Baseball

There are major rule changes, legue saving events and many problems that where resolved over the period after 1945.  The first one was that the players where not allowed to leave any helmets or equipment on the field, also it is disrespectful to take off your glove before you get off the field. There are always constantly more and more rules to help out the batters because of the disadvantage that all the batters have. An anti spitball rule was written because the moistened pitch cause major delama because of its odd break. probably one of the most controversial rules was the pitchers mound being dropped 5 inches because of how nasty all of the pitches where and it was hard to see the ball coming from such a high angle making it almost impossible to hit.

Some key events in baseball saved the sport really and brought in more viewers like myself. there is always a period of time where there are no major super stars so no one can really go and watch anyone play cause therer is really no one to go and see. Players like Nolan Ryan, Reggie Jackson, Dennis Eckersley, Bo Jackson, Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, and Randy Johnson all finally brought some publicity to the legue after going into a drought. The one that has to stand out the most is the homerun race between Big Mac ( Mark McGwire) and Sammy Sosa. The two battled to the end of the year and they both achieved in breaking a major legue record that they thought would never be broken. Sammy did it first reaching 66 home runs with only two weeks left in the season. Then big mac who was stuck on sixty two finally got on a hot streak and made it to 70 home runs a really big accomplishment. It saved the game of baseball.

I Choose this topic because baseball is a huge part of my life and without it i dont know what i would be doing. All of this information is off of my basic knowledge off the top of my head because of all the baseball history i know.