...Extreme Baseball Crack! The bat makes contact with the ball. “Wahoo!” Everyone on the bench is screaming with excitement. The next aggressive batter is up on the plate and everyone is really hyped. Boom! Everyone became silent. Immediately, everyone stood up and hollered with so much excitement. Devin (are best player) hit another homerun. His second, this season and we only played three games. We all kept cheering, but the game is not over yet. “We need to hit some more!” we all shouted loudly. In an instant, “Back at it again!” Coach yelled. Someone else hit a homerun as well. He hit an inside the park homerun. Everyone on are team was going crazy. Kids on the other had their heads down and was feeling embarrassed. At first, I felt pretty bad for them but they still fought and scored some runs on us...
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...joined the baseball team. You're probably thinking, “baseball is a boy’s sport,” and you're right. That’s exactly why I joined the team. My dad taught me that there are no boundaries that I can’t cross, especially being a girl in a world that experiences differences based on gender. He opened my mind to a world of possibilities that I could take on. So, I stuck with baseball, and I was pretty good at it. Through this experience,...
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...The odds of a high school player getting the opportunity to play on a Major League Baseball team are one in 6,600, which is equivalent to 0.015 percent (ProSportsOdds.doc). Ever since I was a little kid playing T-ball, I have always aspired of one day making the major leagues. There is no better feeling than stepping on a baseball diamond: smelling the fresh-cut green grass, feeling the soft, raked dirt, and seeing the opposing team you are about to go to battle against. Baseball has always part of me that I can not live without. It stays with me everywhere I go. I am always thinking about baseball, playing it, or talking about it. The odds of making the major leagues are against me, but I am willing to do anything to get the opportunity to play baseball at the highest level possible....
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...A Class When you hear the word, “Failure”, what do you think of? Do you imagine being down in the dumps? Or being scared or not doing good? I think of being down on something, but then learning from it, and use it as motivation to prove other people and yourself wrong, by showing them/you that you can succeed. That is what I mean by “success in failure”. Ryan was a great baseball player. He knew what to do every time he was out on the field. He knew how to carry himself on and off the field. He knew how to be a good teammate and knew how to win every situation. People would consider him a great ballplayer. It was a warm Summer afternoon on a Saturday. Ryan’s team had advanced into the league’s championship series, which consisted of over 500 teams from all over the eastern coast. His team, the Capital Sluggers, went 45-15 to get here. Everyone on his team had an outstanding season, but Ryan’s stood out the most. He finished the regular season with a .676 batting avg. , 71 stolen bases, 145 hits, 42 home runs, 105 runs batted in, 206 runs scored, a 3.006 slugging percentage, a 2.925 on base percentage, 98 extra base hits, and a whopping 6.891 on base plus...
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...My First Baseball Hit When I first joined baseball I joined it because my parents said that I had to play in a sport. So, I chose the only sport I had ever heard of besides dodgeball, which my parents didn’t consider it a sport. I never wanted to play baseball, I thought “Great, I get to sit in a field for hours on end”. I wasn’t good at it either so I was always sent to the worst position, right field. Since I was in little league nobody every hit that far which meant I was stuck in a field with 2 other people that also had no clue how to play. Only once did a ball come to the outfield. It came right to the right field, deep right field. I didn’t catch it. Discouraged by that fail, I kept putting myself down thinking that I couldn’t do anything right. Batting was different, never hit the ball. Every time I struck out I got a little more discouraged, thinking I would never hit the ball. Two seasons later I joined a different league. We practiced hitting and catching,...
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...When I was a little kid I hated going outside. The dirty, hot air, and almost everything else irritated me. I just wanted to stay in and watch TiVo. or play games. But my father pushed me to go outside and play baseball. I was beyond terrible, I couldn’t catch, run, or hit like most eight year olds. Then I joined little league even though I smiled I hated all the kids there. Then my dad went even further and started a baseball team. For the next three years I had to spend most of my time with these idiots… The people on the new team were all older or taller than me. And no one trusted or liked each other. We even went the first year with almost no wins. Then almost everyone on the team left. Then next year we started a new team with new people....
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...stared down at my damaged baseball. I never thought that something like this could ever happen to me. My best friend Cheala and I have been together since preschool. We weren’t ever really best friends, she was family, she was my sister. We rarely ever got into fights. We had agreed on mostly everything. But, baseball is where we were true competitors. I loved the Dodgers and she was a humongous Giants fan. The Giants and the Dodgers have been rivals since the Brooklyn Dodgers became the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Giants became the San Francisco Giants. I don’t even see the whole big deal with the stupid Giant. We have some of the best players ever...
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...My Baseball Hero's Journey: It all started with my first season of travel baseball and my entire team was playing up a year, none of us were competitive or give any effort but that's not what was wrong with it, we had lost every game yet we were still having fun playing the game we love, listing to country music, hitting and playing baseball with all of our friends. Then that's when I got my call to adventure, well I have to start with how travel baseball works, Saturday is seeding and Sunday is play till elimination, we had played this team the day before on Saturday and lost. The problem was they cheated their way there because they were supposed to be playing with 12U, not 10U but keep in mind we were nine at the time and they had also broken...
