Personal Narrative: How Baseball Has Changed My Life

All throughout one’s life, you must encounter obstacles, face adversity head on, and keep your head high all the while. Thankfully, as a child, I wasn’t always alone in completing tasks or accomplishing things. My friends, family, and people around me in life were quite often to help me, but there were times that I had to accomplish things on my own. As I grew up, I began to hate asking people for help, and I wanted to try things for myself. I felt like it was cheating to ask for help, because in life after high school, aren’t you usually having to do things by yourself? So, I figured, when the tasks that I was given were easy, I may as well practice doing them by myself. One example of this was when I was tasked with learning to umpire. I had played baseball since before T-Ball, and I had always enjoyed watching baseball with my family whenever it was on. …show more content…
Watching the umpires was something that seemed more interesting at times because they were the ones who really decided how a game went. A close play at home could be life or death for a team, and all that weight rested on the shoulders of the umpire, who after less than 2 seconds has to make a decision with millions of dollars on the line at times with millions watching and waiting for their call. I found the local umpiring league in my area, and I signed up. The classes met just 3 times before we had to take our test, and since I really wanted to become an umpire, I studied hard. Thankfully, it was merely 9-10 baseball, so it wasn’t anything too fast paced for my 15 year old brain to handle. When I wasn’t doing homework, I was studying the rulebook for my local league because many of their rules were much different than that of other leagues. They were designed to help aid the pitchers in that league that were known to struggle with hitting the strike zone. It also helped to prevent kids from stealing on every pitch that was also due to how terrible the pitching