Major League Soccer

athletes even if they have not been using performance enhancing drugs. There are many examples where athletes have taken advantage of these rules, like in 2005, 39 major league baseball players were suspended from baseball for using performance enhancing drugs during the season. There was also another case in 2013 when 13 major league baseball players got suspended from baseball from using performance enhancing drugs during the season. Some of the well known baseball players that have been…

Original Oratory Imagine working all your life to reach your end goal and somebody just cheated their way there and got there so much easier. How would you feel about that? Most likely you would be upset because that person that just cheated their way to success had such an easy path rather than working hard to reach the end goal. Well this is what is happening in sports around the world today. People are now starting to realize that some professional athletes have been using…

The influence that the Major Leaguers have on the younger ball players has significantly risen since baseball is televised all over the United States. The young baseball players spend countless hours trying to mimic their icons. This can just be as simple as batting stance, homerun…

originated before the Civil War and came from a game called Rounders. The initial baseball team in America was the Knickerbocker Club of New York in 1837. In consideration of how prosperous this club was prosperous, the National League was formed in 1876 then the American League proceeded from it and was established in 1901 (Feuer). As old as baseball is, recorded music still hasn’t been around as long as it. Although…

Life can throw you some curveballs and sometimes you hit a grand slam but sometimes you get hit and this is just how life goes. However some of those curve balls make you a stronger person. If you do not fail you do not get better, if you always win you will become cocky and act like you are going to win every time and then when you don’t win you act out. One time in my life I had gotten a curve ball and got hit was very recently. I was doing the sport that I love and that I am captain of the…

A Changing Era “The secret of change is to focus your energy, not of fighting the old, but on building the new” (Socrates). During the years of 1970 to present Americans experienced both devastating falls and great rises. For example, the Watergate scandal caused many Americans to question the government of the US. In addition, Americans emerged from the Cold War as a powerful country. Also Sally Ride became the first woman in space, opening many opportunities for other women to do great…

The Gamby Foundation was started in honor of the legacy that Geatano "Gamby" Gambardella left behind at the Little League and community of Rolando, California. Gamby started at Rolando Little League with his first son in 1954. He managed his second sons' team from 1968 - 1972, where his team won the Coast League the first time he ever managed a team. He remained active in the league as a manager in every division except T-Ball until 1990. While managing his teams, he was also active as a…

The Boston Red Sox began the process of saying goodbye to one of the most iconic Massachusetts’s player of all time at his final regular season game. 19 years after making his Major League Baseball debut, David Ortiz’s time as a MLB player is coming down to its final days. Since the Red Sox clinched the American League East, there is still time to see one of the best offensive player play out his magic during the 2016 postseason. Prior to Sunday’s game, the Red Sox honored Ortiz with an…

Baez has more than a dozen on his arms and some on his legs, his tattoos tell a life story! Javier Baez has one on his neck of the Major League Baseball logo that represents his “love for the game.” He has a tattoo on his upper arm of his sister, Noely Baez. She had died April 8, 2015 of spina bifida. On his wrist he has his mother’s name (Nelly/Nelida). His mom never liked tattoos, so…

perfect game. When I was six years old and had never played anything, but soccer and flag football, my dad asked me whether I wanted to play baseball for the summer or soccer. Of course it was like the toughest decision I had ever made at that time, as I was only six. So it took me a long time to decide. Trying to decide which one would be the best for me, I thought about the pros and cons for each sport. I had played soccer the longest and was the sport I was most experienced…