...Pete Rose has to be in the Hall of Fame Pete Rose is an iconic figure for Cincinnati and Reds Baseball. He has over 4,000 hits and over 3,000 games played, both the most by any player ever. Looking at that he should be in the Hall of Fame right? Well no, he is not. He bet on baseball during his playing career and was forever banned from baseball. However, the Hall of Fame is not full of saints and even other Hall of Famers like Hank Aaron went out and said they would like to see him get in. Therefore, he should be in the Hall of Fame. Since the Hall of Fame is a museum to honor the great players in baseball history, Pete Rose should be in the Hall of Fame (HOF). Dan Epstein wrote the article “Time Served: Why Pete Rose Should Be in the Hall of Fame” to explain the Hall of Fame is not full of saints. As Epstein states “Roberto Clemente's humanitarian credentials wouldn't have meant squat to the voters if he'd hit like Tito Fuentes. Ultimately, the Hall Of Fame is (and should be) a museum, not a monument to morality”(Epstein). Yes he...
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... Should there be a difference in punishment between the use of performance enhancing drugs and gambling in the sport of baseball. In baseballs long and great history there has been two scandals that have given baseball a black eye. One being the story of Pete Rose, and the other being the story of Barry Bonds.” After a Hall of Fame worthy career, rumors began to circulate that Pete Rose manger of the Cincinnati Reds was gambling on baseball”. (Allen 2012) After an investigation Pete Rose was banned from baseball for life. Even though he never admitted to betting on baseball games. In the late 1990s two men Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa captured the nation’s attention when they both surpassed Rodger Maris record for the most home runs in a single season. Not even three years later Barry Bonds surpassed both men when he hit 73 home runs in a season. “The high-octane offense that Major League clubs were delivering, beginning in the late 1990s, made for great sports theater. But as allegations and revelations of performance-enhancing drug use began to surface, the public began to realize it was just that -- theater, fiction, cheating. The record books had been rewritten, but also tainted”. (Allen 2012) The league began a crackdown on drug use. In 2004 the story broke that during the investigation of a nutritional supplement company called BALCO one player admitted to taking performance enhancing drugs. Then Barry Bonds was implicated. Turning the sports world upside down and led...
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...Pete Rose; a name that is debated upon daily between analysts, sports fans, and anyone who feels the need to argue his situation. To start in the younger years of Rose's eventful life, many controversial actions would ensue. Pete Rose, otherwise known as "Charlie Hustle" for his insane effort always given, was a baseball player for the Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies, and the Montreal Expos, extending his career from 1963 to 1986. Rose was truly successful, breaking records with ease and becoming an icon in Major League Baseball. After 24 seasons played with various teams in the MLB, Rose retired and started to manage the Reds organization. Posting a 412-373 record as the manager from 1984 to 1989, Rose is the 5th most successful manager...
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...Pete Rose is an american baseball star who is best known for setting a career record in hits and most games played. He also set the record for most career walks, doubles, runs, and total bases by a switch hitter. (“Pete Rose Facts”) Some of his biggest accomplishments were most years played, (24) most career runs, (2,165) most career hits, (4,256) and most seasons with at least 600 at bats. (“Pete Rose Facts”) He is also the only player in baseball history to play over 500 games at 5 different positions. Pete Rose won 2 gold gloves, 3 world series rings, 3 batting titles, 1 MVP award, and the rookie of the year award in his first full season in Cincinnati. Pete Rose was a player of limited physical talents, but unlimited heart....
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...performance. A steroid user is someone who regularly uses and/or is addicted to taking steroids. The Hall of Fame is baseball’s greatest fraternity. The Hall has the collections of baseball historic players. To enter the Hall of Fame, you must be on the ballot to enter. To be placed on the ballot, a player must have at least ten years of MLB experience and, if alive, be retired for five years. A deceased player may be placed on the ballot after six months of his passing....
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...you grew up watching baseball in the Cincinnati, OH area then you know who Charlie Hustle is. Every kid and adult that watched the Cincinnati Reds baseball team between 1963 and 1990 loved him and wanted to be him. Charlie Hustle played the game the right way, the way that we teach our kids to play and with an intensity that was matched by no other player. He played hard every day and never tried to show off or to show up his competitors. If he was hit by a pitch or walked, he would simply drop his bat and run, not walk or jog, to first base. Most people don’t know who Charlie Hustle is they only know him by his given name, Pete Rose. They don’t remember all of the great things that he did on the baseball field they only know that he was arrested for tax evasion and that he is banned from baseball for gambling on it. Charlie Hustle holds more records in baseball than any other player in the history of the game. The one record that he is most notable for is one of baseball’s greatest records of all time. He holds the record for having the most career hits (4,256) of all time. Most experts would even go as far to say that this record will never be broken. Although he holds this record he will never be accepted into the Baseball Hall of Fame because while he was the manager of the Cincinnati Reds he was caught gambling on the Reds. You may say to yourself “what is the big deal about gambling, people do it all of the time.” Gambling on baseball while you have any dealings...
