Baseball

Confidence in a Game of Failure Baseball is just like life in so many ways, the certain failure that must be faced with composure and grace in order to be successful in the future; the lessons learned throughout years of commitment and hard work. Baseball is more lifelike than any other sport because of these things, but also because of repetition. Day after day, night after night, slaving after your craft to be deemed great, and only succeed three out of ten times. This is why people are so…

High School Baseball and Major League Baseball I love baseball, my experience with baseball has been around all of my life. I have grown up understanding the basic fundamentals and rules. I am going to inform you on how High School Baseball, and Major League Baseball are different. There are an extended amount of differences in Major League Baseball to High School Baseball. More people understand Major League Baseball more than High School Baseball. In Major League Baseball each game last…

The Autobiography of a Wooden Baseball Bat I remember back when I used to be a big, healthy ash tree in central North America. I had all my friends living next to me. Oak, Maple, Pine, they were all where there with me. Then one day it all turned around. I was sitting there, my leaves blowing in the wind, when a creature with a spinning machine starts cutting away at my feet. I thought my life was ending, but when I fell, I was still alive. I was laying there on the ground thinking all was…

the bottom of the final inning as the Aquinas Blugolds are ahead of Lake Country Lutheran 4-2. As a young child around the age of 5, I started playing baseball, and just like almost every little boy or girl, I always had that dream about making the game-winning shot in basketball or making that diving catch to win the state championship in baseball. My dream was almost fulfilled on June 18th, 2015. The season started in March and went all the way until June. At the beginning of the season,…

Freedom In Baseball This country was founded on the sport of baseball. Baseball has been around forever and has been America’s number one pastime for centuries. It was a warm sunny morning in Oakland, California and I was riding my bike home from the coffee shop on 5th street. It was the summer of my junior year and I had decided I wanted to live with my aunt for the summer. There were all kinds of things to do in the city and I had to choose something to do on the day my aunt was off work. I…

softball and baseball, they sound alike, they look alike, and they have a lot of similarities. However, they are a lot more different than they appear. I have been playing fast- pitch softball for twelve years so I am fairly knowledgeable on rules and regulations. I do not all the rules for baseball, but after research I found out the differences between the two sports. I plan to tell of the similarities and variances of softball and baseball. Fast pitch softball has many differences from…

The game of baseball has a long and questionable history. Where did the game of baseball develop from, some argue the game developed from the English game cricket while others will argue that the game developed from an old game called rounders. Rounders is believed to have been played during the Tudor period of English history. Both games were played for many years. The game of baseball is played today in the United States and the earliest history of baseball in America is in the late 1700’s…

softball and baseball are basically the same sport, there are some pretty important differences. After Yale’s victory against Harvard’s football team on Thanksgiving Day, 1887, a Yale alumni, in Chicago, jokingly threw a boxing glove at one of his Harvard buddies, who then swung at the glove with a broomstick. George Handcock playfully yelled “Play ball!” and unknowingly…

Has the difference between softball and baseball ever been contemplated? Softball is widely known as a version of baseball girls play in high school and college, Despite this, softball is more different than what gender plays the game. While it is obvious that baseball and softball are two different sports, what makes them different? Baseball and softball have many similar qualities, however they both have significant differences including rules, elements, and style that make them two different…

high school was the baseball team. In previous years we have not made the playoffs or even come close to that goal, but my junior year was different. In the beginning of the season we came up with the common goal as a team to make it to the playoffs. This year it had felt different for me we felt like a totally different team and we actually wanted to win some games. The baseball run started in January at our head coach’s winter baseball camps which is also where the whole baseball team helps…