For as long as I can remember, I have always played as the left fielder in baseball. Playing this position was always easy for me. When I estimated the trajectory of a ball speeding through the air, I could always run to where I thought it would be and catch it. It was as if the outfield became my home, I was comfortable there. One day during practice, my coach told me to try and play as the first baseman. This position was so much more difficult than playing in the outfield. Switching to this position is one of the hardest things I have ever done. When I played as a first baseman for the first time, I was terrible. I didn’t know the specific terms used in the infield to determine where to stand. If someone threw the ball at me, I could not
