Major League Gaming

Did you know that in 2012, one hundred major league baseball players were caught using steroids, reported by bloomberg view dom. Those numbers are just the players that got caught using steroids, not the ones who abused the system and didn’t get caught. This is not surprising considering that 5% of high school boys that play baseball use steroids, according to marie.gov. Steroids give professional baseball players an unfair advantage against those who don't use them. Steroids make bigger,…

Barry Bonds Have you ever had an obstacle that you had to overcome? Do you know someone who has every had one? Well I do, his name is Barry Lamar Bonds. He is one of my role models. Barry once said ” Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.” (BrainyQuotes, 2015)…” I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.” (BrainyQuotes, 2015) Well I feel like everyone needs to know your story to see what almost every black…

"Keep your eyes on the ball," said my parents. I was an ambitious five year old, and ready to learn how to play baseball. My little brother and I are five and a half years apart in age. We have a good relationship, but we still fight and bicker sometimes. He can have a short temper sometimes, but the more time we spend together the closer we become. A couple of years later my little brother asked, " will you teach me how to play baseball?" So I did, and the next day we went to the baseball…

Performance Enhancing Drugs have became a unfortunate constant problem in baseball. Hall of fame players such as Mike Piazza, Roger Clemens and Mark McGwire are just some of the names that used PEDs. Other notable players that have taken PEDS consist of Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez, and Sammy Sosa. These substances have put a stain on baseball. There's a reason there is a era that is called the "steroid era" I call Barry Bonds "The Fake Dinger King" because of the fact that he used those…

The Day I Hit My FIrst Dinger!!! Today I am going to be telling you about when I hit my first “Dinger” homerun in baseball. Have you ever had the blood running through your body, adrenaline rushing, and heart pumping so fast it was about to pop out of your chest? Me neither until that day at the plate. Sit back, grab your popcorn and get ready for this exciting story! I woke up to the bright, warm, colorful sky at about 8 o'clock to get ready for a fun, exciting day of baseball. I got all…

The main conflict in Million Dollar Arm by J.B. Bernstein is that it is hard to adapt Indian cricket players, like Rinku and Dinesh, into American baseball players, especially while simultaneously having to deal with the culture shock of moving to America. Cricket uses a different arm motion than baseball. As newcomers to the sport, they have to adapt, and get the many years of training their competitors have in a short amount of time. First, cricket players use a different arm motion compared…

they enter the Big Leagues. An academic paper written by Arturo Marcano and David Fidler in 1999 discusses the mistreatment of Latin American baseball players during the signing and recruiting process. Often, these players are so poor that they take any contract put in front of them and do not realize that their American counterparts are getting paid a lot more than they are. The competition for talent in Latin America is so intense that some scouts actually pay little league coaches for…

When I look back I see times when I could’ve made a better choice and other times that I wouldn’t change a bit. Playing softball with MJBSA is a choice I wouldn’t want to change. I’ll admit there were times when I wished the umpires had a better understanding of the rules or the other team would tone down the drama but overall MJBSA and my coaches did a great job. It is through softball that I saw my parent’s dedication. Softball also strengthened my relationship with my family. At my games, my…

Jackie Robinson despite being faced with many threats and insults throughout his time in the Negro Leagues, joining the MLB, and his retirement showed people how one man can make a change. Jackie Robinson, the man who broke the color barrier, journey was not an easy task as people may think, with many struggles in his path. By “breaking the barrier at the age of twenty-eight” (Linge 56) and being able to fight through his struggles and not giving up showed how much strength he had. These…

Last year during the baseball season, I was running into a plethora of problems such as not making contact and not getting hits. This made me feel hopeless and listless, as I had played baseball for years, and playing the sport was one of my favorite hobbies. Feeling unable to do anything about my predicament, my coach said that my teammates and I could come to the cages whenever we wanted to. I realized that this opportunity was the solution to my problem. I went to my team’s batting cages…