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...20th Century Baseball In 1865 towards the end of the American civil war, U.S. military officer, Abner Doubleday, had decided to draw up a sketch of a diamond shaped field and wrote up some simple rules and a few days later put his ideas to live use. He had just invented the greatest game of all time. Baseball (baseballalmanac.com). Six years later, what was once a game for military men had now started to become the national pastime. On May 4, 1871, the very first professional game was played. At this time, there was only one league, the National Association of Baseball Players. On this day, the Cleveland Forest Citys would take on the Fort Wayne Kekiongas where Fort Wayne would go on to win 2-0 over Cleveland. With only about 500 people in attendance, the game lasted for a little more than two hours as Kekiongas pitcher, Bobby Mathews, would make history as the very first pitcher to have a win on his record throw the first shutout game as Mathews went on later in the year to be tied as one of the league leaders in shutouts. In 1876, the National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs was organized, but today we simplified the name just to the National League (Mckissack 12). Throughout the rest of the late 1800’s, baseball massively grew in popularity as all-stars were being born. Baseball has a long and incredible history, especially in the twentieth- century, with events such as the first night game in 1935, the first World Series in 1903, and Babe Ruth’s “Called Shot?” home...
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...1980´s Sports The events of the 1980ś are remembered as a decade of great achievements. There were several sports moments in those years that still resonate today. November 23, 1984, Doug Flutie’s Hail Mary beats Miami 47-45. They were up against the Hurricanes so it was a very close call. MLB commissioner, Bart Giamatti bans Pete Rose for life. After betting on baseball games as the manager of Cincinnati Reds, Pete Rose was banned for life in 1989. In the Summer Olympics 1988, Ben Johnson flunked his drug test and lost his gold Metal. The Olympics provide an arena where all countries come to compete with good sportsmanship regardless of what happens with political viewpoints along with other outside conflicts. In the 1980ś, the worldś best athletes gathered for the Winter Olympics. War between the United States and the Soviet Union went on for a long time. Later, the U.S. hockey team was made up of Young, along with older minor league players who had never had any practice with each other. Sometime later, the team defeated the U.S. team 10-3 in an exhibition game Weeks before the Olympics. They were considered by experts to be the most creative and greatest hockey team in the world, due to their sense of Teamwork and ability to work with each other....
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...and Major League Baseball (MLB) is no exception. MLB has grown as a sport and business both digitally and globally. They have done a good job adapting to the world as it evolves, ensuring presence technologically, which makes the game of baseball available to anyone, anywhere, with a capable device. This factor, along with the economy, fans, and the other competing major sports in our country has an effect on how the league has to be managed. MLB uses the four functions of management very frequently. There is always planning for the next season, postseason, or all-star game. There are the annual Winter Meetings, at which motions for possible changes are brought up. MLB is unique in the way that each team is organized in its own way, as well as the league office itself. Within MLB, there are thirty teams in total, with one team calling Canada its home. Leadership within the league has many facets. There are Owners and General Managers who make major decisions such as who will manage the players on the field and which available players will make their team a championship contender. The Managers of each team are responsible, along with their coaching staff, for player performance, the organization of lineups and pitching rotation, and ultimately, wins and losses. There are also veteran players who lead by giving advice to younger players and by example on the field. The General Manager and Manager, in this case, have to be in control of their players. If performance...
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...Baseball and America have grown up together. In fact, Baseball is such an integral part of our culture that we often take for granted its deep day-to-day significance in our lives. I. Baseball A. Baseball Basics 1. Baseball is a sport played between two teams usually of nine players each. 2. It is a bat and ball game in which a pitcher throws a hard, fist sized, leather covered ball toward a batter on the opposing team. 3. The batter attempts to hit the baseball with a tapered cylindrical bat, made of wood, or a variety of other materials. 4. A team scores runs only when batting, by advancing its players via hits counterclockwise past a series of four markers called bases arranged at the corners of a 90 foot square. 5. The game, played without time restriction, is structured around nine segments called innings. 6. In each inning, both teams are given the chance to bat and score runs. 7. A teams half inning ends when 3 outs are recorded against that team. 8. In the U.S., professional MLB teams are divided into the National League (NL) and American League (AL). 9. Each League has 3 divisions a. East b. West c. Central 10. 4 Teams make the playoffs from each league a. The 3 division leaders b. One wildcard team with the best record among the remaining teams in the league. 11. Each major league ream has a “farm system” of minor league teams at various levels. ...
