Barry Goldwater

According to Ken Gurnick of MLB.com, Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig’s one-game suspension has been rescinded, after being appealed. While Puig is no longer being forced to miss a game, the Players’ Association and Major League Baseball have agreed that the outfielder will make a charitable donation instead. The suspension stems from an incident on June 13th, when the Dodgers and Indians clashed at Progressive Field. Following his own two-run home run in the second inning, Puig threw up both middle

You are at a baseball game with your favorite team playing against another team. You’ve bought your hot dog, pop, and other refreshments and sit in the bleachers. You have been waiting for this day for a while now, in hopes to get an autograph from your favorite player, but you’ve found out that they have been discounted from the game for using Performance Enhancing Drugs (PEDs) but… why? They can’t be that bad can they? For this topic, most people would say yes and that we should ban all PEDs because

In 1998, the movie Rain Man, starring Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise, hit movie theaters and became a major hit. On opening weekend, the movie earned $7 million and eventually earned over $354 million worldwide. The character played by Dustin Hoffman was an autistic savant. For many people, this was their first introduction to autism. The public awareness this movie gave to autism did much to dispel many incorrect ideas about those who are affected by autism. Autism disorder, a developmental disorder

It is hard to decide who truly deserves to be in the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame because it is hard to pick out those who used steroids and other performance enhancing drugs from those who did not. Many would like to say that athletes in all sports always keep it clean and play fair, but this is rare these days. Doping in sports has always been a problem. However, it seems that the number of athletes who dope has increased dramatically over the years, doping sacrifices many values and cheats

Rudy Baylor, the star of the film The Rainmaker, gets a dose of reality as he enters the legal profession right after law school. Rudy is a young, unemployed lawyer desperate for a job. Without any connections to prestigious law firms, he is forced to accept his first offer from J. Lyman "Bruiser" Stone, fraudulent and just all-around shady personal injury attorney. Rudy soon meets Deck Shiffler, a self-proclaimed “a paralawyer”, with some certainly unethical tactics. Rudy begins to accompany Deck

The worlds worst problem in baseball taking steroids in baseball,which makes it an unfair game for everyone around people who take steroids(Ashby 1). Barry Bonds is one example of someone who took steroids, he holds the record for the most home runs hit in his whole career, but it really wasn’t fair at all because he took steroids. It isn’t fair for anyone playing with someone who has steroids. This essay will be about why steroids makes the game unfair. This paper has been written to tell you why

Cheating: PEDs in Baseball PEDs, or performance enhancing drugs, improve player’s execution of the game at all times. In baseball, two of the most common types of PEDs and steroids and HGH, or human growth hormone. Starting in 1988, there was a steady increase in steroid usage until 2006. Since then, there has been a decrease in the amount of players using steroids, however, in 2008, there was still a whole 42% of players who used steroids. Aside from temporary bans from playing, steroids have many

The Steroid Era of Baseball When people think of Barry Bonds, steroids and the homerun record holder should come to mind. There was a time when Bonds didn’t use steroids, when he was early in his career and he was considered a great already. So what drove Bonds to begin using steroids if he was already great and continuing to get better? If people look back into baseball prior to Bonds, they can see he wasn’t the one who set the rules. In the early 70’s is when steroids started to become prominent

It is 2011, bottom of the 9th inning with 1 ball and 2 strikes, 2 outs and the Rangers are 1 strike, 1 out, and just 1 win from a World Series Championship, but then out of nowhere, “TRIPLE, TRIPLE.” David Freese had that triple and it scored 2 runs and then he actually 2 innings later won the game with a walk off home run. That is just one thing that just makes baseball noticed and so popular. It just shows anything can happen at any time. Everyone deserves to know how popular the sport of baseball

Rain Man: Autistic Savant An Autistic Savant is an individual with a(n) skill that is above an average individual (Research: Autistic Savant, n.d.). The film Rain Man ( Levinson & Guber, 1988), is about a car dealer man named Charlie Babbitt played by Tom Cruise, who learns about his fathering passing away and leaving three million dollars in a trust with a mental institution and not to Charlie. Charlie then goes to the institution to find out why his estranged father would leave the money with