball has been America's pastime for quite sometime and it has even given a select few an opportunity for a better life. Over time people have come to question the way in which players have been viewed in both movies and the way they perform ...

Discuss A Place You Enjoy Searching through memories, events, and experiences I discover myself uncovering more about myself and my character. Insightful to my desires and interests have been necessary to discover my true place of enjoyment. A place where I find enjoyment is any ordinary base...

Bart Giamatti's decision to ban Pete Rose from the Baseball Hall of Fame was not a fair decision at all. Pete Rose was placed on Baseball's ineligible list in 1989 when commissioner of baseball, Bart Giamatti concluded that Rose had bet on baseball games, including games involving his o...

One of the most influential people in society is Jackie Robinson. Not only has he made a great impact on society by inspiring African Americans to go to colleges or universities and changing the way people look at the All-American sport baseball, but by making history by being the first Afro-Ameri...

America's Pastime Boosts America's Cultural FadsWhat does one usually envision when they think of America? Stereotypically responses include apple pie, cheeseburgers, liberty, and baseball. All the previously mentioned things have a significant cultural place in America. For example, baseball has...

Stop the Steroids Baseball has always been our national past time, watching the players we love and look up to. Pro athletes are role models for young kids all over the world, but at this point they have become criminals. The athletes have problems with theft, drug abuse, rape, murder, and now...

The Boston Redsox, a major league baseball team, have not won a World Series title in 52 years. The cause of this long drought of losing seasons is debatable according to fans and sportswriters. The 2003 major league baseball season was the last attempt by the team to make it to the big game. The...

Jackie Robinson, actually called Jack Roosevelt Robinson, was born on in Cairo, Georgia in 1919 to a family of sharecroppers. His mother, Mallie Robinson, single- handedly raised Jackie and her four other children. They were the black family on their block, and the prejudice they encountered only s...

George Herman \"Babe\" Ruth February 6 1895, a normal date to some but to those that know, its historical. It was a day a hero was born. George Herman \"Babe\" Ruth, born in the house of his maternal grandfather at 216 Emory street in Baltimore. It was there that Babe was raised in to this world...

1. The correct name of my person is Willie Howard Mays Jr. 2. His nickname was "The Say Hey Kid". 3. Mays was born May 6, 1931. 4. He was born in Westfield, Alabama., just outside the major city of Birmingham. 5. The names of his parents were not known, but his father's nickname...

At one point in my life I wanted to play baseball for a living. I think we all did at one time or another. Little league for me was about the closest I ever came to it though, unless you count the times when my father would take me to Joe Robbie Stadium to watch the Florida Marlins play. I once a...

He was born on October 25, 1971 in Manoguayabo, Dominican Republic. He's five feet and eight inches tall. He's thirty years old and plays for the Boston Red Sox. Shortstop and pitcher are his positions on the team. Last year his salary this year is about thirteen million and five hundred t...