Essays Tagged: "Sammy Sosa"

What we look for in a good leader and person. Integrity is a vital trait that is looked at to be moral and a mold of a righteous person.

defined. It is under looked and put aside when an ambition to win is the apple of the eye. Slammin' Sammy Sosa, lost his long achieved integrity during a game when he broke his bat and the referee fou ...

(2 pages) 109 0 5.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays

Role Models - A Look into Athletics

Kobe Bryant is accused of rape. Sammy Sosa is caught cheating. Tanya Harding tries to kill Nancy Kereagan. Despite the way athletes ...

(2 pages) 46 1 4.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner by Allan Sillitoe How does Smith face conformity?

of the most prestige's baseball honors.Another athlete, who tried to "buck the system" was possibly Sammy Sosa. Last season, Sosa's bat broke and it was noticed that his bat was corked, which makes hi ...

(4 pages) 43 0 3.7 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Performance-enhancing Drugs: Improve Your Game, Destroy Your Brain

ive for use of Human Growth Hormone, a steroid that can only be detected in blood tests (ESPN.com). Sammy Sosa, the runner-up to Bonds, finished with 64 home runs, clearly displaying the lopsided resu ...

(3 pages) 66 0 5.0 May/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Our Cheating Culture of Sports.

and he ranks top 10 in averaging the most home-runs in the history of baseball. Other players like Sammy Sosa did not use any kind of drugs to better his game-play; instead he installed a cork into h ...

(2 pages) 30 0 3.0 Oct/2005

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Steroids in Baseball

led a meeting which consisted of a Congressional Committee and star baseball players. Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, Rafel Palmiero, and Curt Schilling responded to questions, under oath, on steroids in th ...

(2 pages) 40 0 5.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Anabolic Steroids and The User

146;s performance. After 38 years, Roger Maris’s homerun record was passed by Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa. When they broke the record, critics swarmed these two players with suspicion of steroid ...

(5 pages) 26 0 0.0 Oct/2007

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Sammy Sosa The Super Hero

Sammy The Super Hero This past summer a major record was broken in the Major League. Roger Maris's h ... e person but by two people. It was broken by Mark Mcguire of the Cardinals with 71 home runs and by Sammy Sosa of the Cubs with 66 home runs. Most of the time people hear about Mark McGuire because he ... runs. Most of the time people hear about Mark McGuire because he had more home runs, but what about Sammy Sosa? After all he was a much more dominating player leading the NL in RBIs, hits, and total b ...

(4 pages) 1539 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Mark Mcgwire Vs Sammy Sosa

Although a lot of people play baseball two names that come to mind are Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa. McGwire and Sosa are very good hitters but are also so very different hitters. McGwire a ... wire and Sosa have many similarities and differences. IT is hard to compare Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa's statistic's because they haven't been in the league the same amount of time. The only w ... f his time at Wryler Children's Hospital P.I.P program in Chicago. Sunday games were once known as "Sammy Days" they were known as this because Sosa would give tickets to children less fortunate then ...

(4 pages) 1752 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Sammy Sosa Speech

The purpose of my speech was to inform my audience of what Sammy Sosa has done for the game of baseball and the community around him. I feel that I have achiev ... wering the questions, I thought to myself that I have achieved my goal of informing the audience of Sammy Sosa and what his life is all about.My introduction attracted the attention of the audience. I ... troduction attracted the attention of the audience. I started off by asking them if anyone knew who Sammy Sosa was. Everyone looked up at me when I said that, so right then and there I knew that I got ...

(1 pages) 1621 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare

German Story

Sammy Sosa was born November 12, 1968, in San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic. His mother, Lucr ...

(2 pages) 1347 0 5.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Sports

Steriods in baseball

cations’, offer to testify to George Mitchell. What if it is discovered that Bonds, as well as Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire, baseball's biggest and most popular stars, used illegal substances, how ... 47;steroid era, which is from 1996 onward.”During the home run battle between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa six years ago, McGwire was reportedly taking the performance-enhancing drugs androstenedi ...

(7 pages) 36 0 5.0 May/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues

A Sports World Divided

, one of the most feared linebackers in the NFL and a pro bowler was caught using. Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa were known for "saving" baseball during a time that needed superstars in the late 90s and ...

(9 pages) 25 0 5.0 Sep/2009

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

history of baseball

tion between the two.A. Two of the most amazing individual seasons happened in the same year, 1998. Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire had a home run chase of a lifetime. The two went back and forth hitting ...

(3 pages) 0 0 0.0 Sep/2014

Subjects: History Term Papers