Integrating Sources

Example 1

They were all banned from baseball for life, whether they have record of participating or not. Fred McMullin received $5,000 to participate in the scandal and grounded to the Reds second baseman to end the game, but as a witness he claims “He never participated in the scandal and he didn’t do anything wrong”(10). This confession is a clear indication of the lying and gambling taking place in baseball.

Example 2

In the book Moneyball by Michael Lewis more specifically chapter nine "The Trading Desk", Billy Bean, the general manager of the Oakland A's, uses innovative techniques of appraising talent and selecting baseball players based off of statistics. His team is one of the lowest payed teams in baseball and he admits "There are rich teams, and there are poor teams, then there's 50 feet of crap, and then there's us"(12). He focuses on a modernized, analytical, and saber metric approach to assembling a competitive baseball team, despite the team's disadvantaged revenue situation.

Work Cited

Everstine, Eric W. 1919 Black Sox Scandal. N.p., 1998. Web. 19 Sept. 2011.

  <http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/Departments/hpolscrv/blacksox.htm>

Lewis, Michael. Moneyball: the Art of Winning an Unfair Game. New York: W.W. Norton, 2003. Print.

Mayer, Frank. "Alleged Baseball Scandal." Mayer Brown and Platte Oct. (1988): 1-29. Print.