Autobiography Of Ken Griffey Jr

One summer’s day in 2014, I borrowed my neighbor’s lawn mower and met my teammates at the batting cage. I began mowing down the weeds, while they raked. Others restretched the netting back across the top of the cage. By the time the afternoon came we had a batting cage and a real sense of pride. From that day forward, we began practicing every day, year round. We talked baseball, walked baseball, lived and breathed the stuff. We shared our equipment and made do with what we had. We turned ourselves from a rag-tag bunch of misfits into a

Ever since I could remember, I have always had a great interest and love for the game of baseball. As a kid, I would spend countless hours in the backyard with my grandfather, or even by myself, tossing, hitting and fielding a baseball. When I wasn't in the yard pretending to be Nomar Garciaparra I would watch the Boston Red Sox games on TV with my Grandfather.  Even in my early adolescence, as impatient as most are, I had the patience to sit there and watch the Sox.With my eyes glued to the screen with a look of anticipation fixed on my face ready to mimic my grandfather with the excitement of a home run hit or the frustration of Mo-Vaughn striking out. Call me crazy, but I was addicted, even as a young boy, to Boston Red Sox baseball.

My soccer practices on every wednesday was always exciting and fun and usually not much justice there, but one time my half team was losing against the other half and we “scored” and tied the game. I knew it didn’t go in and the coach said it did but I knew that it wasn’t fair so I made them take away the goal. Jackie Robinson also had to show a lot of courage when he became a Major League Baseball player. Jackie Robinson possessed the character traits courage, justice, and persistence that made him a successful civil rights advocate.

Jackie Robinson, 42, first black man to play on a team of all whites and make it to the world championship. He rocks. His number is retired and people wear the number 42 on their jersey every year for one day because of him. All of this information I got from the movie 42. The movie was amazing and very good! In the beginning when it showed how he became selected was different than what I imagined it would’ve been done. During the movie there were threats from white people saying they’d come where Robinson lived and hurt him or something, so he left with the black reporter guy who later became a part of the American Baseball Press or whatever it was called. However, Robinson thought that he was

"Pitching is the art of instilling fear" (Sandy Koufax). These are the words Sanford ¨Sandy¨ Koufax believed in, and strived towards throughout his entire Hall of Fame baseball career. Through his impeccable talents on and off the field, Sandy was able to engraft the characteristics of trust, loyalty, and determination into all of the hearts of those who watched him. Sandy Koufax was the most influential baseball player of the 1960s, because he had a lot of experience with the game of baseball since he was young, he had a great impact on the people who watched him because of his actions, and he helped pave the way for the game of baseball to become even better.

Jackie Robinson changed baseball forever because of his will to not stop and work harder every day. Robinson created a picture of integration in society in the 1950s. “The success of the experiment put Segregation under society's microscope. It forced people to take a different look at race America ” (Robinson Affected American Society). Robinson made white people and every other racist person take a second look at African Americans in sports, he showed them that white people are not the only ones

Book on Jackie Robinson’s Life. This source shows how Jackie was treated, being the first black man to play in the Major League’s. Jackie Robinson was treated terribly, however he put up with his treatment and became a star figure in American history. This shows how he encountered racism and discrimination, but stood up for himself and created a path for black

If I could meet anyone in human history, I would choose to meet Jackie Robinson. Jackie broke the color barrier in baseball as he was the first African American to play. Many African Americans had tried to play baseball prior to him but they could not withstand all of the backlash that they got. Once Jackie did make it to the big leagues, people would make racist gestures and say hurtful words to him nonstop. Many people in his position would have quit because they couldn't handle it, but he didn’t. He fought through adversity and proved all of his doubters wrong. Along with doing this, he paved the way for many more African Americans to play baseball in the future and the game is now greatly populated with African Americans.

I am currently a senior at Weslaco East High School I was a third grader when baseball had caught my interest, baseball will always have a gigantic impact on my life, because I have met most of my friends through the game ,and I consider them family and my friends fathers, including mine all use to play when they were our age so it basically brought us closer, because we all had something in common. I was originally born in Orlando, Florida, but both my parents decided to come to a very small city called Weslaco, which is in the Rio Grande Valley which can be located in Texas. Weslaco isn’t the biggest City in the world, but this city has made me who I am today and because of this city I have met so many of my friends and family. I have made powerful memories here with the

MY FIRST BASEBALL TROPHY When i was 6 yrs old, I lived in Burleson, Texas. The whole time I lived there I was playing paseball constantly. My very first season of baseball, I was 6 years old. It was a very hot season of baseball. On the very last game of the season it started to rain, and even though it was raining we still played the game.

"A life is not important except in the impact it has on others' lives." This quote was said by Jackie Robinson who was important in paving the way for other black athletes in professional sports. He was the first black baseball player to play in Major League Baseball.What would professional sports be without all the greatest black athletes such as Michael Jordan, Muhammad Ali or Jackie Robinson? Today the NBA is filled with a large majority of African American players. The NBA would be nothing without those players. Muhammad Ali was a boxer, businessman and social activist for equal rights for all races. He wanted equal opportunities for all men, regardless of color, to be successful. Michael Jordan was considered the best basketball

There are few words to describe how proud I am of my little Georgia! Oh, it seems like just yesterday she hit her first homerun. And now, she’s all grown up, playing for a professional baseball team! Everytime she picks up that bat, it’s like there’s some sort of energy that goes from the bat, to her fingers, and all over the inside of her body, you can definitley tell that baseball really is her passion. At the time, I thought it was absolutely horrible that girls were not allowed to play baseball! Who would think that because of a war, a young woman got the chance to persue her dreams? I guess that just goes to show, every cloud has a silver lining.

I am from watching every single game of the Washington Nationals and New England Patriots that my eyes would POP right out of their sockets. I’m from dedicating my down time to the white leather ball with red stitches, and the blue of the Tidewater Drillers organization. I live for the feeling of the ball jumping off my bat, and the ball popping in the pocket of my glove. I’m from the satisfying sound of CRACK when you crush the ball like a rocket into outer space. I’m from the breaking and curving when you put a crazy amount of spin on it. I’m from camping out behind the plate ready to take on anything in my way. From blocking balls, throwing runners out, and calling pitches. I’m from only using Rawlings and Wilson gloves or else I would

My parents surprised me with courtside tickets at a UNC game. Final Four game to be more specific. I knew this matchup against Duke would be a tough one. Indiana University is really my favorite college, but they only made it to the Elite Eight and got knocked out by Kentucky. Little did I know, I was going to meet one of my biggest inspirations. Not just my biggest inspiration, but most of basketball’s biggest inspiration. The greatest player of all time.

When my parents separated early at the age of 11, the more I was confused what I was going to do with my life. The first thing that came to my mind is to become a professional basketball player like my idol Michael Jordan. When it comes to skin color, I thought, we’re close. So, I guess I could make a career out of it. I practiced from breakfast until dinner almost day. Every time I join a league, I was soo excited that I can win the game with my 3 points shot at the last minute. But I win almost every game sitting on bench. My team didn’t want to play most of the time as we’re playing against the big guys. For small people, this is a big insult to us. I rebelled. I quit the game.