When fans saw their favorite player score a touchdown or hit a homerun , they can feel so happy. ... Secondly, the high salaries of athletes is that it has taken the competitiveness out of sports such as baseball. In Major League Baseball , there are big market teams and there are small market teams. ... The problem in baseball is that all the good players who become free agents go to the big market teams. ... Despite fewer players are playing their whole careers with the team they originated with, players are trying to find as soon as there contract of teams with more money which is big deal ...

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He spent a year playing baseball with the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro National League. ... On April 10, 1947, Jackie Robinson became the first black player to sign a major league contract in the 20th century. ... This was the first time that a black player participated in an All-Star game. ... In 1949, with a .342 average, he was named the most valuable player in the league. ... At this time, Robinson was having problems with his legs and was thinking about quitting baseball. ...

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He placed him on the Hatillo Tigres, an amateur league team full of players about ten years older than him, long before Molina was eligible for the Major League Baseball draft. ... He also won the GIBBY (Greatness in Baseball Yearly) Award in 2012 for defensive player of the year along with St. Louis Cardinals Player of the Year Award. ... The stats I placed in this paragraph I got from http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/mlb/players/7345/ 4. The stats I placed in this paragraph I got from http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/mlb/players/7345/ 5. ...

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Major League Baseball players are the best in the world at what they do. ... In the past, baseball players, because of their status were granted impunity. ... In the past, society has placed its baseball players on a pedestal, but as society evolved, unfavorable actions of the players caused society to view the players more harshly, lowering them from their pedestal. ... Baseball's past is filled with legendary players that made the game immortal. ... George Herman Ruth was an American professional baseball player, one of the most gifted and popular players in the history of baseball....

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It appears that sports players of today don't have the true love for the game, which the players of the past had. Joe DiMaggio represents a past time in baseball as a player and public figure. During DiMaggio's playing days, he represented a great deal of love for baseball. ... The game of baseball did not represent money; it was a boyhood dream. ... Last week, two baseball players signed a combined contract totaling $412 million. ...

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Baseball used to be America's favorite sport. ... Now, look at baseball. ... Players in the National Hockey League Players Association (NHLPA) are threatening to go on strike until the league does something about this increasing problem. Some of the proposed ideas were that they change hockey from the standard five players against five players to four players against four players to create a faster and more exciting style of play, or to shorten the schedule so, like football, more attention can be placed on each game. ... This news is also circulating in baseball and basketball. ...

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Lou had different ideas and became one of the best Yankee baseball players ever. In 1921 Lou attended Columbia University to study engineering, and to play baseball and football. ... Wally Pipp was soon to be a star bench player after Gehrig's defence did improve. ... From that day until 1939, Lou played in every baseball game the Yankees scheduled. ... Lou Gerhig was the most overlooked player in the history of baseball....

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I want to be a baseball player!" ... If this was said in 1999, the boy's mother probably would have said, "Let's go to the store and buy you a baseball glove so you can start to practice." ... It is a business in which owner and players attempt to coincide. ... Since only the top players in each individual tournament receive pay and there happened to be different players almost every time. ... In baseball, about 220 of the 831 players on this year's opening day rosters-27 percent-made $1 million or more. ...

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Prior to his ground-breaking season, black baseball players were barred from the major leagues, limited to playing only against other blacks in front of primarily black fans. ... Although Rickey's "great experiment" sparked protests from other players, it also paved the way for the integration of baseball and other sports.... By the time the controversy had settled, however, several myths about white southern baseball players had become part of baseball lore. ... For at least one former player--"Dixie" Walker--those myths have continued to influence his destiny, perhaps keeping him from b...

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(February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948) was an American professional baseball player whose career in Major League Baseball (MLB) spanned 22 seasons, from 1914 through 1935. ... Ruth established many MLB batting (and some pitching) records, including career home runs (714), runs batted in (RBIs) (2,213), bases on balls (2,062), slugging percentage (.690), and on-base plus slugging (OPS) (1.164); the latter two still stand today.[1] Ruth is regarded as one of the greatest sports heroes in American culture and is considered by many to be the greatest baseball player of all time. He was one of ...

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Pete develops a system in which players are evaluated through extreme statistics calculations that determine how much value each player represents for their current salary. ... The narrator then reminds the audience that baseball is not just a game of numbers. ... There is a lot of heart and non-statistical factors always at play during a baseball game. ... During the movie, Billy asks Pete to tell a player that he has been traded. ... Pete goes to the player with the plan and the objective in mind, and the result is a smooth altercation with the player. ...

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He was able to redefine the game he loved, baseball. ... Brother Matthias helped George Jr. develop as a baseball player. ... Upon arrival, one of the players remarked, "Well, here's Jacks newest Babe." The rest of the players also started referring to him as "Babe" and the name stuck(Family of Babe Ruth and Babe Ruth League Inc.). ... Many consider the "Babe" to be the greatest baseball player who ever lived. ...