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...How many people do you know that would do ANYTHING to win? Luckily, I can say I know our Advance baseball team would do anything to get a win. They did not always succeed when it comes to winning, but they always give 100%. The baseball team main goal was to win every game they play. Although this discourse community did not receive much recognition from the school, they make the most of it. Observing this discourse community, I learned new things about the boys and their sport. If you have watched a baseball game, it was a slow sport. This sport is slow because of how long it takes one batter to bat. When I was watching the boys get ready to start practicing, I could see conservations happening within the baseball team. I could see the boys joking around and talking about their school day before practice. Then, I could see Coach Asmus walk up, and the boys get silent and immediately start stretching. This is a normal behavior of how players react to their coach. While the boys were stretching, the boys counted aloud and...
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...This I Believe in baseball. Baseball is full of life it brings people together, celebrates people's character, shows pride, leadership, and gives me an escape from anything that may worry me in life. Baseball allows me to play with all my friends and people that I don’t know. Baseball brings people together whether they are playing, spectating, or umping, these people including myself are there for one thing, to play baseball! Baseball brings people of all sizes, religions beliefs, ethnicities, and all ages together. Every Time baseball is played we celebrate what Jackie Robinson has done for equality of all humans. Most importantly in baseball it doesn’t matter who you are or what you have done you aren’t judged. Baseball teaches me...
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...Baseball is like an elevator, sometimes you’re going up and sometimes you’re going down and sometimes it’s going up. This is about the many experiences I have had playing baseball with all the ups and downs. It was in 9u we were playing in the league championship game against our arch rival the Bandits and it was tied in the bottom of the last inning and our pitcher could not throw a strike to save his life so he got pulled and coach brought me in with 2 outs and the bases loaded. I got to a full count and I threw a perfect pitch on the corner to strike him out and go to extras I was on top of the world. But we did not score in the top of the 7th and that feeling would soon leave as I gave up the walk off double to lose the game next inning. In the span of just a single game I went from being on the top floor to being at the bottom in the blink of an eye. Two years ago I got invited to Orlando, Florida and arriving there I was...
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...We’ve all failed before. Some more or worse than others. bUt through our failures we learn. We fix mistakes and learn from them also. Iv’e expiernced failure, whether its not getting that ideal grade in a class or even as simple as drawing a cartoon or a soccer ball. One failure in particular that i hold onto is not mkaing the baseball team my sophmore year. I learned alot from the failure. I was coming off of my first year of high school and high school baseball. I played summer baseball but I didn’t get much playing time. Around that time my confidence level regarding my skills and ability were pretty low. I wasnt always the first choice for any of the postitions. That gave me motivation to work harder. I would finish my school worl, stay on top of my studies so I could put most of my energy into baseball. Every practice I would do more, work harder, and just go that extra mile where most of my teamates didnt go. I worked hard everyday in preparation for the tryouts, that were coming up in the following spring. During the winter we would have winter workouts almost everyday. If you play baseball for North Medford you have to be committed...
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...tell you about my favorite sport, baseball. I love this sport because of all the memories I have had with it. I like it because it's so fun and it feels great to hit the ball and score for my team. Also when i'm on the field it is great because if the batter hits it to me it is exciting because I have a chance to get him out at first. I love baseball and one of the main reasons is that it is fun. Me and family have a favorite team and that is the cleveland indians. Me and family love to watch them play. It is also fun to play with your friends at a local field. I personally love doing that because it is a great time passer to. But also if you play for a recreational department or for a school team. I play for a team and the rec department and it is great to play for someone and to play competitive. And when you play for a school team then you will play to win. But you can still have fun while playing it....
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...It all started when I was four years old, my dad brought me to go buy my first baseball bat and then from there on it was hard work and dedication to the game that has changed my life called baseball. When I and my parents started seeing my potential in baseball we went to Pennsylvania to try out for Beaver Valley which was a travel baseball team. At the time I was eight years old and I loved the game. Me and my head coach’s son made the team of Beaver Valley and went on to have a losing season of 2-13. After that disappointing year our families went to a organization called the Glaciers located in Struthers, Ohio. At this moment we were nine years of age. We created a team of very good baseball players and we practiced from November to March to be the best we could be. That season we were state champions and went a record of 58-3. The next year we got a few more amazing baseball players but there parents always...
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...It was that time of year and I was so ready. It was baseball season, basketball season had just passed it was a good season for our Newbern panther boys and girls. This year we were looking for a win, we had never won a game in baseball, ever. So today was the first day of tryouts, and we had a new coach named coach king. He was kind of strict he told me he is the varsity coach for tight ends and full backs for Valdosta high school. Sometimes he would just be mean for no reason. Finally, it was our first week of practice and he was assigning position. It was my turn and coach king put me at a position I had never played out of my 2 other years playing at Newbern Middle School. He assigned me to shortstop I had never played that, ever I...
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