Personal Narrative: High School Baseball Team

This is a story of baseball and how it is a team sport. The book relates with the title by showing how this boy named Sandy Comstock that plays on the Grantville Raiders and has a big game coming up. It was against the Newtown Raptors. He wanted to beat them and become one of the best teams. By the time he knew it he ended up on the Newtown Raptors team and he was going to play is old team. It was kind of like a baseball turnaround.

It's been five years and a half since I take the decision to leave the baseball team. Five years ago I was on a baseball team. I join the baseball team because I like baseball and my family like it too. I join a new team so I didn't know anybody on the team. The longest practices we have had on the team are from 5pm to 12am, and the shortest practices we have had are from 5pm to 9pm. The position that I use to play on was on the first base. But the problem was that I didn’t have enough time to sleep. I slept about 5 hours every night. Because I wasn’t sleeping enough I couldn’t do my homework from school or study. My grades start to go down and I was falling asleep in class.

I would recommend this to those people because it was alway hooking me in and I never wanted to put the book down. The baseball part is about Michael and his Clippers team when they made it all the way to the Little League World Series. The dream of Michael the protagonist in the story it is to make it to the Little League World Series and he does and that makes the book so interesting to me because I can relate to it. The cliffhangers in the book are really good. Usually in books when the chapter ends I like to take a break but in this book I never wanted to put it down. The baseball in the book is a little unrealistic but it’s ok because I still enjoyed it and you should read it if you enjoy baseball and cliffhangers in one

As soon as I made my very first varsity baseball appearance, I knew that I had to be the very best I could be or there was never going to be a chance of ever putting on that white and maroon crisp cleaned dri-fit Russel number 18 jersey. My heart was beating beyond faster than it should be at my first at bat because I had always heard “Just wait you haven't seen nothing yet, wait till you face them varsity pitchers.” Players older than me had constantly been saying that throughout my freshman season and it kept repeating over and over in my head like a broken record. Although I had studied the pitcher and had seen with my very own eyes, he wasn’t as good as everyone talked him up to be. I was still overawed and very nervous about messing up.

I am reading the book Full Court Press by Mike Lupica this book is about a group of boys and girl that live in downtown Chicago. The boys that are on the basketball team are always trying to do their best during the games. The kids love working together to win games and make plays happen. In this journal I will be grading the book that I have read and be talking about why I gave it the grade I did and how I like it. I give this book a solid B+ due to many different things that I will be talking about throughout my journal.

Center field by Robert Lipsyte was an extraordinary book about Mike Semak is basically home alone. His parents, coming home only on occasion, fret over every detail of his high school career while spending all their time at their new flooring store. A passing altercation in a hallway with another student draws threats of lawsuits and criminal charges. Mike’s baseball team, and much of his school, Ridgedale High, is run by Coach Cody, a mysterious former Army Ranger hired as “dean of discipline” because “there had been gang violence and drug dealing in nearby New Jersey towns. The school board was afraid it would spread to Ridgedale.”

I step up to the plate. The hot lights of the Mets stadium hit my face. Clayton Kershaw was pitching. He is the best pitcher in the MLB. The pitch comes. It was a slow hanging curveball right over the middle. I swing will all my might. I hear the crack of the bat and I see the ball fly over the fence. I trot around the bases and I am approaching home plate. I step on home then I wake up.

I am a baseball player who loves to play baseball and very good at it,

For a 12-year-old Cuban boy living in the Bronx, baseball is his family's only way out and means a better tomorrow. In the novel, Heat by Mike Lupica, baseball represents a way out and a better tomorrow. He loves baseball and idolizes the Yankees pitcher El Grande, who was also Cuban-born. Michael Arroyo is a young boy who has reasons to distrust the representatives of the state must figure out how to continue life on his own terms while navigating the adult world and avoiding both the well-meaning and the badly-intentioned interference of grown-ups. Michael is also the best baseball pitcher on his South Bronx all-star team. Michael's arm is so good, that a rival Little League coach begins requesting proof that he's only 12 and eligible to play. They ask for his father but, recently, his father took a trip to Florida and had a heart attack, killing him. Michael and his 17-year-old brother Carlos, are trying to avoid Child Protective Services until Carlos turns 18.

This summer I read an outstanding book called Heat by MIke Lupica. This book includes a lot of baseball and when you start this book you won’t stop reading it!If you like baseball this book is definitely for you, I was able to connect with the character and his love for the sport. The characters in this book are Michael, the main character who loves baseball and is the best pitcher in his league. Carlos, Michael’s brother who will do anything to keep them together. Mr.Gibbs, an official person who wants to know the truth about Michael and Carlos’ father,but also wants to help them. Manny, Michael’s best friend who wants to help as much as he can, but wants to make it to the Little League World Series. Another character is Mrs.C, Mrs.C tried

The book has to deal with baseball scouts looking for talented players. There are three good players on the Rosemont Rockets, Dave, Glen and Roberto. They try to focus on the game throughout the story, basically. The main characters are of course, Dave, Glen, and Roberto. They are the people in the story that has the front row seat, the ones that the book is based off of, so yeah. I would say, their conflicts are mainly just trying to focus on the game of baseball. Having school or any other outside of baseball activity can sometimes slow down or take their mind off of their main goal. They do play baseball but at the same time, they do have a life so they aren't able to

Chris Givens was a middle school boy and he loved to play baseball. Chris lived and breathed baseball. He would watch every game he could. Also, the only sport he played was baseball so he was the best at it. However, there was one problem for Chris. He was not one the most popular kids. Only the most popular kids were picked onto the school's baseball team. Chris had tried to act cool and even hang out with cool kids, but it never worked out. Even though Chris was not like everyone on the baseball team he is determined to be the first kid to make the baseball who wasn’t popular.

osh is our protagonist in this book he is the kid with all the power and looks and overall a great guy. During the run to the championship Josh goes up to bat a gets hit with a beanball right in the cheek and is down even though he is hurting he stays in the game. On the next defensive series he turns a triple play to win the Championship Game now the move on to the Hall of Fame Tour in Cooperstown. This book takes place With Josh and his two other friends Jaden and Benji they spend time out on the lake at each other’s houses and of course the baseball field. The big conflict in this story is that they made it to the Championship game in the Hall of Fame tour and Josh’s best friend Jaden goes and reports for the rival team with star baseball

I always consider myself to play Major League baseball; as I grew up; I realized that I would need a backup plan. By the seventh grade I noticed that I liked to do hands on activities and problem solve difficult tasks. I displayed all the interests of an electrical engineer. I believe that the interest really may have started at an even younger age. My father has been a maintenance technician for almost 25 years. In say that, I enjoyed watching my dad fix things which sparked my interest in fixing things, or at least look into the engineering field.

Cora and is spotted by police. He then runs off to a baseball field where Michael Arroyo waits with a baseball in his hand. The thief continues to run towards right field where Michael throws a perfect line and hits the thief in the head making him unconscious. This gives him attention with the media that he doesn’t really want. Michaels 11-12 year old all-star team has good chances at making it to the Little League World Series, but without their star pitcher, Michael, their chances are slimmed down drastically. The reason they don’t have him is because Michael Arroyo migrated from Cuba when he was younger and in the process he forgot his birth certificate. When dads from opposing teams get suspicious of his age they file a complaint. Michael must show proof of his age to play but this proves difficult considering it is in Cuba. During practice he sees a mysterious girl watching from a distance. He approaches her with his best friend, Manny, and finds her name is Ellie. Later in the story he finds Ellie may be a different person than whom he thought she was. His brother works two jobs according to himself but Michael finds otherwise when he sees his brother being let out of a cop car after scalping tickets instead of being a bus boy at a restaurant. This book is full of twists and