A perfect example of a man that fits these descriptions to the "T " is Billy Beane, general manager of the Oakland Athletics major league baseball team from the 2011 film Moneyball directed by Bennett Miller. ... A fitting example when he is first brought into the meeting room with the experienced talent scouts and Beane states something and points to Brand, indicating that he wants an answer. ... Nonetheless, when Brand is brought into Beane's office and informed about the trading of Jeremy Giambi and Carlos Pena, he steps up and warns Beane that these decisions are complicated and rash ...

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The athletes and groups involved in early baseball growth were very diverse, but baseball itself brought them together and allowed them to have a common goal and interest. ... The National League explicitly appealed to more middle-class audiences by requiring its teams to charge fifty cents, ban the sale of alcohol, and refuse to play Sundays. ... The major league color barrier was breached in 1947 by the careful planning and daring of Brooklyn Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey and the courage, self-control, and baseball skill of Jackie Robinson, who Rickey invited to pioneer with his team...

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Introduction Athletes have been taking performance-enhancing drugs in different forms for centuries; the furthest dated supplement used to increase performance was used in Ancient Greece, when they would ingest doop with the hopes of increasing their performance and becoming some of the first Olympic champions. Since then, the development of Performance-enhancing drugs has hit a rapid increase and massive amounts of more powerful drugs have been produced. Athletes of different sports, gender and age use these drugs all over the world. Many different sporting organizations are strongly involv...

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