Do you know the names of all the teams in Major League Baseball (MLB)? If you guessed the Yankees, Red Sox, Blue Jays, Orioles, Devil Rays, Royals, White Sox, Twins, Indians, Tigers, Mariners, Athletics, Angels, Rangers, Braves, Phillies, Marlins, Expos, Mets, Astros, Cardinals, Cubs, Pirates, Reds...

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 Physics of Baseball by Robert K. Adair was a very interesting book, which revealed some fascinating information about the relationship between physics and the sport of baseball. Robert K. Adair revealed and uncovered so many interesting facts and observations about the sport. The book gave you...

Chance Gwaltney Organazation and Administration Changes in Baseball If I could change 3 things in Baseball the first would be the use of Aluminum bats. The batters will be given the most up to date technologized bats so their homeruns will be deeper. Fans dig the longball and this would d...

Replay in Baseball? 05/26/2004 How would game change if there were replays in baseball? How would people react to this change? Throughout time it seems as though baseball has been the original sport that shaped America. America was still a very young country when baseball became ...

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...

Baseball has always been known as our nation's pastime, a simple sport that has captivated millions and given us memorable moments over the last century. Decades of youngsters have dreamt of one day playing center field for the home team, all the while playing ball with the local kids at the s...

Baseballs LegendImagine 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 plate. By t...

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 ...

When most people hear about Canadian Athletics, the first thing that comes to mind is hockey. Hockey has been a great symbol for our nation but has become so big that Canadians are usually overlooked in other sports. Canadians are very diverse, especially in athletics, which might surprise many peo...

Cheating the Game and Themselves In 1996, Major League Baseball star, Ken Caminiti, emerged as the standout third baseman for the San Diego Padres. In a single season of one hundred forty six games, Caminiti put up career high numbers of one hundred seventy eight hits, forty homeruns and...

Lynn Nolan Ryan Jr., more commonly known as Nolan Ryan, developed the position of pitcher in baseball more than anyone else in the history of America's favorite past time. With his flaming fastballs and his deadly curve ball, he was able to mesmerize batters like no other. Nolan also defied the age ...

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...

Should Pete Rose be banned from baseball? Lets start with a little history. In 1989, Pete Rose was "banned from MLB for life" by baseball commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti after an investigation suggested that Rose a player-manager for the Cincinnati Reds in the mid 1980s, placed bets on major...

Mark Harris' 1956 novel Bang the Drum Slowly is a novel about the redemptive power of baseball, much like the movie "Field of Dreams" or "The Natural." The novel depicts a year in the career of the New York Mammoths, a now-nonexistent baseball team, and the relationship bet...

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...

Abolish the Designated HitterDo you prefer a bases loaded double that clears the bases and involves an exciting play at home plate or a boring three-run homerun where the baserunners trot around the bases while the defense stands around with dazed looks about them? Would you prefer stolen bases, sq...

The mantle of the best pitcher in baseball is a title that is exchanged between a number of pitchers through the course of generations. With the game ever-changing, pitchers are forced to adapt and the only way to pinpoint the elite is through private recollections of those who faced them. Players o...

Hoffman Conquers in Clutch After several consecutive years of mediocre baseball, my San Diego Padres had once again made it to the National League Championship Series. It had been fifteen years long since the Padres had made it this far in the playoffs. Many people thought that the P...

The dog days of summer are behind us, and now come the chilly nights in New York,Seattle, St. Louis, and the other side of New York.The playoffs are among us and already are living up to the excitment of Octoberbaseball. After starting off with eight teams, scattered through out the country, we hav...

The World Series: A Brief History of the October Classic In America's favorite pastime, the game of baseball, there is one major goal each year for every team in the league, and that is to win the World series. For nearly one hundred years, two teams each year have competed in a best of...

Monarchs, Banks signed a contract with the Chicago Cubs. This was no ordinary signing. This was the first signing of an African American for the Chicago Cubs. Only a few years after his signing (1953), Banks became a favorite amongst the Wrigley fans. He had an amazing second full season, smacki...