... You shouldn't have have to be punished your whole life whine a mistake you made as a player. Eventually children /people who have never herd of Barry will ask why isn't he in the baseball hall of fame. In his 22 year career in baseball his batting average was .298. Having a career batting of .298 is a great batting average ... an objective points system. Hits, home runs, and runs batted in were given certain point values and the winner was the player who had the highest points total. The only things steroids helps you in baseball is building muscle and having more power in your swing an...

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... are illegal drugs that unnaturally boost strength and muscle mass; their consequences are detrimental to a player's health and to the sport's popularity. Ethics and steroids are two very important issues dealing with the well-being of all sports, but especially baseball. Baseball's statistics are being blown way out of proportion and history is being written unfairly because of steroid abuse. ... article in Sports Illustrated, approximately 40-50% of the players in Major League Baseball are using steroids" (Kurtzberg). Unlike other professional sports, baseball does not test for steroid...

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... Major Leagues, including using steroids. In some situations, unfortunately, the abusers succeed, which is why there will always be steroid abuse in baseball. Probably the main reason why players tend to abuse steroids is simply because of the money. A player in the Major Leagues has to perform well in order to keep his job, and obviously these steroids help the performance of ... million dollars assuages any of the risks involved with the abuse. For the low income Latin American and Cuban players, the amount of money received in baseball is especially worth the risk of shooting up. As a...

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... baseball games if this did happen. The way that David Kaplan sees it in the 8/26/2002 issue of Newsweek, he thinks all major leaguers should be free agents. The way that free agency is set up, is a big factor to the overpaid players in baseball. To be a free agent right now, a player ... has to already have five years of major league baseball experience. The way it is set up before that, is for the first two years the club owner ... pays you whatever he wants. (p46) There is a two hundred thousand dollar minimum, but who wants that in the league while Alex Rodriguez's is making 25.2 mil...

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... was known as steroids. In a 2007 article by Derrick Goold in the St. Louis Post, former senator George Mitchell states, "Everyone involved in baseball over the past two decades - commissioners, club officials, the players' association and players - shares to some extent the responsibility for the steroids era." ... change the rules and regulations regarding drugs in the MLB to be much stricter. He wanted to get rid of the rule of notifying a player 24 hours in advance prior to a drug test and expand the investigative powers to find drugs in the MLB. Mitchells report ruined the reput...

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... Alexander The Great made it to the Gordian KKnot, he solved it by cutting it in half with his sword. like the Gordian Knot, Major League baseball is a multifaceted puzzle. When you tug on one string, you necessarily pull on another. Salary questions are tied to television revenues which are tied to ... advertisers which is tied to attendance which is tied to fan support...well, you get the ifdea. And now Baseball seems to be at a crossroads. Senator Howard metzenbaum has introduced legislation to releive MLB of its long-standing exemption from the jSherman Antitrust Act. Should ... mes...

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... field such as Kirby Puckett, who was accused of an alleged sexual assault of a woman in a restaurant bathroom, "which is far worse than betting on baseball", I see no reason why Rose's alleged gambling on his team, should keep him out of the Hall of Fame. Here are my reasons why. First ... of Fame. Not to mention his other accomplishments in his career which are, the 1963 Rookie of the Year, the 1973 was the National Leagues Most Valuable Player, the all-time league record for most at bats (14,053), the record for the most singles (3,315), and the record for most doubles (746 ... are f...

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... . This should be a warning to the sluggers of today like Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, Mike Piazza, Jason Giambi and all the other big hitters in baseball today. If these guys don't insist that the players' union agree to a ban on steroids along with random testing, then any of their records will ... to ban steroids. But they didn't. So now they must carry the cloud of possible cheating. I have a good friend that plays now on the Minnesota Twins baseball team. He has been in the big leagues for 2 seasons now. It's amazing to hear of his experiences from other players, coaches, management posi...

