An Important Day It was just an average day in the life of a 5th grade kid who woke up having to go to school. Little did I know I was going to come home to such a dramatic 30 minute experience that could have made me a completely different person than who I am today. Every once in awhile I will replay the sequence of events that happened on this day. It all started with a rough day at school. I was not really the greatest kid back at my middle school. My day was me getting in trouble at school and coming home to pretty upset parents. As soon as I stepped foot in the door, I asked my dad “Dad let’s go outside throw, and catch some ground balls. My dad as a kid was always tough on me cause he knew it would pay off in the future of me playing the game I love. As we began to start I missed a couple of ground balls so he kind of got on me and yelled at me. I eventually got so tired of him getting on me that I said, “ Dad I quit. I do not want to play baseball anymore!”. By far the biggest lie I have ever told in my life. We ended up going inside for dinner he began to tell me how I was making a huge mistake. He began to tell me how this end friendships that would last forever. Which at the time I did not believe, but once that I thought everything through he was right. I am now 17 years old and my best friend in my life right now was on that team so if I were to quit I would probably not have him in my life. It was not just about friends either. If i were to quit I would not have half of the memories that my dad and I still share to this day. All the tournaments, practices, and most importantly the championships would not be in my memory if it was not for my dad keeping me playing the game that I love. If time traveling was a real thing I would relive the ages 7-14 over and over and over again. That is how much fun those years were. I would be miserable without this game. If baseball was not in my life let’s be honest, I would be nothing. It has done a lot more for me than just a hobby. This game has taught me many lessons such as hard work and most importantly dedication. These lessons have made such an impact on my life. I use these skills everyday when I’m either in school,
The air is tainted with the fumes of cherry blossom, hairspray and “Scarlet” red nail polish. Pink and white paint add texture to the walls. Week old clothes begin to hide underneath the solitary wooden mahogany chair as new, fresh clothes take their place as head of the drawer. Pieces of pencil shavings cover the once pastel pink carpet while the white fan creaks once it hits a 180-degree angle. A battle between bright yellow and soft white light occurs when someone decides to take settle on the full- size bed.
Baseball does many things for me. Baseball gives me the opportunity to get into college someday with cheaper tuition, the privilege to meet new people with the same passion for baseball, and it has gives me the
Since I can remember, I was in love with game of baseball. I believe that when I was a kid, baseball taught me how to be passionate. I remember always impatiently waiting to play catch with my Dad or play wiffleball with my brother. I believe baseball has taught me more than just passion but it has also taught me a number of life lessons and has also shaped who I am as a person today.
I must have seen too many innings during my first game with my father, because i could not stop talking about how good the game was. During the first practice with my own baseball team, I could vividly recall what happened in the previous day. After my father had informed me that he would take me to the baseball game. This was going to be a better opportunity for my case because I was going to learn more about baseball. Although I wasn't sure he was going to take me to the real game unlike other days when he used to stop me from
Baseball always seemed rather natural to me. With my dad being a basketball coach, it honestly was my mother’s doing that picked up a glove and ball. It probably was because her side of the family seemed to compile an interesting set of baseball junkies, her even playing for Team USA Softball one summer, and my god-father (her brother) garnering tons of scholarship offers and major league try-outs for his work on the mound. Baseball just was in me. Something that was organic, fun, and exhilarating. For the most part, I excelled from the start. However, just as baseball played an innocent childhood role in my life, it also presented me with one of the biggest life lessons that I have experienced.
I was sitting in the back of the taxi in Ukraine. The car moved and I began to see the one I love fade into the gray night fog. I will never forget the feeling I had during that moment. Like something was being ripped from my heart - a moment of great despair as I leave both my family and my country.
Baseball has been so much more than just a passion and sport for me. It has taught me life lessons and given me the determination to succeed in whatever I do in
Have you ever loved something so much, your world would be incomplete without it? For me, that is baseball. From t-ball to high school, many of my life lessons have been learned on the field. Without baseball, I would not be the person I have become. I am now six-foot four and throughout my childhood I have always been at least six inches taller than my peers.
Baseball is an American sport and it has been a sport since the 1800’s. I started playing baseball when I was only four years old and I still play till this day. My journey in high school playing baseball had it’s up and downs. Not making the high school baseball team as a freshman was not a good feeling, but experiencing that feeling of failure made me a better baseball player in the up coming years. Baseball was very important in my life at the time. My parents just got a divorce and I was trying to learn how to live with that. Baseball was my place for happiness when I was growing up. I didn't anticipate learning an important life lesson that would define my love for the game even more then I already did.
I fell in love with the game of baseball from the moment that I was old enough to realize what the game was all about, up to this point in my life baseball has given me countless opportunities to grow not only as a baseball player but as a person. I truly believe that the game of baseball can teach you lessons about life while also giving you countless opportunities to better your life if you put in the work.
Baseball is the reason I turned out to be the person I am today. It has taught me lifelong lessons that I will carry with me off this earth. The hard work and focus and also the integrity I put into it was because of my coaches. They pushed me every step of the way. When I wanted to give up they were there to tell me keep going strive for greatness. At a young age I tried out for T-Ball, made it to little league where I won most valuable player, and ended my baseball career in high school.
Me and my dad have never really seen eye to eye. He sees homework as a study tool, and I see it as a teacher trying to torture me by bringing work to home. But the one thing we have in common is we both like baseball so he decided to take me to a baseball game to teach some of the stuff he knew about baseball. But that’s not all we were going to do that Sunday.
Like a slug, I inched my way to his office. When I opened the door I was astonished. Coach and all the seniors were sitting there. They told me to sit down, so I did. Coach and the seniors took turns telling me why they chose me as captain and all this other stuff. They told me how great of a player I was and the ending of the game was not my fault and it did not define me as a player. They kept telling me how I was the best player to come through the school and how I was on my way to do great things. They said I just had a bad at bat at a bad
When we got home from the game my dad was not happy. My dad was yelling about the game and how late it was. All night he was talking about it and how he wanted to leave during the game. The next day my dad said he wanted to take me out of the baseball league. I was fine with that because I didn’t like playing baseball
I remember it like it was yesterday, the day that changed my life forever. On March 9th of 2011, my mom was diagnosed with skin cancer in her lung. The doctor gave her about six months to live and this is how it went.