... witness some of the best the game has to offer (Thomas 1). By helping the sport's best players to play every game of a 162-game season, while also having longer careers, an affinity begins to form among fans and their favorite players. Fans not only become more engrossed in baseball players' careers ... that decade, and most likely saved the sport as well. According to Alex Smith, front page sports writer for the Cornell Daily Sun: Following the 1994 season, baseball as a sport, was in a slump. Attendance was down and the sport frankly lacked an edge. That all changed during the summer o...

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... Expos and then again in 1977 with the Toronto Blue Jays. Then with the failing of the Expos they were shipped off to Washington D.C. at the start of the 2004 season. Many people ask the question if baseball will actually continue to succeed in Canada with only  two professional teams left in it(Toronto Blue Jays and Vancouver Canadians) after decades ... baseball experience up north has been on the steep decline. The Blue Jays have posted many losing seasons since then and even this season when leading the American League East for most of the first half of the season there was still ma...

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... there was no agreement on the terms that are supplied, there would be a drastic lock out, or strike and there would be no sports for the season. In the past 10 years, the National Football League has not had a single strike, lockout, or other game-stopping fight with its players, due ... on player salaries and gives poorer teams a bigger share of the wealth. In return, the union received a guarantee that baseball won't eliminate teams through the 2006 season. And for the first time, players agreed to mandatory, random testing for illegal steroids. Two lawyers from each side bargained unti...

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... concentration, more aggressive or no effect to choose from and were instructed to mark themselves down for all that applied to them and their personal beliefs. The results showed that 39 of the football players and 15 baseball players believed abstaining from sex 24 hours prior to a game conserves strength while 26 13 baseball players, respectively, believed such action would also ... ...

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... owners it finally paid off. On October 23, 1946 Jackie Robinson signed a contract, along with several other African American players to play for the Brooklyn Dodgers in the upcoming spring season of 1947. During campaigning and letters being sent to owners, Branch Rickey the owner and manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers was doing some of his own planning to desegregate baseball ... ...

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... men tuned in and coming to the games, what is? Well, Keith Cox won a Playboy contest last year, and part of his prize was to be accompanied to the Diamondbacks" season opener in Phoenix by a playmate. Not surprisingly, Playgirl held no similar contest. And just to show you that the male fans aren't the only ones deriving pleasure from all of ... ...

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... become the country's first baseball powerhouse. As baseball clubs were transformed into entertainment businesses, so grew their need for first-rate players who could attract paying crowds. The remarkable undefeatable season of the national touring Cincinnati Red Stockings in 1869 paved the way for baseball's full-blown professionalization in the 1876 formation of the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs. Although ... ...

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... into a room nobody could be in a bad mood. 20 Coach saw this trait as a great benefit to the team. 21 He said, "Jeanne, if you drive in a hundred runs this season it would be great, but just having you attitude on our team makes us all better for just being around you." 22 Coach also said, and the team agreed that ... ...

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... this down it means that 50 - 60% of all people in America earn sub-poverty wages unless you are, of course, the baseball player that is getting paid 5 - 10 million a season for smacking a ball around (don't you just love how the government distributes it's money?). So as to why the government pisses me off? We have men, women, and children living ... ...

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