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... the hall of fame!!! Rose, who holds the record for most hits in MLB history with 4,256 was banned from baseball for allegedly gambling thousands of dollars on games as a player and a manager for the Cincinnati Reds. It was September of the 1985 season and Pete Rose had just passed Ty ... Cobb on the all time list for most hits with 4,192. Four years later Rose was banned from baseball by than commissioner Bart Giamatti, after ... ) and income tax evasion. The question is, are these felons reliable sources of information about Rose? Two of the men grew to resent Pete Rose, their former b...

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... designated hitter is an unneeded rule in today's game. Opening day of the 1973 baseball season saw the New York Yankees Ron Blomberg step up to the plate as the first player in Major League Baseball to be a designated hitter. The benefits of the creation of this rule were to increase ... scores and attendance as stated by Dustin Buehler and Steve Calandrillo in their essay "Baseball's Moral Hazard: Law, Economics, and The Designated Hitter ... you just pack up your bats and head back into the clubhouse" (22). That does not sound too much like a baseball player, as baseball involves catc...

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... Marshall referred to it as the "season of fury," while Red Barber called it the "year all hell broke loose in baseball." What made that year so important was one player--Jackie Robinson. Prior to his ground-breaking season, black baseball players were barred from the major leagues, limited to playing only against other blacks in front of primarily black fans. That started ... , their impact was obvious during the 1950s and still noticeable in major league dugouts during the seventies. For at least one former player--"Dixie" Walker--those myths have continued to influence his destiny, per...

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... of the greatest players in the Hall of Fame do not have the cleanest reputations. In a similar situation Bowie Kuhn, a past commissioner of baseball, suspended Hall of Fame legends Mickey Mantle and Willie Mays for their connections to certain public figures in casinos, which were later overthrown after six ... the Hall of Fame, then what happens to those players with criminal records, drug scandals, or illegitimate children with different women? Ty Cobb, the player Pete Rose was chasing to become the all-time hits leader, killed a man and admitted to it. Of all players in history to hav...

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... won the game would have home field advantage during the World Series. It was a television stunt, an expected failure. The stakes of the game didn't raise the amount of viewers. Baseball just doesn't appeal to the average sports fan. Over the past five years, the amount of viewers under eighteen who watched the World Series, have declined over thirty percent. NASCAR ... fan today, and they wouldn't be able to name three all-star Baseball players. In many TV commercials, you will see a Basketball player advertising a pair of shoes. Adidas has Kobe Bryant featured for their line Kobe court...

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... ) was an African American born in state of Georgia. He was the first African American player in the America Major League Baseball, before that African American player only allow play in African American League Baseball, when he was in University, he was the only one who play not only baseball but football, basketball and track. After Branch Rickey bring Jackie Robinson into Brooklyn Dodgers, Jackie ... Robinson wipe the line between white baseball and black baseball forever, this became one of the most important ... perspective about African American. His action can effect American cult...

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... He is known for fielding, throwing and hitting. In 1966 he was the most valuable right-field player. In 1971 he was also named the best player in the World Series. He was elected to go on the Baseball Wall of Fame, which was actually against the law because you had to be retired for at least ... five years before you can get elected to be on the Wall of Fame. He was the second baseball player whose picture appeared on ... stamps. Before he died he was named the first player to get ... 3,000 hits throughout his career in baseball. He was a humanitarian, risking his life to help others. ...

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... of German immigrants. Lou's parents wanted Lou to become an engineer. Lou had different ideas and became one of the best Yankee baseball players ever. In 1921 Lou attended Columbia University to study engineering, and to play baseball and football. While in college, the New York Giants manager John McGraw had talked Lou to play summer pro-ball under a ... wouldn't give up, he worked with coaches and teammates until he became the best fielder and first baseman he could be. Wally Pipp was soon to be a star bench player after Gehrig's defence did improve. Pipp was a star first baseman for t...

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... 1991. One of Ripkens biggest accomplishments is that he has been in every all-star game since 1983. Cal Ripken is probably the most dedicated player in major league history. Ripken has never missed a game since 1982, beating Lou Gehrigs record for the most consecutive games played in 1995. Not ... replaced as manager he signed a great deal with the Orioles. Cal would earn $2.45 million a year for three seasons. Suddenly becoming the best-paid player in all of sports. Another record that Ripken broke was he made 3 errors in 161 games, and old record was six, which is pretty good ... pre...

