In twentieth-century America, sports became one of the most successful and exciting, but controversial cornerstones in American society. In the early years of the twentieth-century, America cheered both the players in professional baseball and the college football players at the nation’s finest institutions of higher learning. As the game of baseball appealed to a greater number of Americans, its players became icons. They became role models for young children and topics of social discussion …showed first 75 words of 2251 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2251 total…depressant, is probably the most camouflaged of them all. Baseball Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle, arguably one of the greatest baseball players of all-time, was what many today would call, “a booze hound.” Baseball’s Denny McClain, the last thirty-game winner, Billy Martin, former Yankee Manager and teammate of Mantle’s, Dwight Gooden, the Mets’ pitching phenom of the 1980’s and Golf’s John Daly all great athletes and sports people, but also all alcoholics.