Personal Narrative: America's Pastime: Baseball

Thus is the nature of baseball, a fickle game wrought with tradition, the foremost of which is the iron clad law mandating that the game is cruel and will take away as freely as it gives. My father always told me, “Baseball is a game of errors - the best hitters fail seven out of ten times - the key to success is knowing how to deal with the failure.” It is this aspect of the game, its want to frustrate and demoralize the player, that I think has driven most of my

Many people don't understand the point in playing baseball. Why would someone swing a stick, hit a ball, and try to get back to where they started before the ball returns? What pleasure is there in that? Why not participate in a sport like wrestling or track where there is an obvious level of individual improvement and therefore pleasure. Well, I play baseball because of the love I have for the sport, and because of the feeling that overwhelms me every time I walk onto a baseball field. When I walk onto a field I am given the desire to better myself not only as an athlete, but also as a person. The thoughts and feelings I get drive me to work hard towards my goals and to be a better person. The most relevant

Baseball to the vast majority sounds like that one Sport where whatever you do is lounge around and hold up to hear the break of the bat. That’s not what the sport of baseball genuinely is. But to me, this sport has transmuted the way I see life all in all. Each and every athlete on the team has been illuminated to have extraordinary dedicated demeanor, regardless if it's in a training room or pregame warmups. Mentors have disposed initiative chances to teammates year after year and this this season it's my turn in light of my strong efforts and sturdy and my competency to be on the team. I did not turn into the individual that I am by lounging around. If it wasnt for baseball,

As the crowd boos, you hear the New York Yankee commentator say “coming up to bat after a long year of suspension it’s the third basemen for the New York Yankees, Alex Rodriguez”. I grew up in awe watching great Yankee third basemen Alex Rodriguez. I remember playing baseball and trying to do everything he did, like how he chewed his gum, and how he wore his baseball socks. I would also imitate his batting stance as played. But all of a sudden the player I once looked up to tested positive for steroids.

Every kids dream is become a Professional Baseball Player. I still remember when I first started baseball, I was only 4 years old so young and small. Baseball has shown me how to use my head by focusing on everything. Growing up with baseball has changed my life dramatically, It taught me to become a smarter individual and a better athlete. Baseball has never let me down.

Baseball brings a lot of fun times, but it also brings times of sorrow. Baseball is a huge part of my life. Baseball is actually the only consistent thing I have had in my life besides my family. In any sport, getting injured is always a bad thing. Before injuring myself I was a catcher, and I absolutely loved it. The catcher in baseball is equal to the quarterback on a football team. They are the most important players on the field. Most of the time both positions are captains of the team. Catching causes a lot of wear and tear to the ligaments in our knees, which is never a good thing, especially when I was going on my 5th year of catching.

Baseball has always been one of my greatest interests. I've played baseball since I was 5 years old and have always been a leader on the field. I began a program called IAD-TLA, Institute of Athletic Development - Training Leaders through Athletics, my freshman year to further my leadership skills. This program really helped me focus on my goals and led me to extreme hard work and dedication to any goals I had, even excluding athletics. I continued working hard for the next 2 years, and became a Varsity captain by my junior year. I continued this into the summer where I led my team to an undefeated season. Two of my strongest qualities are my leadership abilities and my work ethic and both have brought me so far in athletics and life.

Baseball is a very important part of my life. I started baseball when I was very young. I use baseball as place where I can be myself. Baseball has not only been sport to me, but it has taught me an immense amount of life lessons. Baseball has taught me teamwork, balancing time, and work ethic.

Baseball has always been a passion of mine. I remember when I was younger I would eat, sleep, and breathe baseball. I enjoyed the lifestyle that I adapted as a ballplayer. As a shortstop, I was the captian of the infield. The field and the infielders were my responsibility, and I had to make sure everything was in line. Whether it was calling off a pop fly in the infield, reading the runnners to determine if they were going to steal, or calling for a pickoff move, it was always my responsibility to make the right decisions. However, the coaches always made an effort to show that what what you do off the field is what truly matters. They taught me that being a good person and helping others is more important than turning a double play for the

In my past, 6 years ago, this sport came into my life and it was the best choice of my life to take. Every year I was developing a positive attitude towards my coaches, teammates, and other players around me. Being a positive person towards this sport has made me a good person outside of this sport as well. This made a better catcher also because if one of my players made a mistake I would always use this positive attitude to help support them and pick them up. Using this positive attitude; many teammates, parents, and coaches learn from me that the game is only a game to have fun too. From having this positive attitude brings me to my present self in this sport.

Throughout the course of my twenty-two year life, roughly eighteen of those years have been wrapped firmly around sports. From a young age, I was able to experience a vast range of sporting events. Whether I participated or just spectated, sports such as football, basketball, baseball, and golf, have sculpted and driven my life since I was a young toddler, to now potentially having a career in the sports industry. As my knowledge and understanding in the world of sports has grown over the years, one sport began to stand out among the rest in terms of level of enjoyment and potential career choice, with that sport being baseball. From playing tee ball at age four, to skipping school five straight years to go watch the Texas Rangers play on Opening

The sport of baseball is what i value the most. I value that because i have been playing that game for 10 years now. I started play when i was four years old that has been my favorite sport since i was little. People ask me why i value this so much this is what i tell them. I favorite this sport because baseball is the best sport to play and whenever i have nothing to do i practice baseball to get better and be better than other people. So the story of why i love this sport is when my dad first threw a baseball at me when i was 4 years old and when he threw the ball at me at that moment when he threw the ball at me i knew from that moment i knew that i was meant to play baseball. So after i grew up playing baseball. and then when when i got

I like to pride myself on not only being good at sports but being pretty good at sports. Also I am a very kind person, and I always try to be empathetic to other people so I will know how they feel about different things. Baseball is pretty much everything in my life from the moment I wake up and the moment I go to sleep. Right when I get home from school I go to the cages and hit or throw for multiple hours at a time. One of the things I love to do is travel, and I get the opportunity to do this because of baseball.

An artifact that I have to share from my life is the hobby of playing baseball. Baseball is my favorite sport to play, it is played with a bat, a fielding glove, and a baseball which is pitched to the batter to see if the batter can hit the ball within 3 strikes so the person batting won’t strikeout won’t strike out. This is crucial for me because my dad played baseball when he was younger and was really good and that makes me want to strive to get better. Also, this is key to me because my coaches and teammates on my team are the best and it makes me want to get better for them. All in all, baseball is the sport I love and care the most about, so that edges me want to go all out to get better and not let my teammates or coaches down.

I was five years old, my father signed me up to play tee ball. My first game was the worst game of my life, I didn’t know what to do, I was playing outfield and the baseball was hit to me so I grabbed it and ran it towards the pitcher’s mound. I was young and didn't know what I was doing. Now I have learned a lot about baseball, and I am still learning today. Baseball is a vital part of my life, I would not know what I would do without it. Baseball has turned me into a super competitive person. I absolutely hate losing! Baseball has also changed me into a hard working person. Baseball has beaten me to the ground, to the point where I want to quit, but I never quit I always get back up and work on whatever I need to do to get better. I work hard day and day out to perfect any skills that I am lacking. So technically baseball has transformed me into a hardworking