Baseball positions

engrossed in a game of tug-a-war that no one noticed he was stealing bases and headed home. Eventually, each child heard their mom’s voices, yelling STOP, and quickly gave up. The majority of the rookies who were unsuccessful in retrieving the baseball began to cry. There was one particular 5-year old that appears to be the comforter. He gently put his arm around the mournful player(s) and walked them back to their…

nutrition and other things to keep their body in good shape. Gatorade has now widened to be the official sport drink of the National Basketball Association, Association of Volleyball Professionals, and Professional Golfers’ Association, Major League Baseball, Major League Soccer, and other numerous professional organizations and…

I slipped my feet into my dirt filled cleats and tied the old crusty laces. I heard the thud of a baseball hitting someone’s mitt as my teammates began to play catch and start our warm up routine. I could feel the crunching of dirt from my cleats as I trotted out to my usual position of second base. I fielded the ground balls thrown by our first basemen and heard the classic yelling of, “Coming down!” from our catcher as he threw the ball down to me covering second base. We threw the ball around…

me. I had just hit my 137 home run. I break color barriers that no one else has dared to, and I changed the game of baseball forever. Growing up my mother taught me to ignore racial slurs and negative comments. I took these lessons to the field I played incredibly, while facing even more challenge off the field. I am Jackie Robinson, the first man of color to play major league baseball Not everyone liked the idea that I was playing in the major league. The world champions, the St. Louis…

Imagine playing dodgeball in elementary school. The thrill of evading the rubber balls, with the cool air smacking against your face as you run. Imagine preparing to catch a ball, and receive the pride that accompanies getting the opposing team out. Imagine getting smacked in the jaw by someone's head, and then feeling an excruciating pain for the rest of your life. Lucy Grealy experienced such traumatic events and reflects on them in her memoir, Autobiography of a Face. Within the memoir, she…

hunt for witches and talked very digintley. I am very prideful, when I play baseball I always have the same walk up routine. I also fake bunt on the first pitch of my first at bat every game to get the infielders on their toes, sometime make them nervous.…

On the fourth weekend of October, the Emmaus Youth Association, (EYA), entered two U12 travel softball teams into the end of the year softball tournament at Northampton High School to see who would become the Lehigh Valley U12 Softball champion. The two teams were Emmaus Yellow coached by Bill Held, and Emmaus Green coached by Traci Krapf. In this double elimination tournament, a tournament that has a team lose two games instead of the traditional one, the Emmaus Green’s bats went silent as…

One Scrimmage “Allison, you’re on deck,” he says as he’s waving at me to get my helmet on. We were scrimmaging the older team that night as a warm up before we went to Bend that weekend. Putting my helmet on, all sweaty and nasty due to the conditioning we did in the practice beforehand. Sliding my slippery, sweaty hitting gloves on and running on deck. Ema was up, she swings. Strike three you’re out! “Go Allison, you’re up!” my coach says. I run to the plate, only anticipating the best…

Wiffleball Rubric Student Name: ______________________________________ Objective Cues Unsatisfactory Needs Improvement Satisfactory Commendable Excellent Earned Points Competency in hitting Square stance with knees bend and rear elbow down, watch the ball, stride when you hit, hold the bat correctly, follow through…

“That’s ball four,” the umpire called. I sighed, watching the runners advance to the next base on the field. I tossed the softball into my right hand, getting ready for my next pitch. I swung my right arm back, forward and around my head, finally releasing the ball with my fingertips as I had been taught. I watched as the ball spun in the air, travelling higher and higher, and then as it dropped behind the umpire. “Ball one,” the umpire exclaimed. Three pitches later, the batter walked to first…