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    It seemed just like yesterday, back in the glory days. Back then, nearly two decades ago, life in the Saint Louis area was perfect. Unlike today where Saint Louis is known for its crime and violence, years ago conditions were different, the talk of the town used to be about the Cardinals baseball team, they were once the pride and joy of the city. Constantly in the news after win after win. For example, on this particular day on September 8th, 1998, a night that no Cardinal fan would dare to forget

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    Performance Enhancing Drugs (PEDs) have been only in displays. Story shows that given that the premature 1900s, Olympic runners have been mixing their very own recipes they really assumed will strengthen the jogging efficiency. Perhaps a near-lethal blend during brandy and strychnine was first useful for an Olympic marathon runner inside 1904. By way of 1928 the Global Association of all Athletics Federation expanded the first overseas wearing federation and energy to reduce doping as of athletes;

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    Baseball in America Essay

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    Baseball in America is about as common as Cricket is to Indian Nations. Baseball was played and was also participated by everyone. People played it everywhere from large cities to even small towns. Children and even adults were playing. The game of baseball was invented between 1861 and 1865 which was before the American Civil War. Many of the people that know of the game of baseball reference as the “National Past Time”. Many people played baseball or even played the cousin sport called softball

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    Sammy Sosa was a baseball player for the Chicago Cubs, Texas Rangers, and the Chicago White Sox. Sammy Sosa gave the nation a lot of entertainment with the competition he had with another baseball player. He had his reputation ruined, but never did give up baseball. Even though he did not win the bet, Sammy was not a sore loser. Sammy Sosa was the right fielder for the Chicago Cubs who had hit more than 100 home runs in 2 seasons. (http://search.ebscohost.com) Sammy’s mom, Mireya Sosa, was

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    Observational Learning Theory In studying Frank Sinatra through the lenses of the Observational Learning Theory much can be understood. Albert Bandura’s Theory states that individuals learn by observing. His experiment included a Bobo doll an adult actor and a child observer. Bandura picked an object, a bobo doll, that the children had never been exposed to and their fore did not know how to react to it. He then had the children observe the adults hitting and kicking the doll. Then when the children

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    use the steroids even if it is not allowed. The PEDS are out there and every athlete would use them if they were legal. Steroids should be legalized because it would make sports better. There have been many people over the years like Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Barry Bonds to people like Alex Rodriguez and the steroids have made the players better and make the game better to watch. People need to know about this because it is becoming an issue in sports and it could change sports forever if they legalize

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    Magical Moment

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    Bailey Brush Ms. Davis College Prep English 1 31 March 2017 Mark McGwire’s Magical Moment The year of the home run, 1998, as described by Lisa Brush. The race between the St. Louis Cardinals’ slugger Mark McGwire and the Chicago Cubs’ own Sammy Sosa. “It wasn’t just about the home run record, it was a symbol of the St. Louis - Chicago sports rivalries. It meant a lot to the people of St. Louis, especially baseball fans” (Brush). The two cities are not very far apart, which results in the clashing

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    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

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    The busts of hundreds of players, managers, coaches, umpires, and baseball pioneers occupy the hallowed halls of a quiet building located in Cooperstown, New York. Thousands of fans travel to this building, otherwise noted as the National Baseball Hall of Fame, each year to get a glimpse of baseball’s immortalized heroes. Hundreds of sportswriters across the nation weed out numerous hall of fame hopefuls once a year and cast their votes on who will be enshrined in Cooperstown and who will merely

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    Hall of Fame Steroids Paper

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    David Haynes Mrs. Szabo ENG – 102 5 December, 2012 Hall of Famer? Major League Baseball (MLB) has always been one of the worst offenders of players engaging in questionable behavior. With the MLB featuring as a key example in the steroid debate, how can the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) electors decide which players are eligible to be inducted into the Hall of Fame? Located in Cooperstown, New York, the National Baseball Hall of Fame is in anticipation for new members. An

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