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Christian D’Antonio Ms. Chakraborty Chemistry 21 25 March 2016 Research Paper Superpowers at Your Fingertips 9.79 seconds. 762 career home runs. 7 Tour De France wins. All of these statistics are extremely impressive, and one would think they would be world records. They were at one point. But former Olympic sprinter Ben Johnson, MLB baseball player Barry Bonds and cyclist Lance Armstrong all have admitted to using performance enhancing drugs (PEDs), also known as anabolic steroids, thus…

ball which will allow their team mates to run with the ultimate goal of a homerun. Baseball is a game that millions of people enjoy with their families and friends, although it is a sport this game also can intrigue the minds of math lovers everywhere, baseball can easily be broken down into number whether it be the amount of games played or the positioning of the plates on the field math and number are visible. A baseball season consist of 162 games and run a full 26 weeks long not including…

was known for the things that he did off the field. He decided to marry a 17 year old waitress and also had enough money to buy a very nice house for the both of them ( Schwartz 3) . The also adopted a daughter and raised her in there brand new home. Ruth could not handle a marriage and his fame in baseball, so the marriage ended. Even though they separated they remained married because of there beliefs ( Schwartz 3). His wife eventually died in a house fire, leaving him with his daughter. A…

The Story of Baseballandia “It was a beautiful day at the royal empire of baseball andie King Dalton “the Home Run Hitter” Areias was getting crowned.” “Now I announce you King of Baseball andie King Dalton “the Home Run Hitter” Areias is now officially crowned.” “Every baseball player was clapping and cheering it was a new rein of a king reporters like Kayley was asking him about what laws were going to be made and he said that he was going to do his best to be a good king” “Later that year…

Perfection For about a week I have tried to find the write words to explain to people what it is like to be a perfectionist. How would you describe it? Someone who strives to be perfect. Someone who everyone wants to be. A person who dose not stop until everything in there life is perfect. I only wish that was what perfection is like. You see “At its root, perfectionism isn’t really about a deep love of being meticulous. It’s about fear. Fear of making a mistake. Fear of disappointing others.…

Ever since I was a child I have loved baseball. My parents let me play and watch all sports as a child, but I was drawn to baseball for as long as I can remember. I played baseball from the time I was five years old to the time I was fourteen years old, and the only thing that stopped me, was an injury. In eighth grade, I managed to tear the labrum in my left shoulder by diving for a ball and jamming the shoulder while landing. Sadly, I had to switch over to golf, but I have never lost my…

teenager (about fifteen) his father died in a fight with one of his own family members they were both under the influence and George’s wife died under mysterious circumstances. While George was playing, in 1919 he hit 59 home runs in just one season. In fact George hit, in all, 714 home runs in his entire career. He made his final appearance in a dodgers game in 1943. (“History Channel Babe Ruth”) Then, in August 16th, 1948, The great Bambino died of throat cancer from all of the chewing tobacco…

The physics of the game involves the starting speed of the ball and its velocity so that if the pitcher throws the ball harder – the batter will have fewer chances to score a home-run. The reason for that relies on the fact that the batter has to overcome the starting speed of the ball which travels in the opposite direction to the one that the batter wants. The baseball player hits the ball and loses energy to turn the ball in…

Sports have been a key component to human civilization since the beginning of time, as our ancestors created and competed in a large selection of different physical competitions. Taking in these different sporting events, has become a huge form of entertainment for many people. Looking into the past, the only way to enjoy these games was to actually visit the ballpark a team was playing at. Even today, thousands of fans show up to a ballpark on a nightly basis to find some joy out of watching a…

record belongs to Roger Maris, who in 1961’s season hit 61 home runs, and set a stage that has not been replicated with legitimacy, meaning without the aid of steroids and other PEDs. There was actually a movie created about Maris’s 1961 milestone, called 61* The three players that have broken Maris’s record were all on the influence and use of anabolic steroids (Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire). Sosa knocked sixty-six home runs in the 1998 season, which originally broke the record,…