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The New York Yankees are without dispute the most successful franchise in baseball history. ... Baseball's greatest players have played proudly wearing the pinstripes. ... It is the players (past and present) and the stories about these players that make the Yankees the team that they are. ... Yankee Stadium is, to many, the centerpiece of baseball history. ... Visiting Yankee Stadium is a must-experience for any baseball fan. ...

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Ruth had power, strength, an appetite and a desire for the game that no other player would ever have. ... Hugh Fullerton, a modern student of baseball at the time, spoke of his thoughts of baseball: Baseball to my way of thinking, is the greatest single force working for Americanization. ... Billy Kelly was the only Toronto player to take a hit from Ruth throughout this game. ... Ruth's next at bat created baseball history. ... In 1933 a new game was created in baseball, the All-Star Game. ...

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It wasn't just the fans and the media booing Robinson it was also his teammates and other players. ... In September 1949, Jackie was named most valuable player of the National League. ... They also honored Jackie by removing his jersey number (forty-two) from any other player's jersey. ... Jackie Robinson will always be in some people's eyes the Most Valuable Player in the game of baseball. ... Because of Jack Roosevelt Robinson there are now black coaches, managers, and players. ...

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He was a good player in every sport. ... He was the first player to do that. He played track, baseball, basketball, and football. ... He had one black player on the team that couldn't stay in the hotel. ... He only cares about the talent of a player. ...

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Lou Gehrig was known as one of baseballs finest player. ... This streak was ended due to an ilness Gehrig acquired during his career in baseball. A seriouse illness that not only ended Gehrig's streak but also his career in baseball. ... Lou Gehrig went on to hold many baseball records such as, career average of .340, 493 homers and 1,976 RBIs. ... Tears were coming down from his fans and players. ...

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When the glorious game ended on the baseball field at Fenway Park, the Red Sox made a promise to the people of Boston. The players spoke to them from the pitcher's mound: "You are our nation, you shall continue to watch baseball throughout the month of October, and you shall live to see the Sox play in the World Series. ... For five months of the year, the people saw the players take game after game in order to reach this sacred stage of the season. ... Let this day be taken as a sign forever between the Red Sox and the loyal baseball fans of Boston. In five months of the season, the pla...

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He is only twenty-eight years old, yet he has already established himself as one of the best baseball players in the history of Major League Baseball. ... Jeter instead chose to sign with the Yankees after being drafted his senior year when The American Baseball Coaches Association named him 1992 High School Player-of-the-Year. ... No player in major league history had ever won both the All Star and World Series MVP trophies in the same season. Currently Jeter lives in Tampa, Florida during the off-season but enjoys the New York nightlife during the baseball season. ...

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He was the first African American player in the America Major League Baseball, before that African American player only allow play in African American League Baseball, when he was in University, he was the only one who play not only baseball but football, basketball and track. After Branch Rickey bring Jackie Robinson into Brooklyn Dodgers, Jackie Robinson wipe the line between white baseball and black baseball forever, this became one of the most important event during America civil rights movement. ... What he down not just effect the world of baseball but also the whole American culture. E...

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By the age of 15, he was an all city athlete in soccer and basketball, but his true passion was always baseball. ... After a mediocre rookie season, in 1934 Hank Greenberg became known as one of the best sluggers in baseball and earned the nickname Hammerin" Hank. ... He was the only player to win it in two different positions. ... Even as a famous baseball player, Hank Greenberg remained a subject to a lot of Anti-Semitism. ... He put all these distractions aside and kept on playing baseball, to show the world that there wasn't anything that Jews couldn't do. ...

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Mickey's father and grandfather passed on their love of baseball to Mickey. Mickey loved baseball and he first began playing at 11 years old. ... He was selected American League Most Valuable Player and selected to the All Star Game. ... Again, Mickey was selected American League Most Valuable Player and to the All Star Game. ... On March 1, 1969 Mickey Mantle retired from baseball. ...

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The kids in this movie played baseball at every opportunity, simply for the love of the game. ... red baseball player's friend. ... The boys also find a new friend in the old retired player, someone who understood their love of baseball. ... When Benny busted the baseball, he did not act like a normal twelve year-old who had just smacked the leather off of a baseball. ... The kids were a pleasure to watch and the baseball scenes were great. ...

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Over the Past Century, the New York Yankees have established themselves as the premier sports dynasty in not just baseball, but all of sports. From their historic great players to their incredible ballpark, the New York Yankees rich past and promising future leaves them with a stature of excellence paralleled by none. ... And in 1920, they would gain one of the greatest players of all time, Babe Ruth. ...

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This speech was much more than a speech given by a regular old ball player who was calling it quits. This was a speech that came in a time of need and that turned the heads of millions of baseball fans. It redefined and set the tone of what ball players really are; everyday human beings with hearts, bodies, and souls, like the rest of us. Ball players may have been looked at as if they were indestructible and emotionless, but this speech Gehrig gave illustrated clearly that baseball is just a game and that there are more important things in life like family and friends. ... When people wer...

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