Major League Baseball

¨Time to go!¨ yelled Mom, ¨Ok let me just put away my toys and grab my gear¨ I anwsered. It was Summer 2013, I was 7 years old and I was going to my final game of the baseball season.Thinking about how I would, considering I was playing with kids 2 to 3 years older than me. When I had arrived the team was already starting to practice. The game was about to start, so I got ready to gear up and play. We were defending intially and the opposing team was hitting…

this game as star quarterback Carson Wentz tore his ACL and is out for the season. With that, the Eagles have turned to career backup Nick Foles, who has had an ugly season since Wentz was injured. But, the Eagles have one of the top defenses in the league and a very solid running game. On the other hand, the Falcons are fresh off of a super bowl appearance and have just defeated the Rams in the last round, highest scoring offense. The Falcons rank top ten in both total offense yards and…

Preformance Post-Op in Major League Baseball Players The Performance, Return to Competition, and Reinjury After Tommy John Surgery in Major League Baseball Pitchers: A Review of 147 Cases, was written by six authors. Eric C. Makhni, Randall W. Lee, Zachary S. Morrow, Anthony P. Gualtieri, Prakash Gorroochurn and Christopher S. Ahmad, whom are all respected Doctors in the Sports Medicine field co- authored this paper and preformed all of the research needed first hand. This article is a research…

During 1938 baseball season, a great and prominent baseball player named Lou Gehrig noticed his performance on and off the field was not what it was supposed to be. He found himself stumbling over curbs and when running bases, he was more tired than usual, and he was fumbling the ball. On June 19, 1939, he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) on his thirty-sixth birthday. In the same year, Lou Gehrig retired from baseball, still considering himself to be the luckiest man alive…

use is a problem in every sport, but no sport compares to baseball. In a game where home-runs bring in the money, players usually do whatever it takes to get an edge. This includes taking performance-enhancing drugs that cause many health issues and permanently damage the body. The Steroid Era saved Major League Baseball because of increased attendance to games and income due to home-runs. On August 12th, 1994, the Major League baseball players association went on strike. The strike lasted 232…

The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it. Jackie Robinson has done a lot for baseball of all leagues. Jackie Robinson has changed Major League Baseball for the better. Jackie Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia. He was raised with four other siblings in Pasadena, California by his mother and uncle. His Father left the family when Jackie was a baby. Jackie had to help his mother out by delivering…

Imagine being apart of a professional baseball team; although you are apart of a big league ball club, unfortunately you are located in small market city. Due to being located in a city with a low population, television providers such as Fox or NBC will not offer to pay your club the same amount as they pay a major market team. The idea is simple, smaller population equals less money. This is a fair and understanding point if it simply relates to the profit for the owners and shareholders of…

Twenty years ago baseball was graced with an abundance of talented African American players. Players who broke records, won championships, and captured the audience of America. Now the same amount of black talent in this sport is hard to find. There aren’t as many black stars as there once were. Yet, baseball can renew the interest of the sport among the African American community, and all signs appear as if they are at least trying to do so. Back in the 90’s baseball had star players on many…

The Steroid Era in Major League Baseball has been one of the biggest pops in Professional Sports since the 1980s. Steroids or PEDs are a way of cheating the game by gaining a huge advantage over every non steroid user in any way possible. Major League Baseball is a game that revolves around talent and being able to make outstanding plays both mentally and physically to put your team on top. When steroids are mixed into the game, it amazes people for the abilities that some players have compared…

The color barrier in the Major League Baseball (MLB), at the time officially known as the white man 's game, was changed in 1947 when Jack (Jackie) Roosevelt Robinson would sign with the Dodgers. He would become the first person to ever do so. Many people would not describe him only as an athlete, but a social activist and a hero. In the book Opening Day author, Jonathan Eig describes Jackie’s life prior to signing with the Dodgers, through his early career in 1947. Also, throughout the book,…