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    The MLB (Major League Baseball) has banned steroids, better known as a type of PED (performance enhancing drug). I insist steroids should not be banned from the organization. With the ban, we will never know what could have been the absolute potential of each player that made it to the big leagues. Steroids will benefit the league because they prevent many injuries, which is beneficial to the ballplayers and their teams club. Steroids being allowed leads to baseball becoming more popular, which…

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    the field. I loved the outfield, it was my home. My last year of Little League was fantastic. Learning that I was the first draft pick was exciting. It was a little weird getting back into the motion of Little League. I had previously played a full year of baseball on a travel team. In travel baseball the fields are much bigger. Not one of my teammates could hit a ball over the fence; however, going back to little league, we all hit homeruns. The team I was drafted…

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    Robinson would be named the first black player in major league baseball, playing for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Until Robinson, the major leagues and the minor leagues were racially segregated. Jackie Robinson broke the color line, first in the minor leagues in 1946 . He then broke the barrier once again one year later, in 1947, when he began his contract with the Brooklyn Dodgers. He was named Rookie of the Year and took home the National League MVP Award in 1949, followed with a world Series…

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    fourteen points, and the League of Nations. However, these things were ultimately the three causes of World War II, the continuation of World War I. These foolish choices and decisions caused by the Allied Powers helped set the stage for World War II. The Treaty of Versailles helped stage World War II because of the foolish choices and decisions made by the Allied Powers upon forcing Germany to sign the Treaty of Versailles. According to Article 231 of the Treaty…

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    The failure of the United States in the Paris Peace Treaty meeting, and the absence of its support in the League of Nations definitely hindered the recovery from World War 1 and weakened the United Sates influence on post events. Whether or not President Woodrow Wilson is at fault has been debated since the events of the First World War. It is believed that the president must hold the responsibility for the United States` actions and failures since he had acted on the United States behalf, but…

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    America is known for being a country of freedom and opportunity. So when the question of joining or not joining the League of Nations was brought upon the American government, many saw it as keeping or losing the power to decide what the United States intervenes in. The argument about joining or not joining the League of Nations, came down to personal vendettas and small details. The idea of a council of leaders, from different countries is a good idea when executed correctly.. Wilson tries to…

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    Baseball is one of the best sports to play and watch. It has changed a lot since it has been invented. Now there is Major League Baseball also known as the mlb. There has been a lot of teams in the mlb and a lot have been around for a long time. The Globe Life Park in Arlington is the home to the mlb team The Texas Rangers. It wasn’t always Globe Life Park though, It’s original name was The Ballpark in Arlington from 1994 until April 2004. It changed its name to Ameriquest Field in Arlington…

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    Elite pitchers have been the story in Major League Baseball(MLB) this past season. Many pitchers were outstanding and fantastic all year, but there were two pitchers that set themselves apart from the rest by becoming the true elite pitchers, Clayton Kershaw and Jake Arrieta. Clayton Kershaw was brought into the MLB in 2006 by the Los Angeles dodgers. Being an already effective pitcher, Kershaw got drafted in the first round, getting the seventh pick overall. He would make his MLB debut on May…

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    Reading this document “World War I and the League of Nations”, I have captured Wilson’s principal purpose in deliverance was to present a practical choice both to the traditional notion of an international balance of power gained by alliances among nations. As President of the United States, Woodrow could pass some very important legislations on those and many other issues, pledging to keep America out of World War I. Though he proposed to keep America out of World War I, Once Wilson knew that…

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    the United States as a minority can be extremely challenging and discouraging at times, but Jackie Robinson set a hopeful example to many people that the color barrier could be broken as the first African American to play for the Dodgers in a major league sport. Throughout my life I have been faced with odds that have not been in my favor, and with casual racism, but I have prevailed in a similar smaller scale. I attend a small high school of five hundred thirty seven students, and eighty…

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