Baseball Experience Essay

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On Sunday I went to baseball practice at 2 o'clock at the middle school. Not everyone was there and there were some new kids that were not there last year. For the first half-hour all we did was throw to each other and stretch. My partner was Theodore. Coach said if we miss it was five pushup. Next I started out playing first base, we started out a little rusty but then we were all doing good. One drill was we had to take a ground ball and then run and get another ball and throw it to first base and then we did double plays. After infield I pitched 25 pretty good pitches to Kaden. After that my half of the team went to go bat. There were four Batting stations including the batting cage. My partner was Joe. One of the stations we

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