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Jared Short Professor Hartman 1 November 2010 Research Rough Draft Major League Baseball was officially founded in 1869. Although the league has been around for approximately a century and a half, the implementation of instant replay in baseball has only been a key point of discussion for the last half-decade or so. Personally, I believe that full implementation of instant replay in baseball would be a horrendous idea on behalf of Major League Baseball. My thought is that one bad call has never, to this date, cost any team a championship or the opportunity to win one. Many people who argue for the implementation of instant replay use the very recent example of Armando Galarraga. I will agree that Galarraga’s “perfect game” was indubitably robbed right before his eyes, but it didn’t affect the outcome of the game. The Detroit Tigers still shut out their opponent, and won the game. Galarraga didn’t become the first pitcher in Tiger’s history to throw a perfect game or become only the 21st pitcher to hurl nine perfect frames, but it doesn’t matter. What supporters of instant replay can’t seem to understand is that the game of baseball is not one that is marked by individual achievement. Baseball is a team sport.