Dugout

Willa Cather moved to Nebraska in 1883, when she was only 9 years old. A year and a half later she moved to the small prairie city of Red Cloud. While there she had an attic room that she loved to read in. At sixteen she went to college. After attending the University of Nebraska she moved to Pittsburg. She became a big woman in American journalism, but quit when she started writing her American masterpieces. She wrote three masterpieces in five years, one being My Antonia. She was received the…

Baseball is in my blood. Like the light hair and eyes I inherited from my father, and the hot Italian temper I got from my mother, through my veins a love of baseball runs. Until recently, where my passion for the sport came from I was not sure. Sometime, I thought it began long ago, on summer trips to Fenway Park, when my family would drive in our oversized Chevy to Boston, park in a garage near Government Center, and take the T out to the ballpark. As I grew older and more accustomed to our…

Walk off. The most exciting play in baseball. The second the walk off ends, the game does subsequently, the only thing left to do is look back on how exciting the game was and of course, walk off the field... We’ve been taken out to the ballgame, we’ve eaten all the peanuts and crackerjack, we’ve root-root-rooted for the home team, and now the baseball season of 2012 was coming to an end. Lodi was coming to town. A team thinking back to the last time we played, they left the diamond on top 17-3…

and walked to the dugout. I looked around and saw the other team. They were looking like pros on the field. There throwing and catching was perfect. I stop watching and are couch came up to me and said, “devin theres no one better than you here. Now stop watching and get warmed…

Beaumont-Hamel was near fronts of the lines and saw terrifying battle, the Battle of the Somme which was the biggest nastiest Allied battle of the whole war. By 1918, the town was completely devastated. On this day(1 July - 18 November 1916), 20,000 soldiers died on the fields of Beaumont Hamel.this battle was known as the battle of Somme the most unsuccessful and tragic battle in the history of the Newfoundland regiment. On July 1st, the plan was to constantly fire artillery at german…

things in common and many differences. Some differences were, the places it took place in. Ike was driving up to Baca County, Colorado and Catherine was in Kansas at her grandma’s house. What was also different was their childhood. “His house was a dugout: a one room home built into a hill, with walls made of sod, or soil. He shared this room with his parents and eight siblings.” this was stated on page 7. They also had black rollers where they lived that could funnel as high as 10,000 feet.…

“Strike Three!” I was playing a baseball game in Hudsonville Michigan. It was fall. The time when you can see red, yellow, orange, brown, and pink leaves twirl as they fall gracefully to the ground. Bright beams of of sunlight shine on the damp grass. The air was fresh but chilly. fans came from near and far to watch us play. My team was doing very well and part of the reason why was because I was pitching. I did not Know it yet, but I would Throw a no hitter. I could remember when…

that Callie killed Katherine. But is that really true? At the beginning of the story, Callie was looking for Katherine when she found her murdered behind a baseball dugout. Callie tried to pull the knife out of Katherine to she if she was still alive, but no sign of life occurred. As she did this, a group of people came out to the dugout and took photos of Callie when she had Katherine's blood on her hands. Consequently, Callie had all of the evidence piled against her. Therefore, everyone even…

“Nice swing,” hollers Jeremy, my softball coach, as he places another ball into the pitching machine (6). One after another, I can hear the nice sound of the crack of my bat as I drill line drives up the middle. “Let’s end on a good hit,” Coach calls out. He puts the ball in the machine and I take a vigorous swing. The ball flies with power straight over my coaches head. “Okay, I’m good with that one!” I say proudly acknowledging my hit. Then my coach turns off the machine and brings…

Breaking my nose playing baseball is my worst memory of ever playing the sport. It hurt like nothing I’ve ever felt before, and I didn’t even know what happened. At first, I had no clue what had happened. When I was ten, I signed up to play for my first select baseball team. They were from Waterloo and called the Blue Diamonds. I was only okay with playing for them because my friend Sam played with me. They had the tryouts in August, and we both made the team. We were a pretty good team and we…