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In the 1860's the game of baseball was first played in the United States, since then the baseball has become America's pastime. Many people have played this game, the greats we call them, Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, Ty Cobb, and Cy Young. These along with many other great players set records in feats that to this day have not been broken. These players now live for ever in the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY. Even the players who have broken those records have been come the greats of a new generation of loyal fans. One man broke the hardest record of them all in September of 1985 he got his 4,192 hit, eclipsing Ty Cobb's record, he them when on and made his own name when in all he had achieved 4,256 hits total. No one to this date has made it that far. That in enough should guarantee safe passage in to the hall in Cooperstown, but Major League Baseball found out that he had bet on baseball as a manger of the Cincinnati Reds in the late 1980's. Because of that one act he was......

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