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. ...

• Word Count: 1929
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography

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...

• Word Count: 1968
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

When people think of sports related to the United States, many people think of baseball, basketball, and American football. ... At the beginning the salaries were between $125 to $300 per game per player, depending on the number of years a player had served. ... Lacrosse players play for the love of the game, not the money. As Jim Huelskamp, author of Indoor Lacrosse and former MILL player, says, "the rush that players get playing in front of a full arena is payment enough". ... With the strike getting nasty, most of the players, led by the Gait twins, who signed the first substantial player c...

• Word Count: 1603
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Since the World Cup, taking your shirt off is something that people relate with women soccer and its players. ... The night that the game was replayed, it drew more attention than baseball's All-Star Game that was aired the same night. ... We see that players are no longer on the playing field for the feeling of victory, but are out there for the seven figure pay check that they receive for dedicating half of the year to their sport. ... There were twenty players with signed letters of intent, six of which were Olympians. The tickets were priced at five dollars a piece and the maximum sal...

• Word Count: 1978
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Players are to strike their opponents with the sword for points, in older forms of the sport referees were assigned to notify the judges and then they would tally the points up. ... Epee fencers gain one point for every strike against their opponent or a "double hit" point is distributed (one point to each player) if both players hit each other at the same time (the scoring machines actually calculated that a double hit point will not be distributed if both hits did not contact in under one twenty-fifth of a second. ...

• Word Count: 2383
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

In December 9, 1998 the Los Angeles Times reported about the use of androstenedione (andro) in the Major League Baseball. "Mark McGwire was one of, at least 100 professional Players who took andro."" ...

• Word Count: 1902
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

In another case at a Division III School, baseball players placed bets using parlay cards and were withheld from playing half of their season. ... Assume for a moment that everyone who played the lottery was a casual player and spent the average amount of 74 dollars a year on tickets. ...

• Word Count: 1884
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

In another case, a marketer offered green baseball caps as premiums during a Chinese New Year presentation. ... According to The Simmons Market Research, 2002 survey, Asian Americans are more likely than other groups to own handheld video games, DVD players, camcorders, video cameras, and multiple VCRs. ...

• Word Count: 1573
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

She wrote several plays for the experimental theater group the Provincetown Players, notably Aria da Capo (1919), a satirical fantasy on war. ... She was, for example, an ardent baseball fan, especially of the Brooklyn Dodgers team, and frequently celebrated this interest in her verse. ...

• Word Count: 1931
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School