Baseballs Legend Imagine yourself in the stands of a baseball game on a spring day. The crowd cheering and the smell of popcorn in the air. The year is 1947 in the city of Brooklyn, New York and you're about to see history in the making. For the first time in history a black man takes the ...

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...

The narrator, in W.P. Kinsella's "The Thrill of the Grass", has nostalgic memories of baseball in earlier time including the smell of the freshly cut grass. The horrifying fact that the game of baseball is changing from what it used to be a hundred years ago, to what it is now, has made the narrato...

In 1910 Branch Rickey then the coach of the team Ohio Wesleyan went to south bend for a game. To go to the game the team had to stay at a hotel. The hotel management would not assign a room to a African American man named charley. The coach then threatened to take the whole team to another hotel...

Salaries in Baseball are skyrocketing every year. Why would a salary cap be needed? It would be needed to help keep ticket prices down, and help make for a more even level of competition for all teams. A salary cap is needed to keep baseball thriving in the future, to keep the game exciting and...

Did you know that the top paid teams in the league are always in first or second place? The New York Yankees, the top paid team, has won the most World Series of any baseball team. "[They] led the major leagues [in salary] with an average of nearly $4 million" (Blum 1). Furthermore, these teams are...