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...

Many would say that baseball tells us a lot about ourselves as people and that it reflects on our past. Baseball gives fathers something to hand down to thier sons. It's something they can share together and bond with each other. Beside a father a kid needs some one to look up to like a hero and ...

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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...

How did the civil rights movement effect Jackie Robinson?Jackie Robinson may not have been the best baseball player in the history of baseball but he was surly the most important. Without Jackie courage we would not have other great baseball players like: Ken Griffey Jr., Barry Bonds, Hank Aaron, or...

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 ...

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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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...

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...

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...

It is that time of year again, October is upon us and this is the time of year were heroes are made, who stand up and who will go home. It will be very simple for the these eight teams (Yankess, Angels, Twins, Oakland, Braves, Giants, Cards and the defending champs the Diamondbacks.) Win and your ch...

"Passing" Sunny Sunday afternoons in Harlem is a long awaited dream for all of its residents; on sunny Sunday afternoons Harlem is at it's very best. Baseball is in the air; even Grandma can't do her ordinary things because she is tuning in on the Dodgers game. On sunny S...

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...

Hank Aaron"Hank" Henry Aaron is an African-American from Mobile, Alabama. He was born in a part of the town called "Down by the Bay," a poor black area of the town. Soon after he was born he moved to a part of the town called "Toulminville" where he lived most of his childhood years (Henry Aaron #...