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Before I became the good baseball player I am today there were some struggles I had to go through. Back when I was about 10 years old I was an ok player because I sucked I thought I would never be good enough to impress my dad and showed him I didn’t suck. That didn’t matter how good I did if I messed up one little thing he will just tell me I suck and it wouldn’t matter if it was big or small the mistake was he would tell me I suck and not congratulate me on the things I did right. During when all of this was happening I was thinking im my head how I can improve to not make my dad mad. So when I would play I would play scared and with me playing scared that caused me to make mistakes but I started to learn not to play scared because everyone

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