Baseball When we had our first game against Chicago cubs. We were the first batter. I was the first one to hit, here comes the first pitch "strike". Everybody was cheering for me. here comes the second pitch, I hit the ball...and it was a home run. Everybody was cheering and honking. Then the 3 strikes was done. We were next to play. I was the pitcher when I threw the ball it was strike one. Then I pitch again then hit it towards out field then he was on first base. Then it was the second…
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It was a beaming hot day, I was in the car with my parents going to a baseball game. On the way there I looked out the car window, observing the vibrant nature that was flying by. “Hey, are you ready for your baseball game today?” my parents asked. “Yes.” I said, “Yes.” I was not being honest, because today I was going to quit baseball forever. Once again I turned to the window, slowly drowning out my parents' conversation. As I looked out the window I began to wonder how my parents would react when…
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in my next couple paragraphs.Last year at Rhino Baseball we went to Cooperstown for a tournament we prepared for that tournament in the offseason. It was a privilege to play in a tournament that had over 100 teams and 20 baseball fields in Cooperstown New York. Before we got to Cooperstown we went to Niagara Falls we got to go almost right under the falls and got splashed with water. Then we went to the park and it was the coolest baseball park I've ever seen. Our team had to stay in dorms…
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Baseball Day One bright and early morning i woke up and i had realized i had a baseball game today. After getting dressed and ready i knew i still had a 1 hour drive to Lakeville Indiana. But on the ride to Lakeville i was getting pumped and ready for my game. The way i was getting pumped was by listening to my music on the way there. But finally we were there. This sports complex is one of the nicest sports complexes i had ever been to in my life. They had cement walkways and a huge black top…
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view, signage on the glass in front of them, sitting in a rowdy section when you have young children with you, overpaying for parking, and so on. I guess it was only a matter of time before it happened to me. I was taking a girl out on a date to a baseball game. I spent over $200 dollars on lower level tickets so we would have great seats. As fate would have it, we had part of another section partially blocking our field of view for the game. I was disappointed and more so frustrated. This is not…
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bat, I’ve been a standout player on the baseball diamond. Each and every one of my six seasons as a Little League player, I was elected to the all-star team. As I would round the bases after a hit, it never even crossed my mind that another one of my peers wasn’t blessed with the same talents that I was. Throughout my Little League career, I was fortunate enough to be surrounded by coaches, including my own father, who helped teach me the game of baseball. It was not until much later in my life that…
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It was the end of the fall baseball season of 2013, and the fall baseball tournament was coming up. Ever since I started playing baseball at the age of nine, I had never had a serious injury. I did not know the challenge of coming back from a injury. I believe that going through a challenge and succeeding, such as coming back from an injury, can better you as a person. After winning the first four games of the tournament, we had made it to the championship game at 8:00 PM on sunday night . I was…
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teammates were going to do and if we were going to win. It took my team lots of preparation, but at the end of the day, it is how well you perform in clutch situations and also how good your attitude is. After a subpar performance on the first day of my baseball tournament, not only was I frustrated with myself, I was frustrated with my team. Walking back to the car with my dad, I was sharing my opinion about how I performed, but also how my teammates performed as well. My dad was not fond of my attitude…
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I loved since little and that is baseball. I started baseball probably at the age of seven or six years old. When I started my struggles were horrible, but I thought looking at major league game making it easy at plays and I thought it was same plan for little league but it was absolutely wrong. Baseball is a sport where you have to work days,nights trying to improve your skills. At the age of eight I started to understand, to know play baseball, but it wasn’t a big improvement I…
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NY to live out a dream as a twelve year old travel baseball player, playing in the Cooperstown Dreamspark. This is the granddaddy of all baseball tournaments. Only twelve year olds can go to play here and live their dreams. Hints the name Dreamspark. The guy that had this brilliant idea isn't even from New York, he is from right here is Salisbury, NC. The importance of an event being place every year in Cooperstown, NY is because the Baseball Hall of Fame is located in the same town. We are…
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