One of the sports I specialized in was baseball. I had played baseball since I was four years old. ... It was during this baseball season that I really felt I had developed into a strong player who could help his team. ... The coach let us all know that with so many strong players on the field making cuts would be difficult. ... Some players quit on their own to avoid being cut, but still more cuts were needed. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

This field is the striving point for every Division 1 baseball team. ... Most of the top players that have ever played the game have not been able to set foot on this dream. ... I was given the opportunity to prove myself and play here six times for two state titles as a high school player. ...

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High School Baseball In high school, the most enjoyable part of one's Friday nights will somehow include football games and basketball games. ... What the players wear during a game and how many players on the team is diverse also. To play football, a team must have eleven players on the field. ... A basketball player does not need all of this protective gear. ... When playing basketball, if a player hits another player in any way, or fouls, then the person he/she fouls will get to make free throws. ...

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It takes place the first day of the 1971 baseball season at Flint Middle School, here, Billy Baggs shows up for his second year of baseball. ... This causes Abner to tell his son Billy to give up baseball and continue to work on the farm. ... First the sadness of not being able to play baseball thanks to his dad. ... Using skill and ability, the town team is defeated by Billy's squad of country players and immediately grabs the attention of the city. Then Billy is faced with another decision, the one of where to play baseball the next season. ...

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"One and done" is a term used to describe a player who stays in college for a single year before leaving and enter the draft for the NBA. ... A player who feels like they are ready for the pros, the player only needs to stay eligibility for a single semester to enter the draft. ... Most of the top players in the country are leaving after only one year of college. ... If the league is concerned about the state of college basketball and the top players that coming in and leaving after one season, it should consider using the draft model similar to the Major League Baseball draft. ... With this...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

High school has many challenges for students, one of mine being on the baseball team and keeping up with all of the other players in this challenging sport. ... My response to him was that I'll try my best, because baseball is very competitive and if I have to get dirty on a play to better the chance for my team to win, then I will get dirty. ... There was no way I was going to play baseball at the time when I could barely walk. ...

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All my life I have played a wide variety of sports and learned to understand the importance of respecting each individual player, while working together as a team. I have played on football, baseball, soccer, and hockey teams. ...

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This is a question I have asked myself through high school when I was ready to go play baseball up at Husson. ... "Still, it's not surprising that the football and basketball players may want to be paid. ... I feel like, as much money as universities make, some of that should come down to the players, as well.... They have to bribe college players as it is to get them to come to their school to play sports. ... Players deserve something better than what they are getting. ...

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• Has Bibliography
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"You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out it was the other way around all the time.... It was now my senior year and I was on a school bus with forty-five guys on the way to a baseball game two hours away in Lake Charles. ... I spent several minutes looking up at the "intimidator" board with all of Barbe's program stats that included things such as: players taken in the MLB draft, 30 win seasons (my school has never had a 30 win season and this school has a stat on how many 30 win seasons they have had), highest winning p...

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In High School I played Soccer, Basketball and Baseball, so I heard the stereotypes towards my friends and teammates and sometimes towards myself. ... A classmate painted a portrait of this incident and called it "The Football Player." ... There have been accusations of coaches doing players homework, paying off teachers, and buying their players expensive merchandise. ... An example of the amount of money college's hand to their athletes is football players. NCAA allows 86 players to be on scholarship on a football team. ...

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In High School I played Soccer, Basketball and Baseball, so I heard the stereotypes towards my friends and teammates and sometimes towards myself. ... A classmate painted a portrait of this incident and called it "The Football Player." ... There have been accusations of coaches doing players homework, paying off teachers, and buying their players expensive merchandise. ... An example of the amount of money college's hand to their athletes is football players. NCAA allows 86 players to be on scholarship on a football team. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Most movies, television shows, and people make cheerleaders out to be blonde ditz" who date football players. ... I was the only football player in my high school that had the opportunity to date a cheerleader. ... There are a lot of football players with their macho attitude that believe cheerleading is for wimps and give cheerleaders no credit. ... Football players tend to be called dumb jocks, while cheerleaders are ditz. ... What does a sport like football, basketball, or baseball have that cheerleading does not? ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Unfortunately, society is not as understanding with games like basketball and baseball. ... A players' jersey may be sold in a bookstore for $45, but the players aren't allowed to see a dime of the actual revenue. ...

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Is Steroid Use Worth The Risk? Why do athletes take steroids? Almost all steroid users are taking steroids because they believe it is the only way to develop muscle and strength. Further more, almost all athletes are taking steroids because they want to get as much strength and size as they possib...

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This excerpt taken from the beginning of Varsity Blues, which premiered in 1998, shows the way of life for high school football players. ... Similar events like this one have also taken place, one involving a former professional baseball player and manager. In April 1999, Ray Knight former Cincinnati Reds coach and player was charged with simple battery, disorderly conduct, and affray (fighting in a public place). ...

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The movie, Varsity Blues, shows the way of life for high school football players. ... Similar events like this one have also taken place, one involving a former professional baseball player and manager. In April 1999, Ray Knight former Cincinnati Reds coach and player was charged with simple battery, disorderly conduct, and affray (fighting in a public place). ...

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Whether it's steroids in major league baseball or bar fights and women in hockey and basketball respectively. ... The NBA has also created a program to help young up and coming players called the NBADL. It's sort of like the minor leagues in major league baseball, which is another way to develop young stars. ...

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My weekends as child mostly consisted of sports activities such as football, basketball and baseball; which my father consistently attended. ... My goal growing up, as an adolescent was to become a professional basketball player; however this aspiration changed, as I grew older. ...

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But the question the school system should answer is this: If the school builds tennis courts for tennis players to use or spends millions of dollars on a stadium for multi sport use or makes a gym for basketball and volleyball, why can't the school create a campus skate park? ... Yes, skating is a sport, like football or baseball. ...

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Well my question for you is, if a football player was tackled too hard and became unconscious, would you remove tackling? ... However cheerleading is the only sport that does not have a single male associated with it, there is a boy's volleyball team, boy's water polo team and baseball team, but there is not a boys cheerleading squad. ...

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