...Baseball In the mid 1800’s a new sport emerged throughout America. They called it baseball, evolved from an old English game. From the moment it was invented it was instantly popular. Today baseball is known as The American Past Time. The baseball community and its athletes continue to grow year after year, as young athletes develop love for the game and its year round battles. Majority of baseball fans and non-baseball fans have been to a major league game and have both seen and felt the energy of the setting. .Baseball is responsible for priceless moments such as a father and son playing catch in the back yard. Many people find baseball too slow and think doesn’t require much skill to play, but as many of my former coaches would say the game is 50% mental and 50% Physical. one of the only sports as my high school coach . A big reason why people are attracted to baseball is because it is one of the only sports that involves a skilled athlete vs another skilled athlete, pitcher verse batter, 1 verse 1. As baseball revolutionized throughout baseball it became bigger and bigger. It reached other countries and they picked up the sport quickly and made their own leagues. Today baseball is one of the most popular sports out of all. Our fore fathers created and established many important things that shaped America to be the way it is today but only one is known as “Americas Past Time”. Baseball originated prior to the civil war, at the time it was called rounders. Rounders...
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...learn about the wonderful game of baseball and a different outlook on the sport. It is a popular sport in America. The rest of the world looks to America as a guiding force. They view America as the baseball empire of the world. Major league baseball is the envy of the world. Baseball has very broad cultural, social, and geographic impacts that go deeper than we think. We will briefly examine the diverse and changing social, economic, and political meanings of this activity in different countries. Baseball has failed in the promotion in many European and African societies and we will discuss why. Baseball is an international sport that brings great experiences and great memories that last a lifetime. It can be very important in the bond of family. The swing, techniques, bat and balls are important and we will learn why it’s important to have proper training. Also you will read about players that have tarnished the sport and players that have changed baseball forever. Mainly this is a view of the importance of the sport worldwide and how it has changed the world through the guidance of American baseballs influence on the rest of the world. Sport of Baseball Internationally this game is viewed as a very powerful game. Baseball is the same in many ways all over the world. Every player is aiming to knock the ball out of the park or just feel lucky to get on base. Although the game has changed, the history of the sport has been pretty consistent. ...
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...today’s sports. They say the only reason why it is a big factor is because the media was the reason why. ESPN and other sports outlets making it a bigger issue than it really is. We have racism in sports today is not because of sports in general, but we have racism in sports now because of the media covering them. In the article it tells us about how the media can say and tell us a lot of misleading things that may not even have to do with racism, and how that we should stop paying attention to each and everything the media are telling us, and start believing in what we think in our own perspective. Further along the article one stated on why most whites play hockey and most blacks play basketball. Are white more skilled at playing hockey? And are blacks more skilled at playing basketball? “Because the kids play the sports that dominate the area in which they grow up in. “I grew up in Milwaukee (which is a very segregated city) and can figure out why the above questions are asked”. Analysis For the analysis, as a sociologist perspective this article can be various concepts of sociology. This article can be seen as culture Stereotypes. Mainly because some may say that black African Americans is not just labeled as a football player, basketball player, or a baseball or many more because they say that black African Americans are just pure athletes. One reason why they might think black African Americans are just athletes instead of being labeled in a particular sport is...
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...Direction of Sports As a sports fan I am concerned about the directions sports have taken. Sports in general have been headed in the wrong direction for some time now. They still have a lot of time to change. They need to act quickly though if they want to solve the problem. Every major sport seems to have a problem. Baseball had their huge problem with steroids, basketball has a reputation of its players being thugs, but football seems to have no major problem. Many of these problems have not only affected the leagues, they have affected the youth all across America. Like the problems the solutions are very diverse. I love all sports, and I would hate to see them become disgraced. Baseball which is my favorite sport has had the most trouble in the past couple of years. Their decline started with the steroid scandal involving Barry Bonds. When a player that big in the game is going after a cherished home run record and there are scandals surrounding it, there is going to be some turmoil. It wasn’t just Barry Bonds fault and the people involved in the scandal, it was also baseball officials fault for not doing anything when they knew about the things going on in baseball. They turned their back to the problem because at the time baseball was doing well and they didn’t want to disrupt that. Baseball was forced to act because of the scandal. They put in a steroid policy that was laughable compared to the steroid policy of the Olympics. Baseball would like to...
