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....

• Word Count: 3163
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: High School

I want to be a baseball player!" ... If this was said in 1999, the boy's mother probably would have said, "Let's go to the store and buy you a baseball glove so you can start to practice." ... It is a business in which owner and players attempt to coincide. ... Since only the top players in each individual tournament receive pay and there happened to be different players almost every time. ... In baseball, about 220 of the 831 players on this year's opening day rosters-27 percent-made $1 million or more. ...

• Word Count: 5027
• Approx Pages: 20
• Grade Level: High School

Pete develops a system in which players are evaluated through extreme statistics calculations that determine how much value each player represents for their current salary. ... The narrator then reminds the audience that baseball is not just a game of numbers. ... There is a lot of heart and non-statistical factors always at play during a baseball game. ... During the movie, Billy asks Pete to tell a player that he has been traded. ... Pete goes to the player with the plan and the objective in mind, and the result is a smooth altercation with the player. ...

• Word Count: 2511
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

The big star player of the team at that time was the great Denton True "Cy" Young, more commonly known as "Cy," the big right hander spent nearly 20 years in the big leagues and set the pitching standard for all of baseball to follow. ... He has often been called the best baseball player of all time. ... He experienced a lot of great players in his days with the Red Sox. He had players like, Lefty Grove, Joe Cronin, Jimmy Foxx, and Bobby Doerr. One of the greatest players ever in the game was Ted Williams. ...

• Word Count: 2589
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The chapter that looked at race as it related to the stadium and baseball in general was phenomenal. ... On April 15, 1947 Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers. ... A Diamond in the Bronx was not the history of the Brooklyn Dodgers however, and touched more on the issue of Yankee's initial reluctance to integrate and focused on the Yankee's first black player, Elston Howard. ... A luxury that we have come to accept as normal, night baseball was not initially thought of as a positive addition to baseball. ... When night baseball was...

• Word Count: 2808
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography