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Baseball Phenomenological Framework

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A phenomenological framework will be adopted in this research to allow the players to describe their internal, subjective feelings about baseball and its impact on their lives. Phenomenology seeks to discover the lived experience of a person. It involves the intuition of the subject and the consciousness apparent during (Henderson, 2006). Leedy and Ormrod (2005) stressed that lengthy interviews are valuable when perspectives and understandings of situations and events are desired.
The interview will focus on the impact of baseball in their present life, career, family, friend. If they are still involved in playing and if they used it in their life in how baseball help their lives. Direct quotations from the interview and questionnaire are

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