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...I think many people across the world enjoy sports. I think that there are a lot of sports fans across the world, who all enjoy different sports. I know that there are many sports fans across the United States, and I am one of them. My favorite sports are, football, baseball, NASCAR and drag racing. Football is my favorite sport. I like college football and NFL football. My favorite college team is Penn State, as does my whole family for college football. Although I like both I think that college football is better for a few reasons. One being there are a lot more teams which is better because there is more football to watch. Another being that college football is a lot simpler because players aren’t worried about their contract and not every play has to go...
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...doctors and teachers. Professional athletes do not offer society an essential function that improves or enhances our world in comparison to other professionals. It is my claim that professional baseball players are paid more than they are worth. Economics is the key to understanding why these athletes earn such tremendous salaries; still, it fails to explain why they actually do deserve it. Giving athlete’s high wages doesn’t only distort them, but also bring downfall to clubs and the country’s economy. The growth and the development of a sport may be reflected from the wages of the athletes and that is all it does. In conclusion, Team owners pay more to keep athletes on the team to be on a winning streak, but whether the drive to win is justifiable remains in doubt. The economic system involving sports, corporate America, and the media is an interdependent one. Athletes make huge sums of money paid to them by owners who make even larger sums of money. Agents, free agency, and other phenomena keep athlete salaries rising. So, too, does increased ticket sales to games, increased TV viewership, enormous media contracts, TV advertising, and corporate sponsorship and endorsement deals. The economic rewards in the sports industry are so enormous that corporate America, the media, and sports franchises are driven to earn a larger slice of the profit pie. Mergers and acquisitions, alliances, cross-promotion, enormous advertising expenditures, staggering media contracts, and a host of...
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...third championship with the Chicago Bulls there no was no doubt that Michael was the best. Jordan did something unheard of in today’s world of sports and decided to walk away. Too often superstars today milk as much fame and money out of their careers in professional sports. For Michael he knew there was more to life than just basketball. In the prime of his career Jordan was hit with the hardest news of his life. Jordan’s father had been shot and killed in a robbery along the border of Jordan’s home state, North Carolina. The news devastated the star. The close relationship between Michael and his father was something that was well known. Jordan decided the best way to honor his father would be to follow his father’s dream of seeing his son be a baseball player. A team, a sport, a nation all quivered as the idol of basketball was ready to throw away his talent to pick up a sport he hadn’t played since high school. Chicago Bulls and Chicago White Sox owner, Jerry Reinsdorf, thought that Jordan deserved a chance to fulfill this dream. Reinsdorf offered Jordan the opportunity to stay in Chicago and become a member of the White Sox. When Jordan joined the Chicago White Sox there were many doubters far and wide. The baseball world felt that Jordan was spitting on it. The idea that someone could pick up a baseball bat and just start hitting came across as insulting to baseball enthusiasts. Sports Illustrated came out saying the “experiment” would never work. This athlete who was...
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...Aidan Pedroza Professor Margrave ENGL 100B Sec 38 26 February 2024. The Little Baseball Almanac Sports do not build character, they reveal it. This quote is from the best college basketball coach of all time, John Wooden. Sports are a very big part of the world today. Just a couple of weeks ago we had the Super Bowl, which is the most watched television event of the year. Sports are a very important part of my life. Throughout this story, you will see why my education in sports is important in my life. This is where I met my friends, my mentors, and my heroes. Not only has this education helped me in my past, but I hope it contributes in finding my future career. My earliest introduction to sports was through my family. Since both of my parents...
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...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 (Weber’s theory). This is the dominant...
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...surrounding them. The Yankees could arguably be the best team in major league baseball history, but many people would rather refer to them as the “Evil Empire”. The Yankees empire started in 1903 with the name New York Highlanders. The name was changed to the New York Yankees in 1913 and in 1920 the Yankees made the historic deal with the Red Sox and brought Babe Ruth to New York. This trade marked the start of the Yankee’s winning empire. They went on to win championship after championship. George Steinbrenner bought the Yankees in 1973 and continued to lead them into the depths of greatness. With the help of managers Joe Torre and Joe Girardi, the Yankees appeared in every playoff from 1995 to 2010, except for 2008, and also won five world championships during that time (“Yankees”). Whether you love or hate them, their winning record is undeniable. My skeptical audience is baseball fans. Many baseball fans dislike the Yankees with a passion. The problem most people have with the Yankees is the way they spend their money, or in other words how they “buy championships”. If the Yankees are willing to pay big money, it is much harder for smaller, less-profitable teams to compete for baseball talents. Which means fans must watch their hometown teams continue to diminish, while bandwagon fans support and spend money on the Yankees. While many baseball fans hate the Yankees, I argue they should believe that the Yankees are not an evil baseball dynasty by showing that the Yankees are “America’s...
