Baseball rules

As my spiked cleat slides across the torn and tattered mound, familiar vibrations run up my leg. My foot finds its place, and once again I explode off the mound, whipping my arm around my body as fast as possible. The ball flies out of my palm and toward the catcher, a sharp popping sound ringing through the air as the ball finds its way into her glove. The ball is quickly thrown back to me as the first strike is called and I pace around the white lines of the pitching circle, my cleats…

The Throwing Skills to Pay the Bills Of the key elements of a well-rounded softball player, a good throwing arm is definitely near the top of the list. While some are lucky enough to be born with throwing skills, even they won't be hurt by softball throwing drills which aim to improve distance and accuracy. When demonstrating these softball throwing drills, make sure to run through each drill at half speed first before increasing the pace. Also give every player who desires a chance to practice…

During the spring of 2008, I was playing baseball in a 10 and under league. I had been playing on the same team for two years with some friends from school. The team’s name was the Lake Shore Bluesox. Our team was in a travel league where we would play teams across the state of Maryland from different counties. We practiced three nights a week with a game on Friday, along with three games over the weekend. It was a lot of hard work, but we won almost all of our games. Our coach told us that if…

camaraderie with peers. I would go on to play these sports throughout middle school, with tee-ball turning into baseball. These three sports are some of the main options for children in America, and are certainly among the most popular options. In middle school, the two main sports I played and enjoyed were basketball and soccer. As the years went by, I began to not like baseball as much and took a few years off, focusing on basketball and soccer. The reason…

Softball What started out as a men’s football game in Chicago, Thanksgiving day of 1887, lead to the greatest women’s sport, softball. At the end of the Yale football game, brooms were being used as “bats” to hit boxing gloves that were being thrown. There may be a lot of women’s sports, but what makes softball the best of them all? Is it because it was a sport that generated from one of the manliest sports? Or was it because of how it has changed tremendously throughout the years? Years ago…

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…

122). The prevalent activity of that era was baseball. Baseball required for a glove, tennis shoes, jeans, and an important baseball. Unfortunately, the financial issues kept Smalls…

Imagine yourself being a kid again and running around the backyard, playing catch. The effortless movements and abundance of energy flashes through your mind as you think of this. Look ten years down the road into the future and see that it is your senior year. The countless hours of workouts, practices, and games you have participated are coming to a bittersweet end. Sports have always had a special place in my heart as it has been a getaway from the stress of academics. An advocate for people…

realize now that it is not so black and white, and it frankly need not matter whether or not anyone else or their grandma finds me pretty. My fashion sense these days is more feminine, but I am still the same girl who tucked her ponytail up into her baseball cap so no one would notice a girl on the field. I’m still the girl who is mystified by makeup tutorials and has no idea what “setting powder” is. I’m still the girl who classmates taunted for wearing baggy clothes, until they needed help…

The place I wake up early for on the weekends. The place I practice three times a week. The softball field is my happy place. The dirt on the field is the only beach I want to go to. The chalk on the field is the only chalk I write with. The early mornings, the late nights all for something I love. The smell of the fresh cut grass, so fresh just before a game. The look of the just raked infield, so fluffy and smooth.The look of the freshly painted and chalked lines, so crisp like perfection. The…