Fastball

Attack When a mindset brings forth both failure and success, it is difficult to understand its effectiveness. In my athletic career, I experience both victory and defeat as a direct result of aggressiveness. I would rather reflect upon my athletic careers and think “I cannot believe I did that,” rather than think “I wish I did that”. Whether it be stealing home late in a baseball game with my team down by two or trying to granby-roll my opponent while I am up by ten, I refuse to be…

up and steps in to the box, right after you take three deep breaths you step on the rubber and zone in, beginning to go through your delivery, left foot goes back, then your left leg lifts up in sync with your arm and you deliver the first pitch, fastball on the outside corner, just what the catcher called, the umpire gives the first call of the game “strike 1” and fans begin to clap. You get the ball back and get back on the mound, your…

Colin Kaepernick On November 3rd, 1987, a superstar was born. He would go on to dazzle on a national spotlight in front of millions. Breaking NFL records, and bringing his team within 7 yards of football immortality. Colin Kaepernick was born to Heidi Russo in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Only 19 at the time, with no father in the picture, she gave her newborn away at 5 weeks to the Kaepernicks. She was introduced to the Kaepernicks by a mutual friend. Colin was drawn to sports at a young age. The…

Khalid Hussein Mr. Courtney College Prep Communications 16 May 2016 Fences A Fence is defined as a barrier enclosing or bordering a field, yard, etc., usually made of posts and wire or wood, used to prevent entrance, to confine, or to mark a boundary (Dictionary). Fences seems like a simple title but by the end of the novel you can see what extensive meaning it has. In the play "Fences" August Wilson shows how a simple object can have powerful meanings. One way the fence has a powerful…

In the play Fences, August Wilson divides this play into two acts, One and Two, with four and five scenes respectively. It raises issues that the African-Americans faced mostly on racism. The main character is a man named Troy who has a rough time providing for his family. When he was younger, he was arrested for accidentally killing someone else during a robbery gone wrong. In his time in prison, he practiced baseball and became very good at it. He then plays baseball with the hope of earning…

Baseball Baseball has always been one of my favorite sports, and it will always be the longest sport I’ve played. A total of 9 years in Khoury league and 2 years in high school, so all in all I have been playing this sport almost all my life. I started baseball with the Red Bud T-ball team, the team had a count of 15 people including me and excluding the coaches. Those 15 kids playing on that team became some of my bestest friends and greatest teammates to have. Most of them ended up being…

Baseball, our national pastime, is one of the most popular sports in the United States and around the world. Because of its popularity, many children and adults participate through organized games and even in common, backyard games as a family activity. Every year, according to The American Academy of Pediatrics,” An estimated 8.6 million children ages 6 to 17 participate annually in an organized and recreational baseball” (“Baseball and Softball”). With the astonishing amount of people that…

Moneyball The 2011 motion picture Moneyball is based upon the Oakland Athletics 2002 baseball season. The movie opens with a quote by Mickey Mantle, “It’s unbelievable how much you don’t know about the game you’ve been playing all your life” (as cited in De Luca, Horovitz, Pitt, & Miller, 2011). His words set the tone for movie as it focuses on the management side of baseball and the relationships of those involved with building a team. Faced with the lowest budget in the industry, Billy…

How does one come to understand a history that has shaped us, but have not experienced it themselves? Us as people fathom a world that we come from. We do this by using something called imaginative archaeology. It is a way of thinking about what is left of the past, about the temporality of what remains about the facts, and processes of what was. Fiction itself is a form of prose, that describes imaginary events and people. Especially in short stories or in novels. Factual evidence of history…

five runs in the first inning. My heart sank after that and most of the team had lost hope. Our coach asked if after all we have done were we going to give up just like that. I remember us fighting back into the game. My first at bat, I got a high fastball and hit it back up the middle. It felt like hitting a pillow, I didn’t feel it on my bat. Then all started playing like we could win this game. In the fourth inning we took the lead 7-5. In the sixth, they were up to hit and we need to stop…