Even since I was little, baseball has and will always be my passion. I have played baseball every summer, but if I had to choose a favorite it would of been the summer of 2010, when I was twelve. The reason why it's my favorite is because I got to experience an event of a lifetime, playing baseball in Cooperstown, New York. There is a tournament there every summer that consists of more than one-hundred teams and the only way to describe it is amazing. In order to play in this tournament, we had to fundraise enough money to be able to compete, and honestly the fundraisers we had held were so much fun. Washing a car doesn't seem to fun, but when you do it with friends and family it's a memory you won't forget. One of the neat aspects on the
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A smile immediately came on my face and in that at-bat I hit a homerun making that moment even better. After the game, we went out to lunch as a family and it was great. As the week went on, it kept getting better. One of the best things we did was visit the National Baseball Hall of Fame. It was a baseball lover's paradise. Everything in history was in this museum, like Roy Halladay's perfect game ball and even Hank Aaron's locker that he used when he played. And after our tour was done, I got Mike Trout's and Bryce Harper's rookie cards who are two of my favorite players. The other cool activity we did as a team was that we went paint balling as a team. Even our coaches played with us and watching them put all the gear on while getting hit by little paintballs was very funny. By the end of the week, our team had gone 1-7, but personally I had a batting average of.500 while hitting five homeruns, which was the second most by any player there. When it was time to go home, I started crying and I don't think I stopped until an hour later, but it will always be on of the greatest weeks of my
A smile immediately came on my face and in that at-bat I hit a homerun making that moment even better. After the game, we went out to lunch as a family and it was great. As the week went on, it kept getting better. One of the best things we did was visit the National Baseball Hall of Fame. It was a baseball lover's paradise. Everything in history was in this museum, like Roy Halladay's perfect game ball and even Hank Aaron's locker that he used when he played. And after our tour was done, I got Mike Trout's and Bryce Harper's rookie cards who are two of my favorite players. The other cool activity we did as a team was that we went paint balling as a team. Even our coaches played with us and watching them put all the gear on while getting hit by little paintballs was very funny. By the end of the week, our team had gone 1-7, but personally I had a batting average of.500 while hitting five homeruns, which was the second most by any player there. When it was time to go home, I started crying and I don't think I stopped until an hour later, but it will always be on of the greatest weeks of my