Baseball glove

A person that has helped me grow into the man I am today is my high school baseball coach Steve Leake. From the first day I stepped on the diamond he saw something in me that nobody except my grandfather had told seen. The four years that Coach Leake and I spent together trying to capture the schools first state championship ring were some of the greatest seasons I ever played. As a new school year began I made the decision to go to a different school for high school.I began lost on that…

Imagine a baseball tee falling on your head. Can you picture it? Well, that happened to me. When that baseball tee fell on my head, it hurt, and it wasn't easy to deal with, but I persevered and got through it. So how it happened was, I was 5 or 6 years old, my whole family was outside, and I went into the shed. Our shed has a lot of stuff in it, and the baseball tee was on a shelf in the shed. Well I'm 5 years old so I can't reach up there, so I stand on the edge of a bin underneath 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”…

It became a sport when some alumni were sitting in the Chicago, Illinois Farragut Boat Club. While they were waiting for the football game to get over when one of them threw a glove over to the other one. He picked up a stick and hit the glove as it was coming towards him. Now that we know a little history behind the sport, we can start talk about how to it the ball. It can look simple when the pros do it, but its not as easy as it looks. There are different…

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…

"You're not going to be passive and just let a ball drop right in front of you. You're not going to get thrown out by half a step. You're going to give 110 percent 100 percent of the time. Fail aggressively if you're going to fail." - Haylie McCleney. Softball teaches countless valuable lessons that you can take away and apply to your life outside of the sport. However, these lessons will only stick with someone if they are taught by someone who knows how to connect with other people.…

favorite pizza. For me it was bringing home that state championship trophy. My little league all-star teamed was feared all through Davenport. Everyone knew that Northwest Little League was the most star-studded team in the Quad City area. Winning baseball games had became a tradition for my team. We were like the New York Yankees of Davenport Little Leagues. Everyone hated us, wanted to be us, but no one could ever beat us. So it was no…

Shoeless Joe Jackson has the third best batting average of all time. “ Shoeless Joe Jackson was a superb hitter whose career average of .356 is the third highest attainted in the history of baseball’’ (“Shoeless Joe Jackson”). “ Joseph Jefferson Jackson was born in poverty on July 16, 1887, in the small South Carolina town of Brandon Mills. His father was a mill worker and never received a decent salary. Joe Jackson's education ended before his twelfth birthday, and he was illiterate when he…

From dodgeball to airball? Many adults when asked think the newer generations are softer, weaker, and less capable. “By age 13 70% of kids have dropped out of organized sports, and often out of physical activity altogether”says Mary Hasson . A key example of a weaker generation is dodgeball, the game has slowly lost it’s thrill over the years. In the old days they played with hardcore rubber balls, now it’s like throwing cotton balls. The Sherwood Middle School News Team watched an athletic…

"I'm talking about if you could play ball then they ought to have let you play. Don't care what color you were." Troy talks about his dissatisfaction from playing baseball and how you were treated bad if you weren’t white. He doesn’t even want his own son to have the opportunity to play sports. A college recruiter was going to come by cory’s house to possibly give him the opportunity to go to college and play football, but troy told the recruiter that cory won’t be playing football anymore. He…