Baseball

As I grew up, I did what was considered normal for a young boy: I played baseball, soccer, basketball and hockey in leagues. The Basketball slipped away because I was bad at it and didn’t care to try to get better, I was okay at hockey (mostly rollerblade hockey), but excelled at soccer and baseball. I loved playing them, but I never wanted to do it professionally. It was more of a leisure activity on weekends. With baseball/softball, it’s even more leisure with guys my age because there are…

Softball. According to the dictionary, softball is a modified form of baseball played on a smaller field with a larger ball, seven rather than nine innings, and underarm pitching. But to me it is more than just a modified version of baseball, to me it is more than just a game. It's not about the pitching style or the smaller field or the number of innings. I have grown up playing the game and it has made me tougher. It has shown me how to love sports and be a competitive athlete. “Come in…

my dad drilling instructions into my head. It was my first Little League baseball game ever, and my dad wanted to make sure it wasn’t my last. Being seven years old and never touching a baseball was something that had scared me; a lot. I had no idea what to think about this foreign, petrifying, game could possibly be about. The car ride from my house was only a few minutes away from the fields where I would begin my baseball career. “The key to hitting the ball, is to always keep your eye on…

American’s to become the next biggest/greatest athlete of all time. My dear friend, Travis Brannon, was one of these kids that grew up desiring to be a great athlete. Travis grew up playing all different kinds of sports such as soccer, track, wrestling, baseball, basketball, swimming, and lastly thanks to growing up in Texas…Football. Through Travis’ experiences in sports I have learned that sport is largely started for social reasons rather competitive, as well as the negative aspects such…

times of success, yet inevitable times of tragedy as well. Roy struggled through his early life and childhood. He grew up playing baseball with his father and had an interesting life in his youth. One day, a lightning bolt struck a tree nearby Roy. With the remaining wood of the tree, Roy fashioned a baseball bat in which he named Wonderboy. For the rest of his baseball career and professional years, Roy had extreme skill when he played with Wonderboy until it broke in his season with the…

have seen me as a baseball player as opposed to a follow-up to his first born, a son he could cheer for. Had he shown up to the game, I know he would have been happy. Sports still reign in my head. I don 't play them anymore, and I have to be okay with that. Austin always loved the game more than me. Dad always loved Austin 's game more than mine. We still sit around and talk about when Austin played for the Trailblazers or the Bulldogs, or that time when Austin got the baseball stuck inside…

gloves apart from the others. Is There Really a Difference? When you compare baseball gloves to softball gloves there is a huge difference. It all centers on the size and depth of the pocket and the size of the player’s hand using them. The physics behind these differences is easy to apply. There are two main reasons that a fastpitch softball glove is what you need to make that great catch. Size Matters A baseball has a 9-inch circumference and a fastpitch softball is 12-inches. You need a…

In particular a pitcher. This is because out of all the positions on a baseball team they generate the most speed and power from their throws. I also chose baseball pitchers as my ideal athlete because the mechanics of pitching a baseball is one of the most researched and documented motor skills in sports. Slide Five The ideal technique. As you can see from the picture the ideal technique that I found is…

an even greater man than he was before. Before my dad coached my brother, he coached younger athletes in baseball or football and he even coached a hearing impaired disabled school baseball team. My brother picked up every sport when he was younger. When he played soccer, my dad wasn’t the coach. His first year of football, my dad wasn’t the coach, but when he quit football to play baseball that first year, my dad wanted him to succeed on his own. However, my dad was always there in the…

In the game of baseball, catching a ball is an everyday thing and is no big deal to most players, but for others, it creates themselves a legacy. The Right Fielder’s love for the game of baseball is expressed by how he always wanted to play and did not care as much about the position he was playing. Though he wanted to play the game and leave his legacy by doing so, his team never believed in his game. In the story Death of the Right Fielder, by Stuart Dybek, the symbol of the ball found in the…