Credibility: A Short Story Of Alex Rodriguez

Baseball is a game of skill that is played with a hard ball and a bat between two teams of nine players each at a time on the playing field at once. Although many different people play Baseball all over the world it is most popular in the United States. It is so popular in fact, it is referred to as the national pastime of the United States because of the tradition and popularity associated with the game. Baseball consists of many complicated rules. It also has a very elaborate history. One can not fully understand the game America has grown to love until learning about not only the rules but also the history.

The media affects society in positive and negative ways. This can be seen in America’s national pastime baseball. Baseball is a sport that became the national sport in the United States in the late 19th century. From the beginning of the sport they tried to keep the highest standards to each player and ball club. There were times of scandal, but of all the things that happen to baseball substance abuse has been portrayed as one of the worst thing a player could do. To defame the baseball was to ruin everything the sport stood for. This research paper will look at one of the worst blotches in baseballs history, the steroid era.

Alex Rodriguez is the third baseman for the New York Yankees. He has been playing for the Yankees since 2004, but has been playing professional baseball since 1994. Alex Rodriguez can be considered to be one of the greatest baseball players of Hispanic descent and has broken records previously set Sammy Sosa, who is also one of baseball's greatest players of Hispanic descent.

"Derek Jeter, a professional ballplayer for the Yankees…" are the exact words Derek Jeter, himself, used in his eighth-grade yearbook (Jeter xvi). For as long as he could remember, Jeter has longed to be a New York Yankee. Fifteen years after predicting he would be a professional ballplayer for the Yankees, Derek Jeter is now more than a Yankee. Jeter isn't only a Yankee; he is a family guy and a World Champion. His career started when he was five years old, and everything has evolved from there. Sports fans know what life for Derek Jeter is now, but what was life like before he became a world champion, superstar, and captain of the New York Yankees.

He had to finish the season 6-for-9 to beat out Matty Alou and win the first of two close NL batting-title races.

The MLB is just a giant business. How can you see it otherwise? Steroids in baseball have changed dramatically over the past ten years and a major factor impacting the changes may be players’ use of performance enhancing drugs. Do these players not realize that they are cheating? They are putting a drug into their bodies to make them better then everyone else. In less than four years Babe Ruth’s single season record of 60 home runs has been broken by Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire and Barry Bonds. These were three of the players who were faced with a charge of using steroids and notice how they are three of the top hitters. McGwire just retired too, I think steroid use, and people finding out had a smidge to do with it. All these players aren’t losers, they are all stars and looked upon from all over and know are being accused of cheating. (Kingsbury)

1. Briefly, what are the major developments in the history of the labor-management relationship within Major League Baseball?

But one day Alex came home and saw everything was vandalized and the boy stole over 100,000 dollars in cash and lots of other valuables Alex had. Alex Rodriguez is famous because he is a pro baseball player. Alex has set a world record for the youngest player to ever hit over 400 home runs even though he hit over 690 home runs in his career of baseball. Alex Rodriguez was nicknamed A-Rod because he hit so many home runs in his career of baseball. Alex Rodriguez started playing pro baseball at age 18.

Mike Trout, Mike Trout is the best current player in the MLB right now. He is a dominate hitter, fielder and a great teammate. Mike Trout is a 6’2, 235lb player from Vineland New Jersey. He is in the top five in the league for all statistics except for strikeouts, not including the players that had one ten at bats because then they can have crazy stats. Some categories he is number 1 is he scored the most runs and walks. Mike Trout is the best player in the MLB.

Credibility is when how much you can or can’t trust someone. If all someone does is goof around and not follow directions then they have a low credibility. If you can trust someone and they don’t goof around then they have a high credibility. Ryan Braun had a high credibility when he was in high school, college, and even his early years in the Major Leagues. That was changed forever when he decided to use PEDs. Ryan Braun shows why credibility is an important quality to have and how cheating damages your credibility.

In 2014 the famous baseball player Alex Rodriguez was suspended for the season due to testing positive for using performance-enhancing drugs. The Yankees star continuously denied any allegations connecting him with the steroids but eventually claimed to be using products from a bio anti aging clinic in order to treat an injury. According to an article written by Allen St. John, “he has tested positive for both Primobolan and excess testosterone” (St. John, 2009). Eventually, Alex confessed to using steroids to avoid any more persecution and in hope that it might save how people viewed his career. Over the course of the situation Alex Rodriguez chose to handle the situation in a manner he deemed would conceal the truth from everyone. This in turn may cause a great deal of baseball fans to question his contribution to the sport as they further learn the details about his extensive use of steroids over the course of recent history.

“I'll never forget Opening Day in Cincinnati. When they called my name during introductions and a sellout crowd stood and cheered, I looked into the stands and saw Katie and our two kids, Sierra who's nearly 2, and my 6-year-old stepdaughter, Julia, and my parents and Katie's parents. I had to swallow hard to keep from breaking down right there. They were all crying, but I had to at least try to keep it together”(Tim Keown). This is a reaction that nearly passed by All-Star outfielder Josh Hamilton of the Texas Rangers. Josh Hamilton grew up knowing and loving only two things in his life, his family and baseball. With a steady head throughout high school Hamilton earned success on the baseball diamond. Attaining such honors as being named

Roberto Clemente was born in Barrio San Antón, Carolina, Puerto Rico, his father was Don Melchor Clemente and his mother was Doña Luisa Walker. Roberto was the youngest of 7 siblings; Clemente had 4 older brothers and 2 older sisters. Throughout Roberto’s childhood, his father worked as foreman of sugar crops located in the city. Because the family's incomes were restricted, Clemente worked along his father, loading and unloading the trucks. Clemente demonstrate curiosity in the of baseball when he was very young and often played against next-door kids from his same area. He went to Vizcarrondo High School in Carolina. During his first year in high school, he was recruited by Roberto Marín to play softball wit a team called Sello Rojo team after Mister Marín saw Clemente playing baseball in

Professional sports are a competition between the greatest athletes in the world. And when I go to a game, that’s exactly what I expect to see. Sports are entertainment. There is no room for purity and respecting the limits that athletes had in the past. Modern athletes should utilize all the resources that they have available to them. This includes steroids, which enhance an athlete’s performance. After all, performance is what really matters.

“Alex Rodriguez, from the New York Yankees, suspended for 162 games for using steroids” (History). The use of steroids has forever changed the world of professional sports, making it a world fueled by drug contacts instead of skill and talent. Steroids could possibly be legalized although there are many risks, people are caught everyday using steroids, people could be harmed from using steroids, and many negative consequences are caused from the use of steroids.