Personal Narrative: A Baseball Story

For a young baseball player one of the highest goals to achieve is hitting a homerun -for me that was all I wanted. I already achieved most of what I wanted in baseball, and one of my proudest was a no-hitter, but it was no home run. When I first realized how bad I wanted this feat was one night after a practice where all we did was just hit. The majority of my teammates hit at least one homerun that practice, but me I hit the fence but never was able to send one over. The car ride home after the practice was horrible, I was a mess.

Then my dad came home in time that day, so we went to the batting cages. I step in the cage that throws bullets instead of baseballs. I line my feet up with the artificial plate. I look up to see a baseball hurdling towards me like a meteor. Even though the baseball moved ninety miles per-hour it was moving in slow motion.

Imagine a day in the life minor league baseball player. In a typical day, they do so much for nothing. In the morning they get up and make a quick breakfast, they eat it on the go and continue with their day. They get into their car and go straight to the field where they see their teammates getting ready for their warm up. They throw some ball and they start to talk with their coach and see what the plan for the upcoming practice will be.

Later, in the future I learned that it had an immensely colossal part of why I play baseball. If it wasn 't for my dad buying me that glove I would have never played baseball. Now, baseball denotes everything to me I perpetuate to learn how it avails me through life and how it 's kindred to life itself. The edifications I have learned from baseball availed me through

Jackie Robinson was born on January 31st, 1919 in Cairo Georgia. Was the youngest of five children, so wasn’t noticed by his parents much. His brother, Mack, was a track star, earning a silver medal in the 1936 Olympics, the main reason that Jackie was drawn to sports at such an early age. In high school, Jackie lettered in four different sports, baseball, football,

Jackies career consisted of many obstacle and barriers that he had to jump over, through his childhood times, his come up to being a MLB player, and lastly his time of becoming a hall of famer. I. With Jackie being persistent which his choice of a sport only known as a white sport overall, trying to make his way to the MLB created a huge stir in the game of baseball. a. In this biography it states that Jackie said that “You might say that I turned professional at an early age,”

One day my softball team and I were on the way to a game. We were having fun laughing, having a great time. We were pumped, it was our first game and we had practiced till our bodies ached. The bus driver took a turn and we were wondering is this the right way.

Baseball seemed to be my life when I was a little kid. Playing catch, hitting balls, pitching, the whole nine yards. It has always a life long dream of mine to play Major League Baseball. I was a little kid with big dreams, nothing seemed to be impossible. I got older though,

Write as I was just about in my dad said,”Wyatt you 're pitching.” I said in my dang it because I didn 't know what was. Then I jogged to him he had a white and gray catchers glove on. He told me to throw a fast ball and I hurled the ball write were his glove was.

He was so into Mo that he didn 't notice her hands moving around the dresser. I couldn 't believe what I was seeing in front of me, was this shit really happening in my house? This is mom 's husband. This is the man that took me to my first baseball game.

The first pitch crack of the ball off the bat a triple. The next 3 kids hit doubles. The first Batter was up to the plate. He had hit the ball right to our third basemen,but he fielded it too quick and bobbled it. The batter had made it to first base.

On July 16th, 1996 The New York Mets roughed up the Philadelphia Phillies by a score of 7 to 5. One player who contributed to this win was a rookie by the name of Paul Wilson, who just came off six weeks of rest for his right shoulder. Although it was the return of Paul Wilson, there was another Met that over shadowed Wilson, and this guy was Jerry DiPolo. Mr. DiPolo came into the game during the fifth inning with runners on second and third and no outs. Outstandingly enough, he walked off that mound not conceding one run to the Phillies, which gave the crowd something to cheer about and he picked up the win, in just one inning that he pitched.

Riley Timmons Mr.Forbes September 16, 2015 4th Hour Personal Narrative Broken Baseball Player The general definition of a teammate is a person who works with their team towards a common goal. Now what kind of teammate would I be if I stopped helping my baseball squad achieve their goal, just because I was injured? I tried to picture what the game would be like in my head; me sitting in the stands while my team lost the tournament. The fill-in pitcher for my team threw the batter an easy ball, resulting in another home run.

In two days, the Chicago Cubs added two potentially important pieces to their bullpen at a very small cost. These relievers could help one of the weaker parts of the roster into a strength. And this could all be thanks to Theo and Jed, who decided to pick up a couple of guys most had never heard of. Jack Leathersich, a twenty five year old southpaw, was claimed off of waivers from the New York Mets on Thursday, November 19th. He had only made seventeen major league appearances before an ACL injury forced him into Tommy John Surgery last summer.

I told him about my aspirations and he witnessed that I had become a talented pitcher. After the first fall ball game and my step father observed the coach 's response and as the coached chuckled and he noticed my step father observing him, but he had no idea that the man observing him was my step father. After the game he stepped up to speak with the coach and as he introduced himself to the coach, he called me over and told the coach this is my soon to be step son. Ironically, the coaches demeanor completely changed that day we had a second game and I was called up to pitch and I pitched three innings that with only one hit, and no walks.