Baseball bat

across the baseball diamond. As dirty sweat drips off of my red face, I examine the field. The whole team knows that I have caught well the first three-fourths of the season. Now with two weeks to play, my coach is trying to adjust my catching style. All season he has ridden me harder than any other player on the team. I have done my absolute best for the previous three months, and I have been the voice of my team because everyone else refuses to speak during a game. I do not love…

if I said it, but I’m looking in the mirror smiling at myself right now”. This was the remark I received from the head coach of Miami baseball when I committed to play baseball at Miami University. It was not an easy road for me to get to become a Division 1 athlete here at Miami. I have always dreamed of playing college baseball and hopefully professional baseball, but my story to get me this far is one that is quite complicated. Sophomore year of high school is where I will start “my story”…

was relying on me. With baseball every moment feels that way. I have felt so many emotions while playing this game. The good and the bad. With my mind racing from one situation to the next, it takes a lot out of me but then I remind myself that the determination I have used, the intelligence I have gained,…

movie tends to portray imagery, the course of events in the book tend to contrast to those of the film. This became abundantly clear when I read the book and watched the movie, The Natural. In both the novel and the film, we learn about the life of a baseball player named Roy Hobbs, who was born with a talent and was given the ability to pursue his goal of life. Although his mindset was determined to break all the records in the game, many obstacles stood in his path ultimately skewing his…

This last school year I moved to Nebraska to live there for awhile. While I was there I went to school and played my favorite sport baseball. I was very excited for our first practice, and our first game. My excitement skyrocketed when coach told me at the end of practice that I would start at shortstop and close the game pitching. The entire day of the game, which was on a Thursday, I was in a marvelous mood because I couldn’t wait for the game that night. I was one of three kids in 7th grade…

could see Jeter wiping tears from his eyes as he was being celebrated throughout the big city of New York. Jim was in awe. He wanted to learn more and see more of baseball, but most importantly he wanted to play baseball. When he got pack to the orphanage he was determined and he would start to play the next day, if only he had a glove, bat and ball. Chris could see how much he wanted to play and lended his glove and a ball to Jim. At the recess yard Jim still had nobody to play with. He…

game baseball. It all started out when we moved from Texas about when I was starting preschool. The day I walked into the Kauffman stadium was a day I won 't forget. I looked up to the ceilings and said to myself that I am walking into a castle! I thought to myself; what an amazing day to be in Kansas City. Perfect weather outside…

For my microcycle project I was given the sport position of a baseball pitcher. Baseball pitching is an extremely explosive and sometimes an unnatural movement. The main parts of being a good pitcher is to have velocity, position, and movement. In order for there to be a successful pitch, Chris Blake of the New England Musculoskeletal Institute at the UConn Health Center says that there are 6 phases the body must go through. Phase 1 is the wind-up. This is where your knee comes up and stores…

I have always hated baseball, yet I used to play that sport all the time. I have always hated the excessive competition found in baseball, yet I used to whine when I did not win. I have always enjoyed the friendship found in baseball, yet I used to be blind from its existence. When I was 9, the neighborhood kids and I would gather whenever we could at the baseball diamond in Schmidt Park. There, we would assign teams and then play until we couldn’t. Most of us had nothing else better to do over…

in many activities, my favorite of which is basketball. I enjoy basketball because I always like to savor the soft swoosh of my basketball as it softly falls through the bottom of the net. Another activity that I greatly enjoy is baseball, where the loud crack of the bat is accompanied by the wafting smells of hotdogs and peanuts as the ball soars out of the stadium and to the other side of the world. Another thing that I love is my family. I have two sisters, both are older…