Baseball glove

Wilson leather glove. The tense grip of a rough skin, callus filled hand anxiously grabbed the ball and flung it towards home plate. The race was on. The ball traveled at a speed of almost eighty miles an hour but still, barely had a…

dad would probably be too tired to play catch after he gets home from work. Then, I thought it would be a good idea to see if Jules wanted to play catch with me. I then go upstairs to her room and I ask, “Hey Jules do you want to play catch with a baseball?” “Sure I will be right out,” she tells me. Afterward, I go outside and wait for Jules to come out. It ended up taking her fifteen minutes to get ready and…

covered throughout the semester. The primary team that was the subject of the movie was a self-assembled baseball team made up of school age boys with a common love of baseball. Early in the movie, one of the boys, affectionately referred to as “Smalls” joined the team which set forth an interesting team dynamic. Things escalate half way into the movie when one the boys run out of baseballs to play with. Smalls then runs home and, not realizing its value, grabs a signed Babe Ruth ball from his…

While watching a Harvard versus Yale football game in the Illinois Farragut Boat Club, a Yale fan playfully threw a boxing glove to a Harvard fan who hit it with a stick. While watching this happen, a news reporter, George Hancock declared “Play Ball!” (“History of Softball” Athletic). Even though softball was created as an indoor sport, after eight years it was moved outdoors…

Leaving the Park In the spring of my seventh grade year, I exercised my final season of eligibility of little league baseball. Just avoiding the cutoff date by a week, I would be one of the few thirteen year olds to take the field. It would also be my first year of making the all – star team, a goal I had since I had first entered the major league division of Shaker Valley Little League three years prior. As a starting pitcher, I was pretty confident that I would finally get the chance to show…

the championship game, THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME! Our coach was so irritated that we could practically see steam coming out of his ears. As the game started, I felt like l had butterflies in my stomach. My nerves seemed to calm as the baseball smacked against my leather glove, and hearing the roar of the crowd as I got the out. Both teams were giving it all they had to try and win the championship game, but you could tell that my team was definitely trying harder than the other team. No one had…

It all started when I was about 5 years old, I was a member of the boys and girls club of Decatur, IL. My mom signed me up to play baseball at the time I wasn’t really happy with her, I didn’t want to play a sport I didn’t know anything about. At the time I just wanted to play basketball and football two sports you could say I knew everything about. I studied the games I watched my favorite players play every day. I was like a sports reporter I knew everything there was to know about my favorite…

The Things They Carried If I were going to be found dead in war these are the things I would carry with me while in my service during the war. In the back of the picture sit my tennis raquet. I have always loved playing tennis evers since i started in sixth grade. I have never been good at sports in my life but tennis is the one sport that I am actually good at. It makes me complete and feel good about myself. Sports are tough on a high schooler but tennis puts me in my happy place where I can…

When I first began taking Comparative Philosophy, I did not have a clear idea of what made life worthwhile. I knew I enjoyed life, and I knew I wanted to continue to live my life, but I didn’t have a clue as to what made life meaningful. To me, the question, what makes life worth living, is perplexing and infinite. It provokes me to think, to regress, and to wonder. Coming into the term, I didn’t have a great answer to this question. However, after reading Zhuangzi, Camus, and Sartre, I have…

Is softball beneficial for your health? Some people may think softball doesn’t have any effects on the player’s health. For many years I have been playing softball; people always wonder why. People think it’s just about hitting a ball and running base to base, but for those that don’t know the sport may think its that simple. In this piece of writing it will discuss the positive effects softball has a player’s health. As well as it will go into detail about my personal experience playing…