A New Beginning Summer is finally here! I’m lurking through my garage looking for something to do. I found a bucket of all different kinds of balls. There was anything for footballs to bouncy balls. I took a bat and started to hit anything I picked up out of the bucket. I didn’t know that this would lead to a new life.
A year later when I was 4 I was allowed to play t-ball and soccer. I really found the love and passion for baseball at this young age. Instead of practicing many sports with my dad, now we mainly practiced baseball. We did many different drills. He would pitch me many different kinds of balls. Anything from bouncy balls to plastic footballs, and I would learn to hit anything.I always used a plastic yellow Little Tikes bat that …show more content…
In this drill my dad would stand about two feet away from me and would throw the ball to either one of my sides and i would have to quickly react to get it. I also would pitch to him a lot and I hoped to be a pitcher. My favorite game was called golden glove. My brother Mark and my sister Cecilia would play this game with me. My dad would hit us a ball and if you missed it or dropped it you would lose a life. You got three lives and whoever still had lives leftover when the others were out, they won. All of these drills really help me improve my talent.
It wasn’t until I was nine when kids started to pitch and you were allowed to go for more than a single. My nine year old team was the Pirates and I was number 11. My coach was my best friend's dad and I had a lot of others friends on the team. In our first game we were facing the Angles. I was the starting pitcher for our team and I was batting third. In the first half inning I pitched great with three strikeouts. In the second half of that inning I was up to bat. I used a grey and orange Easton Typhoon bat that was 29 inches and 18 ounces. I was really ready to bomb a home run. My first swing was a big miss. Then I realized I needed to keep my head down. When I hit the
A year later when I was 4 I was allowed to play t-ball and soccer. I really found the love and passion for baseball at this young age. Instead of practicing many sports with my dad, now we mainly practiced baseball. We did many different drills. He would pitch me many different kinds of balls. Anything from bouncy balls to plastic footballs, and I would learn to hit anything.I always used a plastic yellow Little Tikes bat that …show more content…
In this drill my dad would stand about two feet away from me and would throw the ball to either one of my sides and i would have to quickly react to get it. I also would pitch to him a lot and I hoped to be a pitcher. My favorite game was called golden glove. My brother Mark and my sister Cecilia would play this game with me. My dad would hit us a ball and if you missed it or dropped it you would lose a life. You got three lives and whoever still had lives leftover when the others were out, they won. All of these drills really help me improve my talent.
It wasn’t until I was nine when kids started to pitch and you were allowed to go for more than a single. My nine year old team was the Pirates and I was number 11. My coach was my best friend's dad and I had a lot of others friends on the team. In our first game we were facing the Angles. I was the starting pitcher for our team and I was batting third. In the first half inning I pitched great with three strikeouts. In the second half of that inning I was up to bat. I used a grey and orange Easton Typhoon bat that was 29 inches and 18 ounces. I was really ready to bomb a home run. My first swing was a big miss. Then I realized I needed to keep my head down. When I hit the