Baseball positions

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…

eventually pay off in the long run. Hard work is required to reach a goal but it isn’t easy. Baseball is seen as a fairly good, competitive sport at Northeast. There is some pressure when it comes to keeping the tradition going and being successful in baseball. In the past two seasons, Northeast has been only one win away from the school record for wins in a season. Beating this record was a goal for the 2016 baseball season. A couple of goals for me personally were to earn a spot on the varsity…

Precision of Pitching In the game of baseball, the pitcher is one of the most vital players on the team. He must follow a precise sequence of steps to throw the pitch the way he had intended to. The best way for a pitcher to throw hard and throw strikes is to choose the proper stance and pitch, execute the pitch, and follow through into an athletic fielding position. Before the pitcher steps on the mound, he must first decide what type of stance he needs to be in. If there is a runner on base…

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…

little brother to sign him up for baseball at the ball park. I turned to my dad and asked if I could endeavor softball. That next week, I took my first footstep onto the clay and in the beginning I was nervous to play. Then I started to enjoy it extremely, that I didn’t want to stop playing, staying late just to hit a few more softballs, or just fun around to catch them. Sports has always been part of my family's life. My stepmom grew up playing on the boy’s baseball team and my dad was a…

“Be remembered!” echoes through my mind every time I get up to bat. From Tee Ball to now, softball has made a huge impact on my life. Ever since I was 5 years old, I have been playing the game that I love the most. Imagine standing on a softball field expected to perform at the age of 5. Even though the butterflies in my stomach were fixing to start a war, nothing was going to stop me from stepping on that field to play my first tee ball game as a Little Tiger. Fans cheered, but what I…

I was walking up to the baseball diamond at Hyatt Elementary. I was eating a greasy piece of pizza. I saw the dark clouds in the sky, but I didn’t expect the rain to come, because it was hot and muggy. This is because it was June of 2017. When the game started we (my team and Fenton’s team) sang the “ Star Spangled Banner” on the 1st and 3rd base line. They were blaring it. We went on to the field and started to warm up. Soon as we started to warm up the umpires stopped the game for 30 minutes,…

Using tees is something I do everyday along with many others in this organization. It’s becomes an everyday thing. Tees are one of the best things you can do after a bad game of hitting or before a big game. Tees help with keeping all the fundamentals right. If i am in a big slump i spend close to an hour of straight tee. There is so many options when it comes to tee work you can work on hitting the ball inside or you can work on hitting the ball on the outside of the plate. There is really…

The British game of cricket and the American game of baseball both use the old game idea of a bat and ball. Robin Williams once said, “Cricket is basically baseball but played with valium.” The intertwined history of Cricket and Baseball, share the same basic principles of equipment, game play and the culture. The playing field in cricket is more oval like. The field is bigger than baseball, but with baseball the average outfielder has to cover more ground than the average cricket player (Quora)…

In my life, nothing has taught me more about life than the game of baseball. When you play a game that is about winning and losing since early childhood, you will be able to handle the winning and losing of life a lot easier. Losing always make players dream of what it would be like to win a championship and be the best at there game. I experienced the ups and down’s of this game all to well, and wouldn’t be that person I am today without it. In my first year of kindergarten, I played league…