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... Robinson. He grew up in Pasadena, California. In high school and at Pasadena Junior College he showed great athletic skill in track, basketball, football, and baseball. He left school in 1941 and was drafted the following year for Army service during World War II. After receiving a medical discharge in 1945, Jackie Robinson ... scored 113 runs. When the Dodgers opened their 1947 season, Robinson was playing second base. On April 10, 1947, Jackie Robinson became the first black player to sign a major league contract in the 20th century. During his first game, Jackie went hitless in three ...

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... Robinson. He grew up in Pasadena, California. In high school and at Pasadena Junior College he showed great athletic skill in track, basketball, football, and baseball. He left school in 1941 and was drafted the following year into the Army during World War II. After receiving a medical discharge in 1945, Jackie Robinson ... and scored 113 runs. When the Dodgers opened their 1947 season, Robinson was playing second base. On April 10, 1947, Jackie Robinson became the first black player to sign a major league contract in the 20th century. During his first game, Jackie went hitless in three ...

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... other team with more than five titles. Twenty-six world titles exceed more championships earned by a team in any major league sport, including basketball, football, baseball and hockey. The time honored tradition of the Yankees began in 1921 when New York acquired Babe Ruth from the Boston Red Sox. In his first season ... his batting average rose to three seventy-eight. After coming off of a third place American League finish, along with their new star player, the Yankees were on their way to their first American League pennant and World Series appearance. In 1923 the Yankees won their fi...

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... In 1949, he won the National League batting championship and was voted the league's Most Valuable Player. At this time, nearly every major league team had at least one black player. In 1957, he retired from baseball. After living under racial prejudice his whole life he felt he had helped improve conditions for ... blacks in baseball. Jackie Robinson played in the major leagues for only ten years. He was twenty-eight ... times, stole home twenty times, and scored over 100 runs six times. Jackie decided to become active in politics. In 1962, he was named to baseball's Hall of Fame. On O...

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... have been using illegal performance enhancing drugs, it could cause chaos. This madness would not only apply to the record books but for top executives of baseball as well. Baseball is currently the only professional sport that lacks a drug testing and punishment policy, but after many questions, speculations, and recent confessions, who knows if ... over to come clean and would not comment on who the other players they witnessed using steroids were. It is not only confessions of former player that are adding fuel to the fire. The numbers are staggering: "The 50 home-run plateau is becom...

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... team with salaries was the Cincinnati Red Stockings. During the early 1900s, blacks were not allowed to play on white professional teams. Some baseball owners tried to hire blacks by calling them Hispanic or Indian. Some interracial games occurred when major league white teams played black teams in ... York State and that integration might bring more fans to the ballpark.(Williams 110) Jackie Robinson became the first African American to play major league baseball forever changing the color barrier during the nineteenth century. The grandson of a slave, Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born J...

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... a very different point of view, namely the fact that Rose's record setting 4256 career hits should place him in the upper echelons of baseball's all time greats. Add to that his 1300 plus RBI's, 198 stolen bases and a career batting of average of 303 and most fans ... see it as proof enough that he should be in the Hall. However, while statistics normally mean everything in baseball, in Rose's case, the point seems moot. His shortcomings off the field have somehow eclipsed his tremendous energy and determination on the field. Charlie Hustle ... rule. A growing consensus suggests that Pet...

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... Ripken Jr. My Story Cal Ripken Jr. was born on Auhust 24, 1960. He played for the Orioles. Cal had one sister and two brothers. He was born into baseball. His father had been a coach and manager for several years with the Baltimore Orioles. Cal Ripken Jr. made his amazing debut as a shortstop with the Orioles in 1982. ... next seasons, Cal showed his talent. In 1983, just his second year, he was named the American League's Most Valuable Player. He also led the Orioles to a World Series title. In 1990, Cal did something no other baseball player has ever done in the history of the game. H...

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