Pitcher

It was a 2-1 count. My team, the Cardinals, were just one out away from winning the game, and I was just one out away from getting a perfect game. A knuckle curve was called from our team’s catcher and… strike three! You’re out! When I was around nine years old, I pitched a perfect game. When I was six years old and had never played anything, but soccer and flag football, my dad asked me whether I wanted to play baseball for the summer or soccer. Of course it was like the toughest decision I…

MORGANTOWN, W.Va.--Graduation is a special moment a young adult's life. It is a moment that he or she waits four or five years for. Maybe more or less depending on the situation. But some student athletes don't get the pleasure of walking across the stage in front of their family or friends because of the sport they participate in. That rang true for the West Virginia University baseball team. On the day that several Mountaineers were supposed to receive their diploma, the team was finishing…

My favorite hobby is playing softball during school ball and ASA ball. You can learn to play softball by joining a team and practicing on your free time. Softball can be a difficult sport if you don’t listen; you’re not going to know what to do if you don’t pay attention. When you play, you want to be able to play multiple postitions so that you don’t have to sit the bench. I was taught to play all positions but my main posistioins are shortstop and centerfield; if you are fast you will play one…

What is one weakness you have? I do not have much experience with airplanes but I work hard and I can learn fast. I can take information from other workers and find anyway to help. What is one thing you do well? I can speak well in front of people and I can handle stressful situations Why Are You Looking for a Job? - I have been interested in space/flight all my life and the best way to follow my dreams is to work with flight. Here I hope to take knowledge and carry it with me. I want to know…

Kansas City Royals pitcher Edinson Volquez is the ace of the Royals pitching staff and he just pitched them to a World Series victory over the New York Mets. You may think that he can only throw that fast and accurate because he is bigger than you but there is much more to pitching than just the size of the pitcher. Even though pitching deals with the strength someone has to be a good pitcher you have to understand the physics and the force behind the actual pitch. In pitching you will need to…

How does baseball pitch in to the play Fences? Baseball is a very common past time in America. Many races and ages play this sport in the major league, but it has not always been this way. Troy got to play baseball, but he never got to go to the major league. At the time Jackie Robinson had become the first African American player in the major league, Troy was already in his 40’s. Throughout Fences, Troy makes baseball references mainly by symbolism. The author shows Troy using baseball terms…

When thinking of an exciting and unusual time in my life, I think back to a time when I felt the highest thrill along with feeling very low. It was my freshman year of high school and me and my best friend Mike were ecstatic to try out for the baseball team at Forrest High School (now Westside High). We had been playing baseball together since we were kids and our goal was to be the next pair of great ballplayers to come through Forrest. We had been working for that moment all our lives and it…

The author Michael J. Mooney creates a dominant impression of the character Bill Fong by giving details regarding Mr. Fong’s “quirks” throughout the story The Most Amazing Bowling Story Ever. Mooney refers to a few peculiar actions made by Fong. These acts include, taking notes when there is the slightest error, the character making adjustments to how he is bowling in the game, his approach while bowling, and how Fong refers to himself as “lucky” regarding a few incidences. In the story, the…

Every time that I run my fingers along the raised stitches of a softball, I think back to the time I played softball. My fingers needed to be in an exact position on the stitches in order for me to throw the perfect pitch. It’s a chapter of my life that doesn’t bring back all happy memories. I spent six years of my life being a star, and I’ll admit it. I had extreme talent when it came to playing softball. It was like I was born for the game. Everything came so naturally to me. But I wasn’t born…

Jackie Robinson Robby Crack! The ball soared up and out of the stadium. I smiled as I jogged around the bases, ignoring the racist comments being screamed at me. I had just hit my 137 home run. I break color barriers that no one else has dared to, and I changed the game of baseball forever. Growing up my mother taught me to ignore racial slurs and negative comments. I took these lessons to the field I played incredibly, while facing even more challenge off the field. I am Jackie Robinson, the…