Essay On Baseball Mental Aspect

Garrett Holpuch
Professor Williams
English 101
5 March 2023
Baseball’s Mental Aspect Baseball, I genuinely believe, is the most challenging sport to exist. A baseball weighs 5 ounces and is 9 inches in diameter, with a circumference of 2.9 inches and 108 intricately hand-woven stitches to keep the cowhide casing on the ball and for players to grip the 0.3-inch raised seams when throwing. The average baseball bat is 33 inches and weighs 30 ounces. At the same time, the average MLB fastball is 95.3 miles per hour. The distance from the plate to the mound is 60 feet 6 inches, giving batters 0.425 seconds to see the ball. Better yet, players must hit a round ball with a round bat, making everything that already seems complex sound impossible.

Coaches can have intense lifting programs, specific diets for individual players, and repercussions for mistakes on the field. But with all of the focus solely on the game's physical aspect, players will suffer inconsistent results when the time comes. Being physically fit is essential to baseball, but it is not everything. Having a physically and emotionally flexible player with good self-confidence when pitching will often be better than a player with a hot head that is commonly either very good or very bad. A level head of understanding that, in baseball terms, shit happens will give players a better understanding of situations and keep self-confidence high. With speeches and books, Cohn has also developed “personal evaluation sheets” for players to fill out and work towards understanding their mental process after success and failure. Through the worksheets, it is commonly found that players who are more demanding on themselves after a failure tend not to be as excited when success happens. Giving the thought process of “expectation instead of success.” When a player is so wrapped up in failure, the thought process of what success looks like can diminish. Giving the player no true satisfaction with success but the feeling that they met what is