2009 Major League Baseball season

Mike Trout is a great baseball player and inspires young children's everyday and New Jersey Baseball player. Mike Trout was born on Wednesday, August 7, 1991 in Vineland, New Jersey. His father, Jeff played baseball at the University of Delaware. He was drafted in the fifth round from the Minnesota Twins and played in their farm system and busted his knee out and ended his career at second base. Mike grew up a diehard Phillies fan and attended the World Series Parade in 2008. Mike Trout started

in Major League history. However, this record is controversial, due to steroid use. B. Thesis: Today I am going to persuade you all about the use of steroids in Major League Baseball, persuading you why steroids should not be allowed in Major League Baseball. I have a call to action for all of you to help others if they are considering using steroids, and next time you watch a MLB game to realize the impact of steroids. C. Credibility: Gave my informative speech on Steroids in Major League Baseball

Baseball has been one of the most popular sports since the 1700s. Over the years baseball was a segregated team. This changed once Jackie Robinson joined the major leagues. He was a well-known African American baseball player. “On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson broke the so-called color barrier by becoming the first African American to play in Major League Baseball” (Worker’s World, 2007). This created some controversy over the years. With Robinson playing in the major leagues, this helped change

Pro Salary Cap According to Dan Oleary, “Since baseball is the only major sport without a salary cap, and with the way baseball’s big-spending teams throw around money, having a different winner each year seems to defy logic” (OLeary). A salary cap is issued in every professional sport’s franchise, excluding Major League Baseball. With no salary cap, one club can dominate it’s competition on money alone. The New York Yankees spend the most money on it’s players each year (Goldman). It is no coincidence

Derek Jeter has announced that after this upcoming 2014 season he will be retiring from the game of baseball. In honor of this decision I wanted to recognize some of his amazing achievements as a Yankee but also as a leader in the MLB. From an early age Derek Jeter was being scouted and projected to be a major league star. As a senior in high school, many professional teams including the Colorado Rockies scouted Jeter. A copy of the scouting report on Jeter says, "This guy is special. You get

Christopher Lyn "Chris" Davis (born March 17, 1986), nicknamed "Crush Davis", is an American professional baseball first baseman who is a free agent. He stands 6 feet 3 inches (1.91 m) tall and weighs 230 pounds (100 kg). Davis played in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the Texas Rangers from 2008 until being traded to the Baltimore Orioles in 2011, where he remained until the end of the 2015 season. He bats left-handed and throws right-handed. While primarily a first baseman throughout his career, Davis

Baseball; America’s pastime. The history of the game is just as much a part of America’s story as the Liberty Bell. There is no place that history is preserved more than the small town of 1,800 residents, Cooperstown, NY; home of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Since 1936, the Hall of Fame has immortalized 215 of the most revered men to ever grace a ball diamond. Nearly every era of the game is depicted; with names like Cobb, Ruth, DiMaggio, Williams, and Mantle forever having their likeness

profession was the sport baseball. According to ("How Baseball Began," n.d.) no one is sure how baseball began but it took over the sport cricket. It also stated that this game was played during the Civil War for recreation. In the earliest stages of baseball, the players were not paid for their participation in the sport. Baseball easily became the America’s favorite sport and its favorite thing to do to pass time. I’m going to focus on a certain time period. Between wars baseball had a sufficient

Introduction The four major sport leagues in the United States consist of the National Basketball Association (NBA), National Football League (NFL), Major League Baseball (MLB), and the National Hockey League (NHL). All of the leagues have some similarities in their implemented drug policies, such as the need for testing athletes. Although the policies have similarities, there are many differences within the leagues, as well. Drug testing in professional sports has increased, due to the rise of players

given game day there are beer-guzzling, hotdog eating fans around the park and in surrounding neighborhoods. Wrigley Field has been the center of baseball for the north side of Chicago and will be for many years in the future. Wrigley Field was built in 1914. Wrigley Field was designed by Zachary Taylor Davis for a federal league team, the Chicago Whales. When the park was first built it was called Wheeghman Park because the owner of the whale’s last name was