At midnight on August 12, action ceased at the major-league level when the players" union stubbornly refused to accept a salary cap proposed by an equally intransigent bloc of owners. ... Shannon Dortch talks about how the strikes are changing baseball: Major League Baseball's labor dispute has hurt the game in more ways than one, according to this exclusive analysis. ... The bitter strike by major-league baseball players in 1994 and 1995 dealt the game a serious blow. ... (Dortch 1) At present Major League Baseball is all about money and is definitely hurting the ga...

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• Grade Level: High School

Their success in the major leagues helped propel them into the national spotlight as heroes and role models for African American youth. ... The four African Americans who became successful in the major leagues were among the ones who financially benefited the most, even though they did not get paid well at all. ... Popularity did not stop at the major leagues. ... As Jackie Robinson and his fellow baseball pioneers were drawing record-breaking attendance in both the majors and minor leagues, the Negro Leagues were suffering greatly (Baseball- Integration). ... Jackie Robinson's great ...

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The athlete obviously had to practice for years before the opportunity of the major leagues approached them. ... There have been two confirmed cases of steroid use in Major League Baseball. ... There are a lot of major leaguers who would do anything to reach the stardom and wealth of the primer players in the game despite the risks. ... A drug testing policy is something that has been talked about in Major League Baseball many times, but no resolution between the owners and the players union has been reached. ... Though Major League Baseball finally got the much-needed drug testing policy ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The athlete obviously had to practice for years before the opportunity of the major leagues approached them. ... There have been two confirmed cases of steroid use in Major League Baseball. ... There are a lot of major leaguers who would do anything to reach the stardom and wealth of the primer players in the game despite the risks. ... A drug testing policy is something that has been talked about in Major League Baseball many times, but no resolution between the owners and the players union has been reached. ... Though Major League Baseball finally got the much-needed drug testing policy ...

• Word Count: 1917
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

National Football League The National Football League (NFL) is the United States" most popular sport, eclipsing Major League Baseball (MLB) over a decade ago. ... To date, the League has coordinated this effort. ... His new YES Network caused major trouble for cable provider Cablevision who refused to carry the YES Network as a basic channel. ... NFL Properties is responsible for leading all marketing efforts for the league's teams. ... The United Way benefits greatly from the league wide sponsorship it is given under the direction of NFL Properties because it is a national organ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

There is only one number in all of major league baseball that is retired throughout the league. ... The number is 42, and it belongs to the first African-American to play Major League Baseball, Jackie Robinson. I believe that the reason this is the only number that is retired throughout the league is that breaking the color barrier in baseball was that significant of an accomplishment. ... The players on this team would be the first integrated high school in their league. This caused major problems in two different aspects of the season. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

One of the greatest problems faced by Major League Baseball today is what to do about steroid use and how they can put an end to it. ... Major League Baseball is no exception either. ... Many people feel it's the league's responsibility to look out for it's players and allowing steroids to be taken without any testing violates that. ...

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It is estimated that 40 percent of the National Football League (NFL) players regularly use cocaine and that number is also increasing in Major League Baseball (MLB) ("Drugs"). ... Also, in all of America 's professional sports leagues, such as the NFL and the MLB, they have banned the use of recreational drugs and PEDs ("Drugs"). ... The first major Olympic disqualification due to steroids occurred in 1988, when the Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson was stripped of both his gold medal and his world record in the 100-meter sprint after testing positive for the banned steroid stano...

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The first man to break the color barrier in Major League Baseball in the 20th century, Jackie Robinson is one of the most celebrated baseball players in history. ... After hid successful season in 1946 with the team's Farmclub he became the first African American major league baseball player since the 19th century. ... But before Jackie Robinson there was Moses Fleetwood Walker, he was the 1st African American major league baseball player to play baseball in the late 1800's. On April 15, 1947 Jackie Robinson became the 1st African American to play major league baseball....

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• Grade Level: High School

At this time the Negro Leagues were almost as popular as the white major leagues. ... Finally on April 9, 1947 he was official called up to the major leagues by the Dodgers. ... Before Jackie broke the color barrier he wasn't even allowed to think about playing professional baseball in the major leagues. ... Jackie suggested that Major League Baseball hire a black third-base coach and a black manager. ... He was the first Negro to play baseball in the major leagues. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Have steroids affected the psychological aspect of Major League Baseball? ... When Major League players taint themselves with steroids they are just becoming bad role models for the youth of the nation. As horrible as it is, what starts at the Major League level will water-fall down into the minor league system, deeper into the college level, and spilling off into the high schools. ... Currently the Major League Baseball association does not have testing for steroids. ... When fans go to the ballpark to watch a game, they are expecting the major-league players to be more talented than t...

• Word Count: 2385
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• Grade Level: High School

One of his accomplishments was entering the major leagues and is one of the most remarkable and inspiring accomplishments in sports history. When Robinson became the first black to play in Major League Baseball, he changed Americans' views on racism forever. ... On April 15, 1947, Robinson became the first black player to play Major League Baseball (104). ... After 10-years in the major leagues he retired from the game in 1957 (James 215). ... Being the first black American to enter the major leagues, he gave strength to other black athletes to pursue their dreams....

