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 sawdust substances. This procedure is what some think to lighten their bats and give them more distance on their hits.
             Sammy Sosa is one of the players caught using an illegal bat filled with a cork during a major league baseball game. This event surprised fans all around the world. Sammy Sosa was one of the only men to hit five hundred home runs during a national league baseball career. Sosa's reputation was crushed, and after every home run he hits, everyone wonders if he is cheating or not.
             One of the most famous cheaters of all in the national baseball league was Gaylord Perry. Gaylord Perry was a pitcher who made a twenty-two-year career off doctoring up baseballs. He would put all different types of greases on the ball to make it have more movement. He would have the grease in a locket on his necklace, in his glove, his hair, on his face, or anywhere he knew he wouldn't be caught. This was back in the seventies, so there were few rules, which slowly changed over the years with Gaylord. He was in the Hall of Fame and eventually wrote a book on his spitter ball. With players getting caught cheating and the average number of home runs rising over the years, people question every outstanding athlete about cheating. Some players use steroids to become stronger, which creates a harder and faster swing. Other players use juiced balls and illegal bats.
             If you look at the physics of the baseball game, you will realize that the corking of a bat does not work as people think it does. Baseball is a game driven by the laws of acceleration, velocity, wind resistance, momentum, and friction. With all these laws in play, it concludes that hollowin...