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...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 now. “Sammy Sosa corking a bat, Johnny Damon using maple instead of ash bats, K-Rod putting resin on his cap, Pete Rose mixing Adderrall in with a cup of coffee, or Mark McGwire’s...
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...America and Baseball: If You Want to Know America, Then you better Know Baseball Sean R. Golob Western Governors University If You Want to Know America, Then you better Know Baseball Baseball hits a home run when it comes to comparing it to the American identity. Both baseball and the American identity have three aspects that are exactly the same; both are very diverse, both are rather competitive, and both are driven by business and money. America is a diverse country, according to US Census Bureau (2013) quickfacts reference page, “Caucasians alone total 77.7%, Hispanic and Latino alone 17.1%, and African American alone 13.2%”. However, America has races from every inhabitable continent; we have a large number of Asians, mass amounts of Europeans, and growing amounts of Latinos and African ethnicities. These aspects all put together combine to make a huge part of the definition of American identity. Along with diversity, another aspect that is used in the definition of American identity is business and corporations. Corporate America is one of the largest and wealthiest forms of business in the world. Wall Street deals with billions of dollars daily, corporations throughout the country grow in size and significance. Lastly, competition is the last big part of the definition because of the international trade, emphasize on sports and athletics, and between other rivalries between other countries. The same is with baseball in America;...
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...Move over Baseball, Football is America’s New National Pastime Abstract The argument over which sport actually ranks as America’s national pastime is as enduring and intense as American sports themselves. Each and every week millions of Americans tune in to watch their favorite sports. Over the years baseball has traditionally been known as the national pastime among all sports, but the rich tradition and history behind baseball is almost certainly being slowly replaced by the glamour of football season. Although baseball is still referred to as America’s national pastime, football is by far the most popular sport in this country today. This can be attributed to many factors including a superior television product, more controlled violence, and legalized gambling with fantasy football. Keywords: national, pastime, football, baseball, sports, television, violence, gambling Move over Baseball, Football is America’s New National Pastime Each and every week millions of Americans tune in to watch their favorite sports. Basketball, baseball, football, golf, soccer, and racing all have a place and a market with the sports fans in America. Over the years baseball has traditionally been known as the national pastime among all sports, but the rich tradition and history behind baseball is being slowly replaced by the glamour of football season. Over the past two decades, baseball has been left behind while football has become America’s new national pastime (Gramling, 2010...
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...It’s unfortunate to say that life is shorter than one expects. Why waste time when you can be practicing or achieving your goals and dreams; to be successful in life or make an accomplishment that can make you known to the world. Hopefully as time flies by, I will accomplish my three main goals on my Bucket list. Hopefully my dreams and goals will come true and it will prove to other people in this world that having a bucket list can actually work. My three goals are to be scouted from college baseball scouts, have a nice home with six rooms and three bathrooms, and to be remembered for playing the sport that I love which is baseball. One of the accomplishments that I hope to achieve in my life is to be scouted by a college coach. Getting to play on a college team is very hard to achieve. There is an abundant amount of competition around looking for a chance to get scouted. I hope to maintain high averaged grades, keep healthy and not risk injuries, and lastly to motivate myself to become a better athlete. Getting into baseball in college is a huge step further into my future. It will help get everything in my life to stay on track. Also it will help me as a person to become a mature young adult. Which in the long run will greatly impact my life in a positive way....
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...Steroids have been part of baseball history for a long time and it’s benefited athletes who resort to using it without getting caught. It’s helped the game develop into the game we see today, with players breaking home run records and pitchers pitching Cy Young worthy numbers. Steroids have caused a rift between who should or shouldn’t be in the Hall of Fame because it helped them get a competitive boost with the use of an injection or cream, while others played naturally and legally. While I believe that steroids have its advantages in athletes, it is just another way athletes can gain a competitive boost. If steroids were to be legalized, all athletes would have the chance to compete at the same level, but in a much higher and competitive environment. The stadiums would be more electric and games would be more exciting for the fans to enjoy....
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