Baseball is one of the oldest and most popular spectator sports. The game known today was developed during the early 1800s among children and rookie players. ... The Knickerbockers rules called for nine-player teams and designed the field with a home plate and three other bases spaced out in specific lengths. ... After this game was played in the spring of 1861, a National Associatation of Baseball players formed. ... It also keeps soon to be baseball players off the street so they can continue on with their dream and get away from drugs, gangs, alcohol, shootings, and many other things. ...

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All of these pluses are good for baseball players but, the pluses are always offset by negatives, such as liver cancer, elevated cholesterol, increased aggression, and heart attacks just to name a few. ("Anabolic Steroids") As punishment for getting caught using 'the juice', players are being suspended from the game of baseball. ... Steroid use in a younger generation of baseball players is possibly the worst choice they can make. ... For instance, Major League Baseball has seen a spike in home runs. ... Obviously, steroids were not introduced to baseball players in the ye...

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If it is proven that some of the baseball players that have set records in the past few years have been using illegal performance enhancing drugs, it could cause chaos. ... Though many deny that baseball players are using steroids the facts to support that the theory are building fast. Former All-Star baseball players Jose Canseco and one time MVP Ken Caminiti recently revealed that they both had used and seen others using steroids while they were playing. ... Both of these players waited until after their careers in baseball were over to come clean and would not comment on who the other pla...

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What is Baseball? Baseball is a game of bats, bases, gloves and balls. ... There are thousand of kids everyday that play baseball in their backyards. ... Baseball has become a game of numbers. ... Most players had to get a second job in the off season; they could not live off of their salaries from their baseball season. ...

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Barry Bonds might have been a jerk, and he was willing to break the law to be better at baseball player. ... 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? ... A home run is when a baseball player hits a ball with such force that it travels a great distance and leaves the entire playing field over the fences. ... There were more Major League Baseball(MLB) players caught taking steroids during this era than ever in history however it was one the most pop...

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He loved baseball very much and it all started in Baltimore, Maryland. ... As Babe grew older he discovered baseball and became really good at it. He soon became known as the "Best Home Run Hitter in Baseball". ... Babe became one of the best baseball players there. ... He was picked to play professional baseball. ...

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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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So, too, it is with baseball. ... Players earned their places on the team based solely on athletic prowess, not social standing. ... The players of this era promoted the "metropolitan spirit- in various ways. ... Even the immigrants and the working class were still able to find players with whom they could identify. ... After the integration of the pioneer black professional player Jackie Robinson, still only a handful of African Americans had been allowed to enter the minor leagues after decades of exclusion. ...

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Pete Rose was placed on baseball's ineligible list in 1989 when commissioner of baseball Giamatti concluded that Rose had bet on baseball games including games involving his own team the Cincinnati Reds. In an agreement made with baseball, Rose accepted his banishment from the sport, but Rose did not admit to having gambled on baseball games. ... He took the practice of spiking opposing players while running the bases to new and disgusting heights; most of his own teammates couldn't stand the guy. ... These are just a few of the distinguished baseball players who by hook or cr...

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The first one that comes to my mind is the statistics involved in baseball. ... The most common statistic in baseball is of course the batting average. This statistic is important to all baseball players because it portrays your performance as a hitter and without good hitters the game would have no scoring. ... Other statistics in baseball include slugging percentage, ERA (earned run average), and on-base percentage. ...

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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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(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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Exemplification Essay At the age of eleven, I was a young boy who wanted to look up to all the professional baseball players. ... The loyalty that he shows to his family is unbelievable and very unlikely for baseball players of today. ... There's always the easiest way out of them all to become a baseball role model, and that is being a great player on the field. ... These stats don't come from an average baseball player in the Majors. ... Cal Ripken Jr. showed that everyday during his time as a professional baseball player. ...

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Rule five in the guidelines for induction states, "Any player on Baseball's ineligible list shall not be eligible for the Hall of Fame"(Pre-amble1932). ... "Charlie Hustle" as was affectionately know for his hard work ethic and never say die attitude was the definition of a baseball player. ... He was voted most valuable player in the league three times, he won four batting titles, and helped the Reds to a championship in 72. ... I don't care if holds every record in baseball. ... Simply put, Pete Rose was an excellent baseball player and throughout his career he amassed num...

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With that being said, he became the 28th baseball player in history to reach 3,000 hits. ... His career statistics contend with those of baseball's all-time greatest players, as well as having five championship rings, with three of them being in a row. ... 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. ... He remained one of baseball's best defensive player throughout his career, concluding with a .976 fielding percentag...

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Basketball and baseball players play a much longer season then do football. Baseball players play one hundred and sixty-two games that lasts more than five months long throughout the country. ... Salaries of baseball players slowly but steadily continued to rise during this time. ... Indeed, Babe Ruth was a great baseball player; however, he was a typical overpaid athlete with an attitude that foreshadowed many to come in the future. ... In 1994, baseball went on s...

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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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Shoeless Joe is a book about a man who builds a baseball field in his cornfield because he heard a voice telling him "if you build it, he will come". ... He builds the field section by section, and as each section of the field is completed, a baseball player who has been dead for some time comes and plays in that position. The first area of the field that is completed is left field, where Ray's favorite baseball player, Shoeless Joe Jackson plays. As Ray is building the baseball field, he hears another voice, "Ease his pain." ... Salinger and himself sitting at Fenway Park watching a ...

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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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Baseball, football, boxing, horse racing, tennis, and gold are just some of the events that captured Americans attention. At this time baseball was trying to recover from the Black Sox Scandal. ... It was called the Black Sox Scandal, because many players from the 1919 Chicago White Sox World Series team accepted bribes to lose their games. ... He became one of the most talked about football players of all time. ...

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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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For example, I myself am a baseball player. When I look up to professional players such as Ken Griffey Jr., I praise the fact that he has the ability to run from home to first in four seconds, or hit a baseball 500 feet, or make acrobatic plays in the outfield. ... 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. ... But as Branch Rickey explained to him then, Jackie was going to experience a great deal of public hatred by racist fans and fellow players. ... So, to idolize a baseball...

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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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