• Word Count: 1421
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• Grade Level: High School

Since the very beginning when the Major League Baseball first began, in 1869, catchers were picked up for their defensive, not their offensive abilities. ... He placed him on the Hatillo Tigres, an amateur league team full of players about ten years older than him, long before Molina was eligible for the Major League Baseball draft. ... Louis Cardinals selected him in the fourth round of the 2000 Major League Baseball Draft. ... Because of his free-swinging tendency, he has a walk rate (7.1%) below the Major League average (8.4%). ... I got these stats from http://baseball.about.com/od/major...

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By the time he was in his later teens, Ruth was a prospect for major league baseball (Ruth, 13). ... Jack Dunn was known for picking up youngsters who he thought had major league potential. ... He made his major league debut in Fenway Park on July 11, 1941. He pitched in that game against the Cleveland Indians (Family of Babe Ruth and Babe Ruth League Inc.). ... Ruth once again announced his retirement and played his last major league game on May 30, 1935. ...

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Now, Major League Baseball is in an era known as "The Steroid Era". ... Over the past few years, performance enhancing drugs have become a huge issue in Major League Baseball. ... For instance, Major League Baseball has seen a spike in home runs. ... Roger managed to play 24 years and avoided any major injuries in the Major Leagues from the years 1984-2007 ("Roger Clemens"). ... HGH is just one of many illegal substances that Major League Baseball has banned. ...

• Word Count: 2017
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In the book, "Conspiracy of Silence: Sportswriters and long campaigns to Desegregate Baseball" written by Chris Lamb, he pointed out the problems that the club owners had with African Americans playing for their teams, for example, he mentioned that African Americans had already participated in major league games, but with segregation coming into play many whites would refuse to spend money to see black players in major league games. African American newspaper writers started to campaign to counteract the "conspiracy of silence" that wouldn't permit skilled African Ame...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Since then, organizations such as the National Football League and National Collegiate Athletic Association have also put drugs on their lists of banned substances. The only two organizations that have not yet done the same are the National Hockey League and Major League Baseball (MLB). ... A drafted football player from a High School to a NFL (National Football League) team can already rely on the use of drugs to reach success. ...

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Baseball had the Major League and the Negro League. ... Basketball also had separate leagues for blacks and whites. ... The Montreal Royals was not a part of the Negro Leagues. ... Another professional color barrier was broken the same year that Jackie Robinson entered Major League Baseball. ... The last of the four major professional sports in America to welcome an African American player was the National Hockey Association. ...

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Peter Edwards Rose was investigated by Major League Baseball and a hearing was scheduled for May of 1989. ... In my opinion Pete Rose should be inducted into the Hall of Fame, and also be re-instated into Major League Baseball. ... Rose also played in 3,562 games (a major league record) was the 1963 Rookie of the Year and in 1973 was the National Leagues Most Valuable Player. ... In 1989 the Major Leagues started an investigation on Pete Rose. ... But Janszen was determined, and insisted that Pete had better give him the money, or else he would go to Major League Baseball and tell ...

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If a ball player makes it the big leagues then they are good enough to play. ... Granted many people love to see the long ball and according to Chad Curtis, former major leaguer, "If you polled the fans, I think they'd tell you, 'I don't care about illegal steroids. ... According to a Sports Illustrated report, "major league players made 467 trips to the DL last season, staying there an average of 59 days -- 20 percent longer than in 1997. And major league teams paid $317 million last year to players physically unable to play -- a 130 percent increas...

• Word Count: 2033
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• Grade Level: High School

Alex Rodriguez is one of the greatest players in Major League Baseball. On August 5, 2013, the Major League Baseball suspended Rodriguez for 211 games for violating the league's Performance Enhancing Drug policy. ... They are a major influence on hi...

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Baseball players, especially major leaguers, do the same drills they have been taught since they were ten years old. ... Kent has probably been doing this particular drill since he was ten years old because little leaguers practically do the same dills as major leaguers displaying that the institution of baseball understands how to make the most of the human brain. ... Willie Mays, a hall of famer, started off his big league career 1 for 25, the 1 hit a homerun. ... Harvey Dorfman, a mental performance coach, was associated with many major league ball clubs and helped dozens of future hall of ...

• Word Count: 2040
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It was he who christened a new era in Major League Baseball "the Home Run. ... In 1946 the major leagues still represented only sixteen cities, none west of St. ... 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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Aluminum bats should be outlawed in college and should never be allowed in the Major Leagues for the protection of the players and the game. ... Baseball players from the youngest leagues up through college use aluminum bats. ... For major leagues, bats must be made of wood and cannot be longer than fourty two inches or wider than two and three fourths inches. ... Because of these injuries the league is going to switch to wooden bats (Reiss 11). ... The Jayhawk League and the Cape Cod League (summer leagues for college players), use only wood bats (Performance 18). ...

• Word Count: 1999
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Ruth started his minor league career with the Baltimore Orioles as a pitcher in the "Golden Age of Sport". With his talent and strength he was sent to the major leagues to play with the Boston Red Sox, before the end of the season, sold by Jack Dunn (owner of the International League's Baltimore Orioles) for $2,500. ... Ruth had twenty-two wins that year which put him at the top of the league. ... In 1930 the American League's batting average was .288, whereas the Yankees average grew to .309, the highest in Yankee league history. ... Because of Babe Ruth the American League won,...

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• Grade Level: High School