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    odriguez Alex Rodriguez grew up playing the game of baseball at age 4.He played his dad one on one his dad beat him but it inspired him to do better.Years passed for Alex Rodriguez, in high-school he was a gifted football player but on the baseball field he was a bigger star. In his Junior year, he hit .477 batting average and stole 42 bases in just 35 games.He led his High-School baseball team to the State Championship.Before the 1993 draft Alex was inspired to go to Miami…

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    displayed in 1919 when “ The Greatest Scandal in Sports History” took place and astonished many people who looked up to some of the world’s most popular athletes. The Chicago White Sox players took money, or a bribe, to play poorly and lose the world series. The aforementioned players were banned from baseball forever, for their conduct, but weren’t convicted of gambling in a federal court (Barnes 285). This ignominy resembles the corruption in the real world, referring to the gangsters and…

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    This book was about the MLB and how the American and National leagues were different. They also talked about players like Mike Trout, Babe Ruth, and Clayton Kershaw. They also talked about how the Yankees were the best ranked team; they have over 20 world titles while their rivals (the Boston Red Sox) only had 8. Ever since the early 1900’s the two teams have been rivals. Baseball was famous around the late 1800’s. Baseball is referred today as America’s Pastime; many Americans have been playing…

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    Who is Babe Ruth? Babe Ruth is known as the greatest baseball player of all time. In his successful career as a baseball player Babe Ruth is recognized for his record breaking accomplishments. Babe Ruth was born on February 6th, 1895 in Baltimore, Maryland. He was the son of George Herman Ruth and Kate Schamberger one of eight children. When did his baseball career take place? Babe Ruth was 19 years old when he was launched into his very successful baseball career. He first played in the big…

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    Baseball Salary Cap

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    There are always exceptions, but generally, the teams that spend the most money in the sport on their rosters tend to win the World Series every year.’’This quote shows how every team should have an equal chance of winning the world series. Also, all of the small teams have an disadvantage. Also, not a lot of teams with small payrolls will make it into the world series. For example ’’Since then, only two small-payroll teams have even made the Fall Classic: the 2008 Tampa Bay Rays and the 2014…

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    Baseball back in the 1990's was a popular sport to go to and have some food or drinks. Baseball was an exciting game. The New York Yankees were very popular. They have won and been to many World Series. Baseball has come a long ways in the sport to not being popular at all to becoming one of the most popular sports in the world. Baseball had a lot of effect on the world with different races to play the game. The New York Yankees were the popularity in baseball in the 1990's. There biggest…

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    Kelk is a British award winning and bestselling author that was born in Doncaster, lived in Nottingham and London before moving to the New York and Los Angeles in the States. So far, she has more than thirteen novels in the I Heart series, two e-novellas, A Girl series and several freestanding novels. Her novels have been so popular that they have been published in more than twenty language all across the globe and gone on to sol more than a million copies. She spends much of her tome…

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    Memorial Coliseum for four years. In 1962, the Los Angeles Dodgers moved to Chavez Ravine, also known Dodger Stadium, which is the third oldest Major League ballpark in North America. Between Brooklyn and Los Angeles, the franchise has won 6 World Series titles, accumulated 13 Most Valuable Players and 17…

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    who managed the Cleveland Indians to within one game of winning the 2016 World Series, left his mark on Major League Baseball when he led the Boston Red Sox to the championship in 2004, in his first season as manager. The Red Sox broke an 86-year drought and the curse of Babe Ruth, with an improbable comeback in the American League Championship Series. The team rallied from a 3-0 deficit in the best-of-seven series with their hated rival, the New York Yankees. Baseball purist are people that…

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    Clutch In Sports

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    2004 American League Championship Series, the Boston Red Sox faced off against their most hated rivals, the New York Yankees. The Red Sox were already in the midst of an 86-year World Series drought known as “The Curse of the Bambino.” 2004 was the closest Boston had come to winning a World Series title since the infamous Bill Buckner error in 1986. Red Sox fans had believed all year long that this was THE year. However, after being down 3 games to none in the series, the Red Sox faced…

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