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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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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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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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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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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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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Tiger shot a 48 for nine holes at the age of 9, which is better than most adult amateur players in the world. At the age of 15, Tiger became the youngest player to win the US Junior Amateur Championship for the first of three times; no other person has won the title twice. ... 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. ... 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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