Baseball Mistakes

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Some of my successes in life include winning baseball tournaments, getting voted into the allstars in my baseball league, being the youngest kid in colorado to get his license to hunt, and firing a 306 when i was 6 without my arm falling off.

My 1st success in baseball was when i was 7 years old and my team was losing the championship game by 2 points, so when i got up to bat there was a guy on 3d base and on 2nd, we already had 2 outs so if i got out we lost the game here. So when i got up to bat i got 2 strikes and the next pitch i hit allowing me to get to 2nd base and my teammates on bases 2 and 3 to get home and score the 2 points we needed to tie the game and go into overtime. I ended up running home on the next bat and after we scored
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I was apart of a different baseball league. I went to the tryouts and didn't do very good but still made a team called the cubs. I went to the practices and still didnt do to good there. But when our 1st game came, i owned them. I was the 3d baseman and our main pitchers arm was getting tired so he couldn't throw strikes and kept throwing “balls”. So the coach knowing i have pitched before had him switch out with me. It was my turn to pitch, and i did good. The rest of the game only hit was made wial i was pitching and i struck everyone out. I then was our best picher. The next 10-12 games i continued to strike everyone out. We had only lost 2 games that season and were the best team in the league. One game before the championship game i was voted to be on the all star team. Sadly tho the next day which was the day of the championship game my mom took me and my sister and brought us up to fort collins and wouldn't bring us home. So i then became the giver of 0 F**Ks and stopped caring about anything, i found out a week later from an email from the coach that they had lost the game because our backup picher had a broken arm so i was our only picher besides …show more content…
I was 8 years old and my dad went to take a weekend class to get his hunter's license. I wanted to go with him and get it to, But he thought i was to young and couldn't make it. So after trying to convince him to let me go he said yes and i gotta go take the class and try to get my license. We went to the class that sunday morning at a cabelas and we began the 1st day of the 8 hour long class. They had us learning all the rules and regulations, what animals are legal and illegal to hunt, what weapons and calibers were legal to use will hunting. The 1st day was so boring and i fell asleep during some of it. The next day they brought the entire class to a shooting range were we learned weapons safety and how to handle weapons. We got to fire some rifles ( tho it wasn't my 1st time firing a gun i was nervous) and we had to have a 5 inch grouping of 10 shots on the target to pass. I got a 3 inch grouping on the targeted and ripped it up. We then went back to the classroom and took the final test. It was a 16 page test and we had 5 hours to finish it. I don't remember a lot of the stuff on it and had to guess with most of the questions. So at the end of it when i finished i turned it into the instructor. He graded it and i got a 67%, so he gave me a 2nd chance to go thru it and try to correct the answers. The 2nd time i send thru it and corrected all my mistakes. I then brought it back up to the instructor but

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