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...drugs that they would use would either be plant seeds or extracts of mushrooms. Later in Rome, gladiators were known to have turned to drugs. The gladiators would dope for many different reasons, from dulling pain to creating a bloodier spectacle for viewers. In professional baseball, players like Barry Bonds and Jason Giambi were called in front of Congress to discuss steroid use in baseball for two weeks. Congress insisted that steroids were ruining the sport and needed to be banned when, in reality, reported revenues were vastly increased during the steroid era. Congress also preached about a level playing field, but the New York Yankees have a payroll three times that of average teams so how fair can the league really be without a salary cap. This research paper is not on the fairness of baseball though; it is about why a person would choose to do PEDs and how it affects society. Looking at some of the influences presented; it is shown that winning is a major force, a motive and drive; going deeper into winning we conclude that money is one of the major rewards for winning. These are seen as endorsements, contracts, and advertisement opportunities that are very profitable and also sponsor individual players and teams in sports. These revenues influence and encourage individuals in sports to preform or use enhancements, these revenues give a higher social status in society’s class system known as “social Stratification” that would give the individuals power property and prestige...
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...athletes. Even though many professional sports players and bodybuilders are abusing steroids and you may never know it. Pete Rose for example used the drug Amphetamine, also called “greenies”, just to lose some weight. Other great players used cocaine to stay alert during games so that the players can react faster to catch a baseball coming at them quickly (Porterfield). Steroids do grow muscle and can be legal, but some steroids are bad and are illegal, for just the normal human or any professional sports athlete. The great players from the MLB (Major League Baseball), Tim Raines, Dave Parker, and Keith Hernandez were the players that used cocaine to stay alert for the long drug out games to react to a fast coming line drive, pop fly, or grounder (Steroids). Mark McGwire admitted to using steroids after he retired in 2001, and after breaking the single season HR record with seventy home runs. He used...
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...(Donna). This quote was made famous by former NBA player Charles Barkley in a commercial he had produced for Nike. Most people don’t take into account that athletes do not choose to go into their professional field expecting to be every little kids role model. They expect that just because they are professionals, they shouldn’t be doing anything wrong and they should be the ideal person. Most athletes however, manage to keep everything they do under wraps and stay out of trouble entailing the media or authorities. The question that has become very prevalent in the day and age where athletes are caught cheating or being arrested remains in the publics’ eye, whether or not their kids should be looking up to these athletes as role models. Baseball is really starting to crack down on their players using Performance Enhancing Drugs or PEDs. “Long before the innocence of the game was permanently stained by the filthy deception of steroids,” (Posnanski 554). That sums up how most baseball fans feel about where the sport has gone, at least the older ones. Parents who watched baseball in their time and now see baseball players as cheaters who don’t deserve all that they are getting because of how they go about it. The baseball they loved didn’t have steroids or sixty home runs in a season. Now what the sport has become is people who are cheating their way to the top and haven’t earned the right to be there like the players they used to love. The cheating seems to be everywhere...
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...Derek Sanderson Jeter ( /ˈdʒiːtər/; born June 26, 1974) is an American baseball shortstop who has played 17 years in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees. A twelve-time All-Star and five-time World Series champion, Jeter's clubhouse presence, on-field leadership, hitting ability, and baserunning have made him a central figure of the franchise during the Yankees' success of the 1990s and 2000s.[1] Due to his impact on the team, he has served as the Yankees' team captain since 2003.[2] He is regarded as a consummate professional by teammates and opponents alike,[3] and has a reputation as a reliable contributor in the postseason.[4] Jeter was drafted out of high school by the Yankees organization in 1992, and he debuted in the Major Leagues in 1995. The following year, he became the Yankees' starting shortstop and won the Rookie of the Year Award. In addition, Jeter's achievements include four Silver Slugger Awards, five Gold Glove awards, All-Star Game MVP Award, World Series MVP Award, and membership in the 3,000 hit club. Many players and coaches consider Jeter to be one of the best players of his generation.[5] He is the all-time hits leader among shortstops,[6] and his .317 career batting average through the 2009 season ranks as the fifth-highest among active players. He has been among the American League (AL) leaders in hits and runs scored for the past ten years. He is the all-time Yankees hit leader, having passed Hall of Fame member Lou Gehrig in 2009...
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...PRODUCTS Running Adidas currently manufactures several running shoes, including the adiStar Control 5, the adiStar Ride (the replacement for the adiStar Cushion 6), the Supernova Sequence (the replacement for the Supernova Control 10), and the Supernova Cushion 7 (which will soon be replaced by the Supernova Glide), among others. In addition, their performance apparel is widely used by runners. Adidas also uses kangaroo leather to make their more expensive shoes. Association football One of the main focuses of Adidas is football kit and associated equipment. Adidas also provides apparel and equipment for all teams in Major League Soccer. Adidas remain a major company in the supply of team kits for international football teams. Current examples include Spain, Russia, France, Germany, Greece, Romania, Argentina, Mexico, South Africa, Japan and Nigeria. Adidas also makes referee kits that are used in international competition and by many countries and leagues in the world. In the United States, referees wear the Adidas kits in MLS matches even though the primary referee supplier is Official Sports. The company has been an innovator in the area of footwear for the sport with notable examples including development of the Copa Mondial moulded boot used for matches on firm dry pitches for almost forty years. The studded equivalent was named World Cup follow in celebration of the 1978 tournament won by Argentina, one of the nations it supplied at the time. Some of the famous football...
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