Pitcher

Sports are extremely time consuming and require dedication and hard work. Baseball has played a critical role in my life ever since I could walk. The older I got, the more baseball has become competitive to me. Baseball is more than just a game to me, it is more like a lifestyle. Day-in and day-out, I work on my hitting stance and pitching form to better my performance on the field. No matter what anyone says, baseball is one of the greatest sports that this country has had the opportunity to…

For as long as I can remember, I have always played as the left fielder in baseball. Playing this position was always easy for me. When I estimated the trajectory of a ball speeding through the air, I could always run to where I thought it would be and catch it. It was as if the outfield became my home, I was comfortable there. One day during practice, my coach told me to try and play as the first baseman. This position was so much more difficult than playing in the outfield. Switching to this…

There's No Place Like Home By: Mikaela Johnson APPLETON--Having a great family from the beginning lead Janel Batten to becoming the Softball star she is today. The player, the teacher, the coach; Mrs. Batten was friendly, caring, hard working, dedicated, and a passionate person who once was part of the Appleton East staff and is now in The Hall of Fame. Playing softball for Appleton East until she graduated in 1991; Janel Batten went to college to become a teacher. After returning in 1998…

Baseball is the prefect sport for all season long. Getting dirty in the sand, making awesome plays, hitting home runs, and making your own team, that is cool. It does not matter where you are, as long you have a baseball bat, a glove, ball, time, effort, and leadership, and sport man ship. Does not matter if you are in the street, backyard, garage, or a football field. It also shows you a valuable lesson, even for me sharing. Yep that is it sharing, you take turns to bat, get the ball, and play…

Pow! First hit of the game and I am sprinting hard to each base “get down! get down! get down!” my coach screams as I am running to third base. It all started when I was only four years old. It was tee-ball at first. When I turned six years old I started playing coaches pitch. Then, I turned eight years old that’s when the real excitement came in with fast pitch softball. I have realized that the passion I have for softball is very strong. Softball has really helped me establish honorable grades…

Thomas Flacco has proven time and time again that baseball is the sport he is meant to be playing. Throughout his four years on the Eastern Baseball team he received many tremendous achievements. He has never doubted that baseball is the sport he wants to be playing. “I stayed with baseball because it was all I knew. I loved playing it as a kid and I never thought about not playing it in high school.” Tom said. Baseball was one of the many sports Tom played during his time at Eastern, the rest…

Runners running, I can see them sweat. Jumpers are jumping into a pit of sand, it feels soft. Parents watching, I can see them on the bleachers. Coaches yelling, I can hear them yelling. . Throwers throwing a softball. One of my beliefs is track and field Track and field makes me healthy. Last year when I started track and field, at the time I didn’t want to do track and field at all. My dad kept on begging me to join the team. Later on he told me that it is healthy for me. He told me that you…

On Sunday I went to baseball practice at 2 o'clock at the middle school. Not everyone was there and there were some new kids that were not there last year. For the first half-hour all we did was throw to each other and stretch. My partner was Theodore. Coach said if we miss it was five pushup. Next I started out playing first base, we started out a little rusty but then we were all doing good. One drill was we had to take a ground ball and then run and get another ball and throw it to…

Since graduating from the University of Michigan she has been nominated and has won many awards for her spectacular work. Also since Sierra has gotten bigger and more popular not just in the world of softball she has made her own website. Sierra has also made her own eye black and a tool that goes with your glove. Also rumor has it that Romero will be playing in the 2020 summer olympics.Sierra Romero is a very smart and talented women in and out of softball that is why she is my idol. For her to…

As my spiked cleat slides across the torn and tattered mound, familiar vibrations run up my leg. My foot finds its place, and once again I explode off the mound, whipping my arm around my body as fast as possible. The ball flies out of my palm and toward the catcher, a sharp popping sound ringing through the air as the ball finds its way into her glove. The ball is quickly thrown back to me as the first strike is called and I pace around the white lines of the pitching circle, my cleats…