Baseball terminology

In the Novel The Natural by Bernard Malamud, the main character of the story is a fifteen year old boy named Roy Hobbs, who is very talented in Baseball. He has an incredible pitching arm and a very powerful hit when it comes to batting. Roy believed that he was on the path to fulfilling his dream considering that he had a scout who got him a private tryout with the Chicago Cubs. Unfortunately, there were many obstacles that came across his way which prevented him from achieving his dream of…

On a breezy chicago early May Day in my junior year baseball season I was faced with a challenge that changed the whole way that I take on life. I was the starting shortstops for the varsity team at my high school team. I had this swagger about me that I was the starter and no one could take that from me. So I didn't put in any effort because I thought that I didn't need to. Well my life got flipped upside down on this breezy Chicago day. It starts that morning I arrive at school at 7:15 for…

As technology advances all around the world, baseball pitchers are exposed to new ways to throw the baseball at high velocities. This is causing baseball to become a lot more competitive. Players are often playing baseball year round instead of participating in other sports. This year round throwing and arm fatigue is putting more stress on pitchers’ elbows than ever before. This is part of the reason why the number of UCL Reconstructions, commonly know as Tommy John Surgery, is on the rise and…

young age, I was trained to play at the highest level and to be competitive in everything I engaged in. Although, when I was younger I participated in many sports, I had a strong passion for baseball. A passion for baseball that took me to the next level over and over again, until the next move was university baseball down south. The pressure to perform greatly increased as weekends usually spent with family in London, turned into weekends spent in some new city of the northern states. Life in…

There have been many volunteer organizations that I have had the privilege to be a part of, yet the dearest to my heart has been the Sheldon Little League. This is a baseball and softball organization which helps kids learn the fundamentals of baseball and softball through volunteer coaching. Sheldon Little League is a community wide affair that takes numerous of non-paid volunteers to run. This past year I was able to serve as the T-Ball player agent where I oversaw all activity in the 4-6 age…

My tradition is going paint balling every weekend with some exceptions.How it got started was Logan Allen invited me to his birthday about 2 years ago and it was at Pekin paintball park and we went paint balling, and I had a lot of fun so I did some research and found a closer place called Area 52 so I went there and tried it out there for my birthday and I liked it even more than Pekin and it was in Mackinaw and it was convenient since i go there almost every weekend to my grandmas and she…

From playing catch with me, teaching me how to ride a bike, so many boat rides with me telling him to go faster as grandma is telling him to slow down, but we don't listen as we ride that boat as fast as we can, laughing with big waves splashing us and laughing until our stomachs hurt and grandma is mad because we got her boat wet. From going really fast down the highway jamming out to music singing to ‘Word Up’ as loud as we can and countless shopping sprees and crazy moments with my Grandma.…

of tar wafted by my nose, Just as I was about to start the next lap, I see the orange cones right in front of me. I suddenly panic and just then I, well let me start from the beginning. It was a nice, hot, humid day in Myrtle Beach. The whole baseball team decided to change things up and do a big tournament and what better place to go then South Carolina. It was our day off and we decided to go down to the go-cart place around the street from the hotel. The tournament did give us free…

The track season was the hardest most adrenaline filled thing i’ve ever partook in. Everyday at practice we’d run probably two miles total, and that was just the sprinters. The long distance probably ran four or five. Track meets were always very intense, you could feel the electricity in the air. There was a dash of suspense also, it’s suspenseful because you can only do four events, and track meets were about six to seven hours long, and one sprint event only takes like literally a minute. You…

Coach Hunter is an important person to me, because he taught me how to play lacrosse, which I still play to this day. Coach Hunter was an average size man with a very short beard and always seemed to be wearing a beanie. I first met him at my first practice for the North Penn Dragons. When I was first introduced to him he told me he would be my coach and that he would teach me how to play. Most of my team were also new players, so we all had a lot of things to learn in the first weeks before our…