The history of baseball is a lot more complicated compared to other sports. There is no (real) definitive answer as to how or who started the game of baseball. However, there are some theories, the most common theory, “references to games resembling baseball in the United States date back to the 18th century. Its most direct ancestors appear to be two English games: rounders (a children’s game brought to New England by the earliest colonists) and cricket,” (History.com Staff). When the American Revolution occurred there were many different variations of this game that were being played in schools of all levels, from elementary school yards to college campuses. Overall, the basis of the sport did not start in the United States of America, but …show more content…
There have been many players in MLB have used and been caught using PEDs and have faced serious penalty. The biggest case as of recent years was the Alex Rodriguez scandal. After a positive urine test, he continued to deny the use of PEDs but later, like half a year later finally committed to using them and was suspended without pay for a whole season. He is not the only player to use PEDs in the MLB but he is one of the ones to be caught in recent years. It is obvious that using drugs to enhance performance is banned, but there is the ethical debate of why? The main reason people come up with is that “ it is, basically, cheating – which implies a theft of opportunity from other players of the sport. When one player gains benefits – monetary compensation, fan appreciation, seasonal honors, statistical records, etc – by using performance-enhancing drugs, he does so by shouldering a lesser burden than players who do not use drugs,” (Belousek 2014). That being said, a lot of players who have been in the game a while and their skills are starting to decrease feel like they need to keep up with the younger generation of players entering the world of baseball. However, the older players are not getting any younger with their age, or their body’s ability, so their way of keeping up is to use PEDs so that their recovery time is shortened to what it used to be so they can keep up with a 162 game schedule. Another example of this would be Chris Colabello with the Toronto Blue Jays last season. He was suspended 50 games for the use of PEDs but claims that he does not know how they entered his system, but many people believe it was the case of not being able to keep up with the younger generation, especially Tom Valcke, who has been around baseball for over 35 years. During one of iCASE’s practices he made this statement, “He may love the game but if
According to a passage in the 19th Century Baseball website, author Eric Miklich writes that America’s pastime may have originated in Canada. Miklich tells the story of Dr. Adam E. Ford who wrote a letter about a game which had been played in 1838 which was described to have several key differences than baseball. Many people believe that baseball evolved from games played in England- mainly cricket and rounders. Others believe the German game of town ball is where it all started. October 6, 1845 was the first baseball game on record. One of the teams playing that day were the New York Knickerbockers. The Knickerbockers, led by “The Father of Baseball” Alexander Cartwright, are known today as the first official baseball team. Cartwright published the original rules of baseball (Miklich). Throughout the years, baseball has seen it’s fair share of great players and managers while evolving into the sport we know and love today, but not without controversy.
The game of baseball was started such a long time of go that nobody truly knows the origin of the game that became America’s favorite pastime. However we do know when the first professional baseball team was formed in 1869. That team was the Cincinnati Red Stockings. the Red Stockings went on a trip of the U.S. playing 57 games against all comers, they won all 57 games. But that was not the starting point of organized baseball. In 1857 “the Knickerbocker club of New York City invited several neighboring bands of players to assemble and agree upon a standardized set of rules.” This latter grew in to the National Association of Baseball Players with the primary goal of keeping it an amateur sport. This latter changed after seeing how well the Red Stockings did and a new organization was formed, the National Association of Professional Baseball Players. But was a short lived league as by 1876 just 5 years after its inception it
One of the underlying issues with the PED problem is that it does allow a player to gain more power with their hits. The extra power is not caused by the drugs directly, but by the fact that the drugs allow them to train harder, longer, and have shorter recovery times than normal. Power hitters are always considered the elite player, which makes sense because most people want to see home runs. As one player stated “Home run hitters drive Cadillacs, single hitters drive Fords” (Solberg, Joe, and Richard Ringer). Gaining better numbers creates an increased incentive to start using PEDs. The highest regarded records in baseball are all home run based and the players
In Major League Baseball, numerous players have put up tremendous statistics and record breaking numbers. There are a great amount of players in the league that have done this naturally, however it is not uncommon to see star players get caught taking performance enhancing drugs or steroids. Steroid use in baseball has been an issue since the earliest days of the game, and can be seen very frequently in players today. Jose Canseco was a star hitter in the major leagues, who had admitted to steroid later in his career. Canseco once estimated that 85% of other players were also taking performance enhancing drugs. Though that estimate is not proven, there are still many players today that are taking these steroids, and it needs to remain an issue in the eyes of the MLB. Taking these drugs not only promotes the risk of significant side effects and health problems to the player consuming them, but it makes changes to the game itself as well. The way the game is being played has changed over time due to this issue, and players are receiving advantages that other players are not. Overall, these illegal drugs are unfair to other players in the game and simply are not safe, and should never become legal in the league.
The history of baseball in the United States can be traced to the 18th century, when amateurs played a baseball-like game by their own informal rules using improvised equipment. The popularity of the sport inspired the semipro national baseball clubs in the 1860s.
First, I would like to talk about the start and the origins of baseball. Baseball originated from a game
Because steroids were not deemed illegal in baseball until 2005, players like Clemens and Bonds felt like they were not breaking any rules or regulations. Although they may not have broken MLB rules, they broke the spirits of baseball fans all over the country. Over the past fifteen years, the players have thrown their morals away at the first sight of a $. Without thinking about the kids who one day want to slug seventy homers in a season, major league players have set an example by saying “Well, I guess it’s ok to cheat to be rich and famous.” Millions of little leaguers all over the world look up to these athletes. Look at the message that is being sent to the kids when their role model is injecting steroids just to be good at a game, how far must it go? Steroids are not only unfair to the fans of the game, but also the other players in the league. It is not fair to the players who play the game fair currently or to the retired players whose reputations are comparable to those of the players who took shortcuts to succeed. The fair players should not be referred to as “Pretty good for not taking steroids” to label their caliber. Steroids have ruined the credibility of many great talents in the game of baseball and need to be eliminated.
