Transitions

I plan on using the story I described in my research paper as the foundation for my creative piece of literature. I will use Barry Bonds accusations in my creative writing. Using the reserach I did about this specific topic in my creative writing will provide for a very smooth transition between the two assignments. [...]

Outline of Creative Writing

Pulp Baseball: Home Run Ficiton I plan to use my research from my research paper to create the image and guidelines of the story of the main character and his struggle with steroids. I plan to use my personal experience with steroids to map out the outline of the story. How does steroids affect baseball [...]

Blog # 14

After reading In Cold Blood and completing my research paper, I believe that both will help assist in making this piece of creative writing very strong. Both displayed strong roots in research.  In Cold Blood was based almost soley on research, while my research paper took hours of research to learn about my topic. I [...]

Home Run Derby

The story of Todd and his involvment with his high school baseball team is based on factual information discovered through research.  Todd attends Cumberland Valley high school where he is a 17 year old junior. Todd is an average student and is the starting third baseman for the varsity baseball team.  Baseball can be a very [...]

How Does It Feel Now That The Majority of the Hard Work Is Done

It’s unbelievable to think that we have spent the whole semester up to this point formulating and constructing our research paper.  Looking back on all the exercises I did to prepare myself for this paper, I feel like they really helped me.  Without those helpful in class and blog exercises, I don’t know if my paper [...]

Strengths and Weaknesses of My Paper

I believe my paper does a good job of providing a vivid description and perspective of baseball fans view of the steroid era.  I provide examples of many baseball analysts and my own perosnal accounts of how steroids have affected how baseball is viewed by the fans.  I also believe that my paper does a [...]

Outline

A Baseball Fans Worst Nightmare I. Intorduction a. define what the “nightmare” is. Steriods has been a thorne in the side of major leauge baseball for more than a decade. Fans are crushed by the on-going news of the illegal usage of these performance enhancers. Fans on sports talk shows are continually bashing the game [...]

Annotated Bibliography

1.  Sports Illustrated,the Mainstream Press and the Enactment of Drug Policy in Major League Baseball.  Bryan E. Denham  http://jou.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/5/1/51. 2.  Athletes and Steriods:Playing a Deadly Game. Roger W. Miller. FDA Consumer ,Vol 21, November 1987.

In Cold Blood

“Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.”(http://thinkexist.com/quotations/research/)  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi’s quote goes hand in hand with Truman Capote’s interest in the Clutter family murder.  His desire to research and investigate the events which occured on November 15, 1959, propelled him to see what nobody else had scene; the truth.  The novel [...]

Baseball’s Addicting Drug

Steriods has been a fixture in baseball for over a decade, causing many fans of the game to question how baseball officials plan to attack this thorne in their side.  Baseball is America’s game.  Many sports fans have looked upon baseball with an attitude of frustration.  This is not how the comissioner wants his game [...]