Israel Baseball League

Baseball is known as one of the most incredible and engaging sports in the nation. Several players all over the country, and even around the world, represent baseball by playing on high school teams, travel teams, and minor league teams as well, in order to reach the highest level of baseball, Major League Baseball, also known as the MLB. To this day, baseball is still one of the most dominant sports in America. However, baseballs reputation and character have slightly diminished because of…

Aviation” an article by Rebecca Maksel. The people in these stories faced life changing events and these events affected their countries. Jackie Robinson’s life changed when he became the first black man to play in the world series and Major League Baseball during a time of segregation in…

The movie Mr. Baseball, depicts the cultural differences between the US and Japanese. The movie uses professional baseball as the as the backdrop to enlighten us of a few of the cultural difference. These cultural differences span from business practices to sports for entertainment. Mr. Selleck as “Jack Elliot” cultural programming portrays him in the movie as an immature, arrogant, bad attitude major league baseball player who is past his prime. He brags, gloats, shows off, and makes a scene…

pertaining to the steroid era in Major League Baseball, along with the fan’s opinions of Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire and Rafael Palmeiro. These three players previously tested positive for steroid use throughout their time in the Major Leagues. While all three of these players showed remarkable talent throughout their Major League careers, their statistics will always be tainted, which influences peoples opinions on whether or not they should be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. The first…

“The question became do you take drugs to try to win or do you content yourself with losing forever by staying away from them?” (Charlie Francis, Reputations: The Ben Johnson Story) In Sports, each athlete has one similar goal; to be the best. This is where the introduction of performance enhancers become an issue as it’s an easy shortcut to certain success, which makes them even more of a temptation. Doping is a drug intake of banned substance to improve their results. Would you take the risky…

The notorious seven time tour de France winner Lance Armstrong who doped throughout his seven wins in cycling’s most notable and prestigious event admitted that if he could start his cycling career over again he would still dope (reference 1). Possibly the biggest case of doping in not only the sport of cycling but world sport he had repeatedly said during his career that he did not take performance enhancing drugs but one of his most famous quotes that makes him look foolish now is “I have…

Crack! The sound of the baseball hitting the bat and the sound of fans cheering the Red Sox on Sunday Night Baseball are wonderful sounds at a ball game. The smell of Popcorn and Cracker Jacks fills the air of Fenway Park. This is all great at any baseball game, but it’s most enjoyed when you're with a person you love. This all happened when I went on a trip to Boston, Massachusetts with my dad for his birthday. This experience started in Spotsylvania,Virginia where we were giving my dad…

The writer of the paper I peer edited was Wilson Lee. The topic he was arguing over was bodybuilding and steroid use. He states that today people use steroids in bodybuilding today and it is ruining the sport, causing death, and giving the builders bad temptations He was against the use of steroids as it harms the human body and removes the competition of bodybuilding. He states that steroids have landed the bodybuilding profession into infamy due to steroids and drugs. The thesis statement is…

Christopher Hayes used examples such as baseball steroids, Hunter College, Enron, Countrywide, and so many more, to not only exemplify what they are doing/did do wrong, but how our entire country is becoming a criminogenic environment and that there may be no way to save it before we hit rock bottom. A specific example that Hayes talks about is when he discusses Major League Baseball (MLB) and steroids. Ever since I was a little girl, baseball was a big part of my family, so I could talk and…

“A minute of pain is worth a lifetime of glory,” - Louis Zamperini. Wise words to live by for a man. Louis was a United States Olympic distance runner and a United States prisoner of war survivor of World War II. Louis was born on January 26,1917 in Olean, New York. Louis had trouble with the law before his big track career. Once Louis cleaned up his act, he ran track for Torrance High School in California. In 1934, Zamperini set the national high school mile record with a time of 4:21.2, his…