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“Crack!” The sound of a baseball flying 400 feet off a bat. “Smack!” The sound of a 103 mph fastball hitting the catcher's mitt. “Whoosh!” The sound of a sprinter breaking the world record. These sounds represent what will happen if doping is legalized. Although these sounds may be more exciting to fans, steroids are not allowed in sports for a reason. Despite the positives of performance enhancing drugs, doping should not be legalized in professional sports because it would ruin the “spirit of…

The summer of 1947 was a summer Myers remembered wholly. Jackie Robinson and Larry Doby were the first Negro people let into Major League baseball, Joe Louis was heavyweight champion of the world, and “Sugar” Ray Robinson was the welterweight champion. “The New York Amsterdam News, our local weekly Negro newspaper, suggested that the United States was now going to treat Negroes as equals for the first time,” Myers recalled on page 35. He also recalls his life being revolved around school and…

having mood swings because of using them.”Steroid use by professional baseball players went largely unnoticed before 1998, when Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals hit seventy home runs in a single season Then it was proven that baseball players such as Mark McGwire and Barry Bonds have been using steroids to enhance their performance”(Steroids in baseball,1).Many athletes have been involved with drugs, so professional leagues have become more strict on how they test players in order for the…

The Cubs curse After 108 years the Cubs have won the World Series. The curse was put on the Cubs 108 years ago but recently broken. The curse was put on the Cubs because a guy and his goat couldn't go. William Sianis approached the gate to get into the game and he was told that he wasn't able to go in because he had a goat that smelled bad. Williams goat couldn't go in because of its stench, but the goat even had its own ticket. When William was told he couldn't go in he said that…

This book is an autobiography of Josh Hamilton. He tells the struggles he had to overcome to get where he is today. If you do not watch baseball, odds are, you don’t know who Josh Hamilton is. Josh Hamilton is a Major League Baseball player from Raleigh, North Carolina. He had one older sibling named Jason. Josh was so good, when he was seven, he was playing on Jason’s team, which was for eleven year olds. By the time he was in middle school, he was already being scouted by MLB teams. He was a…

multiplex of gut wrenching stories about athletes who are banned for life over things that are so far less severe then steroid use as told by Brady Sinko of Miami University “Major league baseball also has a huge steroid problem. Pete Rose, who surely would have made the baseball hall of fame, was caught gambling on baseball games. Although he was one of the best hitters in the history of the sport, he was banned from the hall of fame forever. Meanwhile, Rafael Palmeiro was caught taking…

to these accomplishments. Today, it is all too common to watch once­celebrated athletes fall from grace by committing crimes. Yet, after these athletes complete their punishments, they are welcomed back into their sport with arms wide open. From baseball to football, all professional athletes who break the law, in addition to doing time in jail, must be banned from their sport. By banning criminal­athletes, they are forced to take responsibility for their actions,…

leads the people. There is not much here in this small town that is any different than twenty years ago. There are still the same restaurants. There is still only one park. Basketball is still the most popular sport, closely followed by Football and Baseball. However, in the past few years a new sport has started to push its way forward into the spotlight. Soccer has planted itself into this community and is developing rapidly through the youth of the county. Soccer was a relatively unknown…

thought out. The Gwinnett Braves have a logo and name to their major league organization it helps the casual fan recognize that they are a part of the Atlanta Braves organization. Since the Gwinnett Braves share the same mascot as Atlanta, they can use the same logo on the uniforms, with only the…

Jose Canseco, a Major League Baseball (MLB) player who admitted to the use of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs), once said, “I don 't recommend steroids for everyone, but for certain individuals, I truly believe, because I 've experimented with it for so many years, that it can make an average athlete a super athlete. It can make a super athlete incredible. Just legendary” (Bodley). PEDs promote muscle growth without the fatigue that comes with normal muscle building activities, allowing…