Players Dedication

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Term Paper Title	Players Dedication
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Player's Dedication

     Playing professional baseball takes every available moment of one's time, and complete physical and mental dedication.  Famous baseball players are in the spotlight every game, and are seen as role models for other adults and children.  They are highly publicized and awarded, but what happens to them when their careers end, when they either become to old or hurt themselves?  Everyone seems to forget the old and find a new "favorite" player to root for, even though these men put their lives on hold to follow their dreams and entertain the public.
     Baseball players are looked at as celebrities.  Everyone wants their autographs, pictures, trading cards, and memorabilia of their favorite player and team, but when the players career ends they go back to a normal civilized life, like everyone else.  The only difference is they have missed out on a lot of little things through out life, which have added up to cause some players to almost regret playing baseball.
     The novel, Boys of Summer , by Roger Kahn, does a wonderful job in describing the Dodger players from start to finish.  After each player has retired, either from old age or injury, Kahn wrote a chapter dedicated to them about their lives after baseball and how they felt about retiring.  Most all the old players now hold steady jobs working with what use to be their fans.  They have gone from a well-known celebrity, back to an "ordinary" person.  Most of these players have realized that the dream to play baseball wasn't all that it was cracked up to be.  Sure it was fun, but it wasn't a very promising career.  At one moment it's a glorious day playing ball and the next day you wake up with a hurt arm or have lost that special "touch," that made you famous.  To spend ten years of your life, if you made it that long, eating, drinking, and sleeping baseball, wasn't worth it for some of these retired players.  They missed some important events and memories that can never be created again, all because baseball controlled their lives.
     One famous player, George Thomas Shuba, the second basemen for the Dodgers, was the first person to pinch-hit a World Series home run.  He quit in 1955, due to a torn ligament in his knee.  He felt that baseball was a waste of time for him.  After he quit he said, "It wasn't fun.  I was struggling so much I couldn't enjoy it" (253).  Baseball had put so much pressure on him that he went out on the field to impress people, to win, not have fun like it use ...

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