One of the most common arguments is the one of unfair play. While some say that it allows other players to get an advantage over the other by having a more ready access to safer and more effective PEDs and others say that it is an unfair advantage because some players will chose to not use them because of philosophical reasons or just dislike of the drugs. And then there are those who argue that allowing the drugs will make no difference to the current playing field because along with access to better PEDs the other teams also have access to better training giving them another unfair advantage, and no one will just ban the use of physical training to level the playing field. ( “Top 10 Pro & Con Arguments - Drug Use in Sports - ProCon.org.” Should Performance Enhancing Drugs (Such as Steroids) Be Accepted in Sports?, sportsanddrugs.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=002352.) However some don’t mention how unfair it is but rather the coercion the players would have to take these PEDs, however the main arguments against this is that these players would be influenced in the same way as when coaches ask for them to practice while not with the team, or to ask the team to run another full practice that day. So how could we blame the medium of improvement for what the user dose, it’s not the fault of the PED so much as the pressure placed on the players by their surroundings.( “Top 10 Pro & Con Arguments - Drug Use in Sports - ProCon.org.” Should Performance Enhancing Drugs (Such as Steroids) Be Accepted in Sports?, sportsanddrugs.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=002352.) it is very prevalent in multiple teams around the world, yet it is quite the same story in each place. The proof of this can be seen in how several former East German swimming team coaches come
The use of PEDs is illegal in sports, I believe that it should stay that way. Many athletes have had their lives ruined from PEDs loosing the ones they love or dying themselves, and there are many horrible side effects that include, mental problems, and even death. Also, when someone is taking PEDs and another isn’t in say football then the person who isn’t could get very hurt, in short PEDs should just be dropped out of professional sports. If PEDs stay in professional sports (illegally) then many more people will die. Weather it is from another person or yourself. Having PEDs in professional sports give the athlete side effects that are hard to live with, doesn’t even guarantee that the drugs will work-the risks are high and the chances of it being good are low- they set a bad example for kids and teens around the world who look up to the pro athletes who take PEDs, lastly it will hurt the other athlete or yourself.
The earliest known reference to baseball as we know it in America was in 1791 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. There was an ordinance banning the play of the sport within 80yds a town meeting center. No one is exactly sure of the origins of baseball but many believe it to be a variation of the English game of “rounders”. The very first team to play the sport of baseball
Many would argue the game peaked during the 1998 home run race between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa. This race jump started the sport and began to heal the tension that brewed between the game and its fans after the cancelation of the 1994 World Series. Of course, this home run race was not the only reason fans came back to the game. The anticipation to see one of the greatest pitchers of all time in Rodger Clemens, one of the most talented baseball players of all time in Barry Bonds, and sluggers such as Jason Giambi and Jose Canseco, were surely going to draw a large viewing. Each of these players has had some connection to performance-enhancing drugs. We can sit here writing articles and opinion pieces arguing why performance-enhancing drugs should or should not be allowed in this sport, but there is no argument when it comes to the stats and when we, as fans, have witnessed the best baseball to ever be played. Any fan of the game will admit that one of the best things in sports is a homerun. In 1996, 17 players hit 40 or more homeruns. In 2008, only two players hit 40 or more homeruns (Rymer 2013). We are seeing better, more exciting baseball during the steroid era, which is considered to take place from the end of the 80’s and continued through the 2000’s, than we’ll ever see during any other era of baseball. Players are hitting more homeruns, while pitchers are throwing their best balls when they’re in there 40s (Pantuosco 2011). PEDs should be allowed in baseball because first, we, as fans, get to see a higher competition level while players are on such drugs. Second, these drugs create an even playing field for all players. And third, do we as fans even care if these athletes take these
The start of the game of baseball is unknown, but some people believe they know when it started. The game of baseball believes to start in England. The start of baseball was around 1760, the game was called Rounder. Rounder had the same rules as baseball today, but it had its difference. The biggest difference was that a fielder had to throw the ball at the runner to get them out. The game changed in 1845. A group of people got together to talk about the game. They wanted to make the game safer. They changed the rules of the fielder. He would not throw at the baserunner anymore; they must tag the baserunner with the ball. The equipment changed as well when they made the rule change. They started to use a harder ball.
Baseball originates back to 1800s, from a man named Abner Doubleday, who was a Union Officer during the American Civil War. Some say he invented the game in Cooperstown, New York, in 1839. There’s limited amount of information and facts on Doubleday being the original creator of the game. A more accurate response to the question of how baseball originates would be that many scholars believe that baseball was invented way before we can tell. In ancient cultures, such as those of the Persians and Egyptians, there is evidence of games being played with balls and sticks. Games similar to baseball continued to be played by civilizations throughout history but it was not until the early 1600s that Europeans first brought games involving a ball and a stick to the Americas. There were a number of various games played with a ball and a stick but the one that most resembled baseball was an English game called Rounders. The rules of Rounders are a lot simpler than the ones of modern day baseball but it was from
Baseball is known for being Americas Pastime, because of how great the history this sport carries behind it and how it was created almost a two-hundred years ago. Abner Doubleday invented baseball, though they claim, in 1839 and was also a Civil War hero. This is not true, and many people believe that he was the inventor. “There really is not a true inventor of the sport, it really came from two English sports, which are rounders and cricket that originated in the eighteen-hundreds. When the American Revolution happened different variations of the English games rounders and cricket were being played all over America and those games made a new one, baseball.”
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 they are cheating. But are they really? They are made to enhance your performance of doing a sport right? With this, i claim that we should in fact head the opposite direction and legalize PEDs.