Softball. According to the dictionary, softball is a modified form of baseball played on a smaller field with a larger ball, seven rather than nine innings, and underarm pitching. But to me it is more than just a modified version of baseball, to me it is more than just a game. It's not about the pitching style or the smaller field or the number of innings. I have grown up playing the game and it has made me tougher. It has shown me how to love sports and be a competitive athlete. “Come in…
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…
the entire story. Roy has a dream, though he may be older he feels now it is his time to become the greatest baseball player to have ever existed. Roy has had earlier setbacks and therefore is not allowing anything in his way this time around. He has an attitude in which he not only thinks he is the best, but knows he is the best. Roy Hobbs is a prime example in not only terms of baseball, but with life in general of how pride and a tendency to be overconfident can hinder or even destroy the…
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”…
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…
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,…
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…
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…