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Sports Markets and Demand Forecasting

for a number of reasons. For instance, when one takes a superficial look at any given culture, it seems as if there are certain "c...

Baseball Swing Anatomics

In a paper of ten pages, the writer looks at the anatomy of complex movements. A baseball swing is used as an example. Paper uses ...

Baseball and Performance-Enhancing Drug Use

This paper offers an overview of performance-enhancing drug use within the context of professional baseball. Six pages in length, ...

Steroids and Major League Baseball

in men. "Females who use steroids may have problems with their menstrual cycles because steroids can disrupt the maturation and re...

Performance Enhancing Drugs and Their Alteration of the Baseball Playing Field

April 8, 1974, everyone knew what they were doing on that memorable moment. By the 1990s, however, it appeared that baseball "had...

Overlooked Major League Baseball Star Roger Maris

of his surname) was born on September 10, 1934 in Hibbing, Minnesota. His Austrian grandfather had settled in the town north of D...

Cold World Impacts Documented in Underworld by Don Delillo

mind is obviously occupied with more important matters than baseball yet the stadium is coming unseated all around him and indeed,...

Ecuador and Texaco

including a primary pipeline that extends 280 miles across the Andes. To build the roads, forests were cleared and Indian lands bu...

The Anti-trust Exemption in Baseball

most, if not all their careers (Sensenbrenner, 2001). Back then, baseball could be considered in "dire financial straits," and the...

The Baseball 'Business' from a Sociological Perspective

makes more money for the team, so while a player may command a million dollar salary, the team owners profit much more than he doe...

Baseball as America's Favorite Sport

notwithstanding, Doubledays involvement in baseballs Civil War presence is what has come to represent the start of a national trad...

A Sport Scandals History

In 1876 for example, the National League had been created, something done to promote a more businesslike atmosphere for the game (...

Superstition in Baseball

Athletes that are motivated with a particularly profound need to succeed seek to control events and situations by any means possib...

Steroid Scandal in Major League Baseball and Congress

had used steroids and also claimed that as much as 50% pf the players used them (Schmaltz, 2002; 264). Another big name, Jose Cans...

Proposing Increasing a Minor League Baseball Team's Revenue Streams

as well. If pricing is too high, there will be more unsold seats. Another part of pricing is whether or not there should be tier p...

Sports and Steroids

to articulate and enforce some type of punitive steroid policy. The current penalties for positive use are as follows: Offense/...

Baseball Stadium Planning

of the contract to equal the additional hours of half days on Saturday during spring and summer. Assessment of Alternatives ...

'Tikkun Olam' and Commitment of Jewish Athletes

World War II after the Japanese bombed military installations in Pearl Harbor. He volunteered for active duty in the Marine Corps...

Faith, Good Sportsmanship, and Goodwill Promoted by Jewish Athletes

a high school player, Mother would go over to the box... and drop some coins in the box... I asked what she was doing and she said...

Sports and Cheating

breaks the rules to gain an advantage, that is cheating. Cheating is important not only because a lot of money is involved, and th...

Dance and Daily Life Movement

up his body from the legs, then the hips, shoulders, arms, wrist and finally the fingers as the ball is released from the pitchers...

The Korean Influence in Baseball

that continues to challenge social relations in contemporary society. "The willingness of the Dodgers to scout and sign Asian-bor...

Success of the Boston Red Sox and the Contributions of Manager Theo Epstein

to encourage it meant that history was made twice - both in the comeback against the Yankees and in the victory in the World Serie...

Government and American Major League Baseball

things such as television rights and licensing fees, while each individual team is responsible for marketing games to consumers. I...

Steroid Testing in the Major League

has a bill in place that would require all sporting organizations wishing to play in the state require drug testing (2002). Such...

Organized Sports and the Increasing Trend of Violence

violence in sports has serious implications for the direction of Western society in general, as well as negative implications for ...

Life and Short Stories of Ring Lardner

who they had both known was sent to the hospital after the game that day. Grimes, not realizing the Lardner is a reporter, and Lar...

Sports Marketing and Consumer Behavior

companys overall success than anything else. Being able to actualize, even if just in ones mind, the corporations ultimate goal w...

Aluminum Baseball Bats and Marketing Challenges

But what might be considered is that the increased hitting has added a greater measure of excitement to a game that has floundered...

Human Relationships and Baseball

more millions than they already receive (Kaplan, 2002). A comment from Kaplan sums up how many fans feel about baseball players: "...