Nippon Professional Baseball

Before I was even born it seemed it was in my destiny to be a basketball player. My mom won a high school state championship and was some kind of legend in town. When she first signed me up to play in our town rec league, all of the men who ran the league couldn’t believe she didn’t sign up to coach. One of the guys at the table then turned to me and told me he was there when my mom scored the winning basket at the Boston Garden to take the team to the state championship game. When we got…

Throughout History, some of the greatest stories and tales have an underlying theme of friendship. Chaim Potok’s book, The Chosen, is one of these books. During this time period, two groups known as the Orthodox Jews and the Hasidic Jews disagree with each other on most things. However, this fact does not prevent the two main characters Reuven Malter, an Orthodox Jew, and Danny Saunders, a Hasidic Jew, from becoming friends. In Danny Saunders’ case, his father, Reb Saunders is the leader of the…

was an architectural wonder but because it brought back to mind that very first lesson when Professor Van Huevelen sparked my curiosity when he said we find that there are some things in this world that are repeatable. Repeatable. Repeatable. So a baseball pitcher, if he throws a ball with the same speed and in the same direction, spinning the ball the same, it'll end up going about the same place. And then that repeats itself, so it almost seems like there must be some rules that govern that…

It was 98 degrees with the heat index almost to 105. We were all packed on a bus with the all of our equipment, bats, helmets, gloves, jerseys, cleats, balls, and anything else we thought we needed. We arrive at our destination and start to warm up, even though we are already sweating. We are hot and sweaty with the heat being almost unbearable, but we love it, we never complain because we are here to play the game we all love. The game of softball my hero, but also my worst enemy. Softball has…

A dream deferred is one that is put off or postponed until it is more attainable and able to be achieved. There could be various reasons a dream needs to be deferred such as being unfeasible due to finances or even family life, but it is something that can or will be picked back up at a later time. Whereas a denied dream is simply unattainable and unachievable. While there may also be various reasons why a dream is denied it is still an unachievable goal. While reading the play “Fences” I felt…

Have you ever hit a softball so far it looks like a tiny dot? I will be talking about pros and cons about softball. One good thing in softball is to exercise and stay healthy because if you don't exercise for softball and stay healthy you will be too weak to play softball. One positive thing about softball is to meet with people and practice softball because you need to get better at it. One horrible thing about softball is that you can get hurt if the softball hits you hard when the pitcher…

I have grown up watching, playing, and studying many different sports, whether it be football, or baseball, or basketball, or sometimes even soccer. I have always enjoyed playing sports, however, as an athlete, I have a distinct responsibility to practice sportsmanship. Sportsmanship is one of the most important facets of sports today. Sportsmanship allows us athletes to hate the other team for the duration of the game, but respect them at the same time. Sportsmanship is defined as “fair-play,…

day outside me, my brother, and his friends were all playing Basketball outside in front of my house. I decided to play Baseball because I was just getting bored of playing the same thing every time his friends came over, but that was a mistake. I learned my lesson not to play Baseball instead of Basketball. I was a little boy at the age of 9 and I wanted to combine Baseball and Basketball it would be called, Baseketball. I decided to grab a bat and told my brother’s friend to “Throw the ball…

Injury When I was at my sister’s softball game, I was playing football during my baseball season, but it was an off day, so I didn’t have to do any baseball that day. I was playing with some 7th graders as their sisters were playing and they were throwing it high and far. While I was playing 500 with a wet NERF football and when I caught the football my wrist had a strange feeling. So, I kept playing on (not the smartest idea). It would hurt when I tried to catch it but I didn’t realize that…

Giancarlo Stanton, a famous baseball player once said “High school is what kind of grows you into the person you are. I have great memories, good and bad, some learning experiences and some that I'll take with me the rest of my life.” The four years you spend in high school are supposed to be the best yet worse and hardest years of your life. You will gain some things and lose a few, but later in life realize every loss you took, and every gain you took was for the better. In the next four…