Barry Bonds is the best baseball player of all time. Even before people accused him of using steroids‚ Bonds accomplished things on the baseball field that most can only dream of. Bonds started his career in the National League in 1986‚ as a member of the Pittsburg Pirates. His first four years in the League started slow and his numbers were very average for an every-day MLB player. From then on out‚ there was nothing average about Bonds’ career. Throughout the next 10 years‚ from
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12/13/12 Summary My letter to the Baseball Writers Association of America addresses the issue of the use of performance-enhancing drugs in Major League Baseball and the induction of accused players into the hall of fame. I argue that no player should be left out of the hall just because of steroids for several reasons. Unfortunately‚ steroids were a part of the culture of the game during the steroid era and it is about time that we accept that. Baseball is a competitive game in which you need
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Babe Ruth is one the most remembered players in baseball history. He’s one of the best batter of all time. He changed baseball in so many ways . He played baseball until he couldn’t play anymore due to medical issues. Babe Ruth is my role model because he’s the greatest baseball player. "Ruth major league career began with Boston Red Sox in 1915 as a pitcher"("America the Beautiful"). This quote shows when he first started his career. He focused more on pitching then being a batter. He laters start
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Marijuana Should Not be Considered As a Lethal Drug In out society drugs are considered to be addictive and lethal. People tend to abuse drugs regardless of their side effects. In many cases government agencies regulate their use. Also there are drugs that are illegal to use‚ produce and sale. One of those illegal drugs is marijuana. For thousands of years‚ marijuana has been used to treat a wide variety of sickness. It became illegal in 1937 under The Marijuana Stamp Tax Act. This act prohibits
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of Love. Several of his songs have been featured in films such as Wonder Boys and Natural Born Killers‚ which opened his music to new generations. Leonard Cohen was inducted into the American Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and The Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame and he has also received the Order of Canada and numerous other awards over the years. With 13 studio albums under his belt‚ including the most recent‚ Popular Problems launched in September 2014. He has
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[sixty-two] in baseball. On September 8‚ 1998 ‚ Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals made history by hitting his sixty-second homerun. However‚ many people believe that McGwire’s record is tarnished by the revelation that he had been using androstendione ‚ a compound that temporarily boosts the levels of the male sex hormone testosterone. This finding drew attention to a growing problem with performance-enhancing drug use in professional and amateur sports. Performance-Enhancing drugs harm the health
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sport‚ such as baseball‚ is actually quite simple. It takes a mix of talent and even more hard work. I have seen a very large number of athletes come through this high school with all the talent in the world‚ but had no work ethic. Talent is only a fraction of what is needed to be great. The process of becoming a great baseball player takes talent‚ hard work‚ and a ton of practice. Baseball‚ being the second hardest sport in the world is a hard sport to stay discipline at. As a player‚ he must make
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Dying to win: Drugs in sport and competition Athletes at all levels are exposed to the pressures to win and achieve excellence in the sporting world. These pressures can take a negative toll on athletes‚ driving them towards the use of performance-enhancing drugs (Simon‚ 2007). Since the 1960’s when doping regulations came into practice‚ drugs and sports has become a hot topic of moral and ethical debate on whether drugs should or should not be taken by athletes to enhance performance despite performance-enhancing
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Dear committee of the Hero Hall of Fame‚ I’m sitting here shocked at the fact; Beowulf seems to be missing from hall of fame. Beowulf is the greatest hero of his time. He possesses the most important qualities of a hero being courage‚ in-human abilities‚ and selflessness. Furthermore this heroic legend puts on a display of ridiculous amount of courage many times. He stated‚ “I have heard too‚ that the monster’s scorn of men is so great that he needs no weapons and fears none. Nor will I.”(166-169)
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Wrongfully Convicted: Innocence Being wrongfully convicted of a crime is a life changing experience. Over ten-thousand innocent people every year have to go through this horrible event. (http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/ronhuff.htm) Eyewitnesses take up a big told in why this happens‚ they will look at the line of people and tell the officers the wrong person‚ maybe not on purpose but the affect they will have on this persons life is unlike any other. Being wrongfully convicted means
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