Baseball: The Game That Changed My Life

Going…going…gone! As one of America’s greatest pastimes, baseball brings fans from around the world to support their players in competitive games against opposing teams. Known as the “Great American Game,” baseball has transformed history and influenced American culture for many years. Famous professional players, including Jackie Robinson, Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, Pete Rose, and countless others have impacted America in matters beyond the baseball field. Robinson, for example, shattered the racial barrier

Ever since I was young I always loved going to professional baseball games. One thing that has always been my top priority when going to games is to get a professional major league ball. So, for my topic I chose youtuber and professional ballhawk, (Someone who collects major league baseball's) Zack Hample. He travels around different stadiums in the country and collects major league baseball's. His lifetime total is currently over nine-thousand. This essay will show how Zack Hample became such an

activity that changed my life. I showed interest in sports around the age of five. Baseball was my favorite sports at this time of my life. The only sports I watched when I was younger was baseball. . I fell in love with baseball before any other sport because it involved catching, running and throwing. I took every baseball opportunity I had and ran with it. Baseball was a way for me to express my creativity and develop my social skills. I was a kid who was shy and timid around others. My early sports

In this world, there are events in your life that change you for the better or worse. These are the moments you should hold dear to, either valuable or dreadful, the most because of your experience you can learn from them or remember why that event changed you for the better. Today I will be telling you three events that transformed me for the surpassing. In addition, my first meaningful event was when I first accepted Christ into my heart. I was ten years old at first I did not know what I was

Lets take a look into why I believe that baseball has not only followed in the footsteps our “Great Country”, but is still “America’s Pastime.” Ask yourself, “is baseball our country’s sport, has it not evolved with our great nation?” The answer is yes, for many reasons. Lets take a look back in history, “President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared, ‘that all persons held

knows what you've done your whole life. I have been a successor at many things in my life, but baseball seems to be the only thing that I’m most successful at in my life. I’ve been playing baseball since I was three years old! When I was about six or seven I fell in love with the most beautiful game on the planet. In school when I don't understand something mathematically or really any subject I try to relate it to baseball in any way, shape, or form because baseball is the thing I understand the most

2015 A Simple Game of Catch Though time goes on and experiences past, the memories live on and forever they last. Life is a gift of beauty yet sometimes that gift can be tarnished by the darkness of pain. However, it’s the simple aspects of life that truly define who we are as individuals. A simple game of catch is all it ever took to make that darkness of life fade. A simple game of catch is all it ever took to bring back the happiness that had been taken away. A simple game of catch is all

for this. It takes over one hundred and sixty-two games to decide what two teams will compete for it all. The fall classic, or World Series, and America’s pastimes biggest stage. The World Series brings people together, brings economic growth, and brings passion of the game of baseball to its fans. This past year, the curse that lasted over one hundred and eight years, was uplifted from baseball’s most beloved team, the Chicago Cubs. Baseball is known as America’s pastime for a reason. It has

issue ever since sports has been around. In the early years of sports, men’s were the only gender to play, and the women’s were to sit in the bleachers and spectate. Women could not do things that men could do. However, in the last century, things changed as women are now being allowed to take part in professional leagues such as the Women’s National Basketball Association, and the Ladies Professional Golf Association. Especially Softball and Basketball as these businesses has been changing the history

books with different themes. One book that really caught my eye was The Natural by Bernard Malamud. It was a book on how the sport of baseball really impacted a life and how it helped him understand the way of life. That is why I chose an article written by Kent Cartwright and Mary McElroy called “Malamud’s “The Natural” and the appeal of baseball in American culture. The title of this article caught my attention because we all see baseball as an American sport and I wanted to see how that affects