Personal Narrative Essay: The Worst Day Of My Life

I was so nervous for this morning’s competition. Today was the day that I had the chance to show to a judge what I had to offer into the heat of the KMEA Piano Kansas State Competition. The songs that I had practiced over from June to October were mere children’s play compared to others in the group who played pieces like Claire de Lune and the 12 Variations of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (no one in middle school with common sense would choose repertoire made for high schoolers). “Melody, make sure you go over the spots in your songs that you need to work on”, Mom said, shattering my thought process.

The 1919 World Series players took part in a scandal mainly through the influence of manager Charles Comiskey. Charles Comiskey is the primary reason that fueled the team to throw the series away by his cheapness and overall dislike. The 1988 film Eight Men Out directed by John Sayles depicts an accurate depiction of how Charles Comiskey influenced the White Sox to throw away the series. Charles Comiskey is illustrated as an unfair manager: who paid his players the minimum, a manager who didn’t keep his promise for winning the pennant, and overall the players greatly disliked Comiskey.

Thousands of people are waiting. Thousands of people are wearing jerseys and talking about their favorite football team, the Green Bay Packers. My family was part of the thousands on August 8, 2015. We had joined one of the many parties where people were excitedly waiting for Family Night at the Green Bay Packers Stadium. I really didn’t care about football at all, but I was still excited to go and watch with my family.

It was the beginning of Spring 2015 and I was in 4th grade. Baseball season was right around the corner and I was shopping for gear. My baseball team, the Alameda All-Stars, was put together by me and my twin brother, Austin, when we asked our friends if they wanted to play with us.

Softball. My favorite sport. It’s not a contact sport so, the chances of me injuring another player are slim to none. Or so i thought….. I was in Traverse City last year with my team for a softball tournament. It was the fifth inning of our morning game, we were down by a few runs and I was on deck. “There is one out,” I thought to myself “I have to get on base.”

When I was younger, I always wanted to be someone famous like a singer, an actress, or even an astronaut. But one day I came across a sport, but this was not just any boring sport to me, it was a sport that I knew I wanted to do for a career or even until I grew old. It might just be a ball and bat to some people but to me it felt more than a sport. It felt like an endless vacation from everything going bad in my life. That sport is softball. But I knew something that felt so wonderful has to have some challenges.

“Regardless of verdict of juries, no player who throws a ball game, no player who undertakes or promises to throw a game, no player who sits in conference with a bunch of crooked players and gamblers where the ways and means of throwing a ball game are discussed and does not properly tell his club about it, will ever play professional baseball again." This statement was made official by Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis in regards to the Black Sox World Series Scandal in from 1920-1920. The film Eight Men Out informs audiences about the Black Sox Scandal from all aspects, including: the people involved, the creation of the commissioner, and all the way until the verdict and later the death of Buck Weaver. The story behind this scandal deals with changes that would effect all aspects of baseball history,

With the herbaceous smell of freshly cut grass and the salty taste of sunflower seeds, a baseball field strikes me as a place where I feel perfectly content. The wonderful home of the sport I have loved as long as I can remember brings a sense of calmness. Baseball fields remind me of great memories, give me a strong sense of confidence, and cause me to strive for a greater future.

On April 15th 1947, the Brooklyn Dodgers opened their season against the Boston Braves at Ebbets field. There was a festive air to the bleachers. Brooklynites were eager to return to their national pastime after a particularly cold winter. At first glance, this appeared to be a normal opening day. However, once you panned to the first base side of the diamond, you would see anything but typical. On that day, Jackie Robinson became the first black player to play in a Major League Baseball game since the start of the 20th century. On that day, for the first time, a baseball player with extraordinary talent was not overlooked because of the colour of his skin. On that day, the modern movement of racial integration began. However, Jackie

The tying run was up to bat. The first pitch he had hit the ball far into right field. Dane Kutnik had turned on the jets, but he couldn’t even catch up to the ball. The ball had rolled all the way to the fence. May I remind you that we played on a 300 foot fence. I still cannot believe that he had thrown the ball all the way to the cut without the ball bouncing once. Tanner had been lined up perfect with me and the second he felt the ball in his glove he had rifled it to me. I had turned 180 degrees and reached in the general area that I thought he would

I stared in awe as I saw the glistening field. The sun was shining bright and there was a fresh breeze that filled me with all the hope a six year old could have. It was a perfect day, the kind of day that would have made Picasso paint. In my situation, this day gave me confidence, I wanted to learn more about this rollercoaster ride of emotion by the name of baseball. The sign up, the practice, the boys, the fail. Little did I know that this dirt filled field would be my life. Little did I know that I would grow to be more comfortable around boys than dramatic girls. (I have to admit that’s very hypocritical of me to say…) Little did I know that in the future I would have a fight with myself about this topic. (a.k.a. mood swings) After barely

Only blocks away from Lake Michigan, and just north of downtown Chicago, Wrigley Field, home of the present day Major League Baseball (MLB) team, the Chicago Cubs, compete at the most magnificent ballpark in baseball. Constructed a little longer than a century ago in the middle of surrounding neighborhoods, Wrigley obviously isn 't the most typical place to have a modern-day MLB ballpark. Because of that, Wrigley Field has that unexplainable feeling to those baseball fanatics that enter into the ballfield. The history, famous-old fashioned scoreboard, and unique dimensions of this worldly-known ballpark will be only a few features I will reveal. Everyone should have, “Go to Wrigley and watch the Cubs” on their bucket list.

As he saw the dark sky right above the trees in center field as the moon glimmered down on the field he felt as nervous as a cat that hears a mouse in the wall. The roaring of the crowd was in the air like a pack of howling wolves everyone excited to see what Aaron would do in his last at bat of the year. Finally, the first pitch simmers past him as the umpire screeched “Strike one”! The pitches then went by and they were all balls. By now the count was 3-1 against Aaron and he knew if the pitcher wanted to have a chance at getting him out. There was, a pitch right down the middle as everything seemed to be in slow motion when he swung at the ball as hard as he could. Pow! The ball went flying into the air and into the trees as cleared the outfield wall. The crowd went wild as Aaron trotted around the bases with a grin on his face. When he reached the dugout his teammates were right there congratulating him on his achievement with high fives and pats on the bag. After the game, Aarons coach greeted him with the ball that he hand he made sure that he would keep that ball for the rest of his life. Once he got home and took a shower, he laid in bed grateful for what had happened that

The Worst Hard Time, written by New York TImes’s Timothy Egan in 2006. The book takes place during a time called “The Dirty Thirties” or “the Great American Dust Bowl” a time which spanned about 10 years with very severe dust storms and drought, which estimated to have caused over $30 billion dollars worth of damage by today’s standards. The dust storms, however, were not the result of mother nature but rather the result of the industrializing world and surplus of crops which flooded the market, soon after farmers were unable to make the profit from selling their crops and slowly lost money until they could not afford to keep their land fertile. Thus causing a barren wasteland where their crops were. The timing of the Dust Bowl was also rather untimely since it occurred during the Great Depression, the longest lasting economic slump in the history of the United

It was the change of an inning. I went into the dugout, got my drink of my water and rested my arm for the next inning of pitching. First batter was up for our team, he got a hit. The second batter, strikes out. Then next thing I know is there is two people in front of me before I am up to bat. So I get in my bag to get my batting gloves, helmet, and everything else I needed to go hit. I stand towards the front of the dugout till it is my turn to take some practice swings in the on-deck circle. The batter that was up got walked and now it was my time to do my pre-hit routine in the batters box. I took three swings, then stretch, then talked to people in the crowd to not sike myself out before