Magical Moment

Baseball has always been considered as American as apple pie. If that is true than cheating should be just as American. Ever since the creation of America’s favorite pastime, baseball, cheating has been a major part of the game. Each era of baseball has showed more complex ways of cheating the game. Although, cheating in baseball has been around since the introduction of the game, only few scandals have really made history. Some of the most famous scandals include the Black Sox Scandal, the gambling of Pete Rose, and the use of steroids by players to enhance their performance. Despite these corruptions the game has still managed to stay America’s most loved sport.

One of the most controversial subjects in Major League Baseball is that of hall of fame voting. Players who have tested positive should not be eligible for the hall of fame ballot. This is a great honor for players who are truly great and play the game the right way. The hall of fame has no room for players who try to gain unfair advantages through performance enhancing drugs. One of the greatest players of all time, Pete Rose, was denied from the Baseball Hall of Fame do betting on his games. This shows how seriously the voters take being inducted. Players who have tested positive for steroids should be banned from the hall of fame, which is what Major League Baseball is moving toward.

ERA. In 1917, Babe Ruth went 24-13 with a ERA of 2.01 and played in 35 out of 38 complete

Attention Getter: On August 7th, 2007, Barry Bonds hit home run number 756, passing Hank Aaron for the most home runs in Major League history. However, this record is controversial, due to steroid use.

Everybody knows that Henry Aaron holds the record for the most career homeruns. But most of them probably do not know that he also holds the record for the most career Runs Batted In (RBIs) with 2297. The reason is that this record is not as glamorous. Well, not everything about Hank Aaron was glamorous. He had to overcome great odds and work very hard to get where he is today. Henry Louis Aaron was born on February 5, 1934. Ironically, Aaron was born one day before Babe Ruth’s birthday. This was right in the middle of the Great Depression. Because of the fact that it was the Great Depression, his father was lucky to bring home seventy five to eighty dollars per week. His childhood was not luxurious. Something that he used to do for fun

He made 462 home runs, which put him on the 32nd place of all time MLB players. With the number of his home runs, he is the one of the 11 players in history that made 400 runs or more and 200 stolen bases.

On May 5, 1978, Rose became the 13th and youngest player in Major League history to collect his 3,000th career hit, with a single off Montreal Expos pitcher Steve Rogers. On June 14 in Cincinnati, Rose singled in the first inning off Cubs pitcher Dave Roberts; Rose would proceed to get a hit in every game he played until August 1, making a run at Joe DiMaggio’s record 56-game hitting streak, which had stood

Rose’s Hall of Fame story started September 1985, during a game at the Red’s home field. During this game, Pete Rose got a hit. Hits were no big deal in Rose’s career; however, this one was different. This was hit number 4,192 for Rose. He had just broken the hits record (The Pete Rose Controversy).

He also finsished tied in RBIs with Edwin Encarnacion. Ortiz led the American Leaugue and Major League with a 1.021 OPS and in doubles 41.On Novemeber 18th,2015 he official annouced he would retire after the 2016 season. On May 14th,2016 at Fenway Park. Ortiz hit a walkoff double to lead the Red Soxs to a 6-5 victory over the Houston Astros. It was his 20th walkoff hit,and the double was his 600th of his career making him the 15th player in MLB history to reach this milestone. He also joined Hank Aaron and Barry Bonds as only the third player in MLB history with atleast 500 career homeruns and 600 career doubles. On August 24th,2016 in a game against the Tampa Bay Rays at the Tropicana Dome, Ortiz hit his 30th homerun of the season,making him the oldest player in a season to reach 30 homeruns. Later in the same game Ortiz hit his 100th RBI of the season. It was the Tenth time he did so in his career, a Red Sox record. He hit his 625th career double two days later playing the Royals, passing Hank Aaron and moving to 10th all-time on the list.On October 2nd,2016,during a pregame ceremony at Fenway

Each year Records are broken by different players and teams. Even though there are Hall of Fame records that are broken there are still season leaders with records that are changing every day. One example is that Matt Carpenter has 15 stolen bases for the year in the National League, but that leader could change the next day when Kris Bryant gets two steels in one game and takes the lead with 16 steels. Even though there are Hall of Fame records, and league leaders there are still one more leader the team leader. For every

In 1970's they started showing improvements. The Houston Astros set a team record for hits during a game with 25 against the Atlanta Braves on May 30,1976. They finishing in second place in 1978. During this time some of their players were Joe Morgan, Bob Watson, Jimmy "The Toy Cannon" Wynn, and Cesar Cederno. Their pitchers were

It’s Saturday, October 1, 1932 at Wrigley Field in Chicago. It’s a bright and sunny day. It’s Game 3 of the World Series between the New York Yankees and the Chicago Cubs. And the grandstands are jam-packed with nearly 50,000 fans.

When I think of my childhood watching baseball, a few players always stick out to me. Those players include my favorite player of all time Sammy Sosa, Mark McGuire, Barry Bond, and many others. Those three specifI remember thinking that they will be first ballet Hall of Fame. They were way too good for anything less than that. Now it is 2015 and none of the three are in the Hall of Fame. Why?, you may ask. you ask? The main reason is all of their connections to P.E.D.s (Performance enhancing drugs). All have allegedly used these to improve their performance on the field and make the game more exciting to watch. One of the most memorable things in baseball going on in the so called “Steroid Era” was the historic

Montgomery threw the ball at an easy seventy-seven-mile rate. The crowd consumed their fingernails in anticipation as everyone sat at the edge of their seats, praying and hoping for the title of a lifetime. Indians player Martinez hit the ball into right field, almost directly at third base. An atmosphere of anxiety overwhelmed the Progressive Stadium for the tenth inning of the seventh game of the World Series; the Chicago Cubs and the Cleveland Indians were tied seven to seven. Kris Bryant stepping off his base to retrieve the ball, leaned down with a grin plastered on his face, grasped the ball and drove it to the guard at first base, Anthony Rizzo. His foot tagging the base before Martinez even had the chance to capture his position on the field. The stadium erupted in amazement. For the first time in 108 years, the Chicago Cubs had won the world series. The excitement, the thrill had everyone in shock. The curse was beaten, the books would have to be rewritten, history was made; the wall that held the previous victories would now welcome the Chicago Cubs for the first time in a century. Baseball fans’ imaginations’ went wild with the possibility that they could

In the game of baseball, catching a ball is an everyday action and is no big deal to most players, but for some, it creates a legacy for themselves. The Right Fielder’s love for the game of baseball is expressed by how he always has to urge to play and did not care as much about the position he is playing. Though he wants to play the game and leave his mark by doing so, his team does not believe in him doing that. The Right Fielder’s team shows that they do not believe in him by assigning him the position normally the worst players would play, never getting balls hit in his direction and never getting to know him. In the story Death of the Right Fielder, by Stuart Dybek, the symbol of the ball found in the mitt of the Right Fielder shows that one must do what they