The game of baseball has been known throughout the ages as "America's National Past Time.... Now, Major League Baseball is in an era known as "The Steroid Era". ... For instance, Major League Baseball has seen a spike in home runs. ... That means that Young compiled 5 – 20 win seasons than anyone else in history. ... HGH is just one of many illegal substances that Major League Baseball has banned. ...

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In 1845, a more formalized version of baseball came into existence with the invention of the modern baseball field by Alexander Cartwright. ... So, too, it is with baseball. ... Spalding, the "Father of Baseball- established professional baseball as a stable commercial enterprise. ... Nothing in all of history has so gripped an entire populous in the way that baseball has managed to take hold of the American nation. ... The 1920 season was historic for baseball. ...

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Steroid use in professional sports is bad because of the after effects it has on the history of the game and the youth who will follow in years to come. ... Would we more happily pay for a Major League Baseball game in which neither team scored or pay for a game in which baseballs are flying out of the park due to performance enhanced players? ... There were more Major League Baseball(MLB) players caught taking steroids during this era than ever in history however it was one the most popular eras in sports history because of the popularity due to so many home runs being hit out of the park. ...

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The New York Yankees are without dispute the most successful franchise in baseball history. ... Although many didn't see the history of the Yankees, they experienced history in the making as the 1998 Yankees won the World Series while having the best record of any team in a single season. History and baseball greatness is overwhelmingly displayed in the Yankee symbol. ... 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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It was July 9th, 2011, and fortunately, I was able to witness a small part of baseball history first hand. ... With that being said, he became the 28th baseball player in history to reach 3,000 hits. ... Derek Sanderson Jeter is one of best baseball players to ever play, and may very well be the greatest Yankee captain we will ever have, as well as being the most respected baseball player the game has ever seen. ... In Sean Gregory's article "Baseball's Derek Jeter Problem", he states "The Derek Jeter problem extends to all of baseball. ... The bad news: no other bas...

• Word Count: 2017
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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. ... Because of George Herman Ruth, baseball remains the national pastime with a strong sense of competition. ... In 1930 the American League's batting average was .288, whereas the Yankees average grew to .309, the highest in Yankee league history. ... 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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For example, I myself am a baseball player. ... All one has to do is examine the chronology of the 20th century in America's history to note the interrelationship between athletic heroes and the influence they have had on the masses. ... "[Dempsey] is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of modern boxing and has gone down in history as one of the toughest men ever to enter the ring" (www.cmgww.com/sports/dempsey/dempsey.html). A few decades later, on April 15, 1947, the first black baseball player set foot on a major league baseball field; his name was Jackie Robinson. ... S...

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Basketball and baseball players play a much longer season then do football. ... This was during a period in American history when America was trying to build an imperial power in which they had to pick and choose their battles. ... This was arguably the hardest time in American history. ... In 1970, Curt Flood challenged baseball's reserve clause. ... In 1994, baseball went on s...

• Word Count: 1968
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Remembering The "Iron Horse" As a first baseman for the New York Yankees baseball team, Lou Gehrig played in 2,130 consecutive games from 1925 to 1939, setting a major league record and had a career batting average of .340. ... This was a speech that came in a time of need and that turned the heads of millions of baseball fans. ... The first two lines out of Gehrig's mouth could easily be the most famous in all of sport's history, "Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. ... When people were down and frustrated and lot of them had nowhere to turn...

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Babe Ruth made baseball America's past time, he brought the game out of the dead-ball era, and transformed the game into the highly offensive slugfest that we know of as baseball. ... He was the youngest, and probably the most charismatic president of our countries young history. ... Tiger Woods has this same influential effect that every other icon in American culture history has had. ... About five years ago, when a young boy was playing by himself in the back yard, he would have been swinging a baseball bat. ...

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