Personal Narrative: Baseball

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

“Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game!” This quote was famously said by one of the greatest baseball players ever--Babe Ruth. Babe Ruth played in the 1920s era. This was a time of low unemployment, so many citizens spent their salaries on many activities: going to the movies, listening to jazz music, and watching sporting events. The 1920s became a time for people to enjoy their time and live life with laissez faire, or a policy or attitude of letting things take their own course. The 1920s also became a time for sports to take full effect. Athletes, such as Babe Ruth, Benny Leonard, and Harold Osborn, were at the forefront of making sports popular in the United States. Citizens of the 1920s wanted to have fun

“We 're all told at some point in time that we can no longer play the children 's game, we just don 't... don 't know when that 's gonna be. Some of us are told at eighteen, some of us are told at forty, but we 're all told.” (Moneyball 2011) This quote is referring to the game of baseball. A game that I started playing at the age of eight years old and continue to play today. Over the last eleven years I have developed greatly as a ball player and a person learning things about myself I would have never known about without the game. However it has come the time to start deciding how much longer baseball can be the focal point of my life. Baseball has brought great happiness to my me, but at some point a person has to move on and

So what made baseball be the event that made me who I am today. Well I’m about to tell you. First it was the very first baseball game I played, then it was the first game I won, after that it was the first tournament I won, last it was the first World Series I won.

I had been playing baseball for five seasons but still couldn’t get the hang of it. Since I was seven years old I could never hit a baseball, and now I was 9 and wasn’t any better. I could never take a roaring swing at the ball and let it shoot across the field. You’d think experience would make me wiser but nothing could. My father being the baseball expert he is would always drive me home after every game trying to teach me the basics. He’d say lock eyes on the ball and bring your hands toward it. He said it like it was a simple technique but it sure wasn’t for me. Baseball never was a second language for me like it was for my father and uncle. They had always played together growing up. My father would always have a fun stories about each game he played, and how

Baseball Improved my health a lot. The summer I played for Mountain range, was the summer I learned baseball is harder than I thought. I worked so hard that summer that I lost 20 pounds, I used to be 160 in 8th grade but when baseball came around it went away like dust in the wind. My coaches taught me a lot and got me physically and mentally prepared for baseball, I would not be able to hit a ball until i joined the program. After the games we played the coaches would tell us to run poles,(Which where you touch both foul poles and we would do at least 8 poles) I would run them and try to get faster every time I would see who would be in front of me and then the next game get in front of them. Baseball changed my health in many ways.

I wake up and I am not entirely sure where I am at. I am laying in a bed and rolling around as someone is pushing me. The door infront of me opens manually and I am pushed through the door still not knowing what is going on. I have a sling on my arm, but I cannot feel it at all. My right arm is numb from the shoulder down, but as I am rolled into my room I see my mother, father, and grandma sitting and waiting on me. I remember now; I just came out of shoulder surgery that could possibly make or break my baseball career. The doctor comes in and explained what happened in the operating room, and explains that everything went very well. He had no complications and that after I get food in my system that I could leave. Everything was happening

But whenever we got to hit I wouldn’t be able to hit. You see the other team never had enough players so while my team was hitting. I was stuck in right or left field kicking grass. I still loved to play ball but it got so boring not being able to hit. Well that is how baseball was for one year. Eventually baseball got more serious and I hit lots. I didn’t hit very well but I was so glad that is still

I guess what I love most about the game is you can’t sit on a lead and run out the clock. You have to throw the ball over the plate and play out the results. I will say though I have a hard time watching the game on tv but if I'm at the ballpark or coaching it (which I'm currently doing so this summer) then I can watch it all day long. I think for me there is no other sport that relates to life so much like the game of baseball does. There are so many anthologies I can pull from the game and tie them to life but that's probably a conversation for another day. Baseball is a game of so many highs and lows kinda like how life is. Currently with the American Legion team I’m helping a buddy of mine coach we have experienced highs of winning by mercy rule and come from behind wins after being down 6-0 and winning 8-7 but we have also experienced the lows like losing a close game on a walk off and getting screwed by a horrible call at home plate that cost us another one. The pain of losing stings worse than the joy of winning sometimes. To relate one example from baseball to life is this everyone wants to be around you when things are going good in life but no one wants to do the same when things aren’t.

How to increase the velocity of your pitches like I was being forced to watch them or I would die. Baseball helped me to focus on my grades, so getting into the right college would be a dream come true. So forth baseball showed me that there’s a community that makes a baseball to be a succeed and that it takes a great leader and great followers to have a well oiled baseball team. This sport makes me think about how everything is going to play out and try to combat the errors, mishaps to win the game. Baseball started to show me that I could be a good

In my younger years, I have played a couple sports like soccer and baseball. As I grew up, baseball has always stood out the most to me. Something about running the bases and hitting RBI’s brings a thrill that no other sport can give me. So I play, and I play with everything I have because that’s what baseball makes me want to do. Sure in basketball and soccer I play hard and do what I can, but I know when I’m playing baseball that’s where I excel and exceed my own expectations. I started when I was five and have loved it ever since. Some things have kept me from it in the past but I can’t help but play.

In my life, nothing has taught me more about life than the game of baseball. When you play a game that is about winning and losing since early childhood, you will be able to handle the winning and losing of life a lot easier. I experienced the ups and down’s of this game all to well, and wouldn’t be that person I am today without it.

Baseball is the most popular spring sport in the United States. Something I once participated in and now watch. Just weeks before the busy season, Dad and I were working on the beautiful field. We had been impatient, working on the field for weeks now. We worked through the slush, the mud, and now the sandy dirt. Practices started and though I do not play I am at every practice. The ding of the ball colliding with the bat, the smack of the ball hitting the glove, and the players yelling, “nice job!”

Baseball is my passion,baseball is life. I can't life without baseball. I absolutely love playing baseball.Everyday I practice with my dad he teaches me everything that I need to know about baseball. I started baseball when I was in 4 years old. First I wasn't good at it, I wanted to give up. But my dad told me to never give up in your life or you won't be a successful person you are going to give up if you don't try. I never gave up once again. I started baseball again. Days, months, years past I was getting better and better by practicing with my dad . I was filling I was a good baseball player. I felt I was a champion.

Baseball is an extremely large part of my life. I credit my parents and grandparents for getting me into the sport. At about age seven, I did not want to play any sport. Then, I was introduced to real baseball for the first time. When I was young, it was just a game. Now, it is not just a game, it is my dreams and my passion.