Baseball bat

It’s late summer, 2015. We had been practicing for months and finally we were playing games. It was supposed to be an easy game. We always win by six or seven points, but this time it was different. I’m Matthew Billing, and this is the story of the time I broke my elbow playing soccer. We start the game right on time six o’clock. We have been playing for probably fifteen to twenty minutes when it happens. I intercept a pass and start to make a run downfield. As I’m getting past midfield a…

After denying for so many years that he wasn’t using drugs for many of years, out of no where he admitted to using the drugs while competing in the tour de france. Alex Emmanuel Rodriguez played baseball for the New York, he was also awarded the honour of being announced into the Major League Baseball (MLB) hall of fame. He was looked up to from people all over the world until he hit headline news for the wrong reasons. For a long period of time Alex insisted he was clean and drug free.…

Middle school is the place where you have either the best or even the worst memories. Some could consist of you getting injured in kickball, you kicking the game-winning home run. I in fact have a lot of memories, one in which that I almost spilled Gatorade all my teacher. Some aren't as interesting, but they're still very funny. People look back at memories and laugh, but I laugh as it happens. My memories are almost spilling Gatorade on my teacher, playing kickball, and field day. First I…

It was July 2nd, 2010 and we were at my brother’s last freshman baseball game of the year. After that we got home and got our bags made sure we had everything and then we hit the road it was about 4:30 p.m. when we started to head to Chicago. I was excited because it was my first time being out of the state of Iowa. On the way down to Chicago we were listening to the Cubs game and they won that game and the next day was the game we were going to. We were sitting down the Left Field line in…

Second quarter of the game Josh passes the ball to Cam with few seconds left till halftime, but Cam is afraid that he won't make the three point shot. So he glances to his coach, the coach gives him the look that he can do it, and Cam acknowledges that he should shoot the ball and do it for the team. Cam thought that if he misses he would infuriate the team. When he shot the ball everyone looks at the ball bouncing on the rim slowly going in the hoop. Shortly his team went of bursting with…

Have you every wanted to make a team, but don't catch that one ball or take a bad shot? Well if you have I would call that tough luck, and that's what I am going to tell you about. About a boy named Dutch Nordby who missed one shot to go to state. Well he still went to state just not going in as 1st. In these paragraphs I am going to tell you about one boys wrestling year. About his practices torments and state. First, The year began going to practice every week on Tuesday and Thursday…

There are lots of very influential people in this bracket. However, our most influential Americans are Jackie Robinson, George C. Marshall, Martin Luther King Jr., and Henry Ford. The most influencial American needs to be somebody that not only affected his time period, but also affects ours. For that reason, I choose Henry Ford. Jackie Robinson was the first African American to play a professional sport, which opened the door for others to play at the proffesional level. But he didn’t merely…

Bob Kalp contains all of the qualities of a man influential in my life. Bob Kalp participated in almost everything possible. He instructed beginning drivers, taught chemistry, coached basketball, and currently coaches softball. At 72 years old, he still resembles a young man. His white hair and skinny body do not fit the image of a softball coach. However, he coaches one of the most successful softball teams in the country. Kalp just finished coaching his 21st softball season. His third…

1. You need good form to shoot. Your form is the base of being a good shooter. If you have bad form your shot can go to the left or right and you won't be able to fix it. To have good form you need to make sure you make an L with your arm, with the ball on your fingertips, with a small window in between the ball and your hand. You need to keep your elbow close to your body not sticking out or the ball will go all wonky. Make sure your feet are facing where the ball needs to go…

“The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket,” as stated by Will Rogers. After taking this personal finance class I have learned that the quickest way to double my money isn’t to fold it over and put it back in my pocket. The quickest way to double my money is to be smart with it and know where it’s going and what the time value of it is. I took this business class as a pre-requisite for my bachelors of science and nursing. It wasn’t something I…