I am only 13 years old so I don't have many major regrets in my life yet, only little things. Some of those little things include being mean to my siblings and being mean to people in general. I wish that I could take back all of the times that I was mean and I wish I was kinder in those times. Somethings that I wish I had done was play more sports growing up. I play baseball but I wish that played sports like basketball and soccer at a younger age. I would be a lot better at those sports if I played them more throughout my life. I also wish that I had switched to a public school at an earlier age. I loved my Elementry School so much that I wish I had gone earlier in my life. My very first school was small with only about 100 kids total, …show more content…
but my 2nd elementry school was much larger with at least 1000 kids at it. I had a great elementry school experience because of both school, but I think that it woul have been better if I changed school earlier. Next, I wish that I could change the fact that I do not live closer to some of my family.
I have cousins who live in Maryland but I wish that they lived in Florida so I could visit them more often. When my family drives up to Maryland to visit, it is always a long drive to get there and it would be much easier if they only lived a little while away. My family means a lot to me so it would be amazing if they were all lived close to me. Although it is nice to be in the cold and snowy weather in Maryland, I prefer the warm sunny days down in here Florida. You can always make a vacation out of seeing your family but I would rather see them more often and for them to be easier to …show more content…
see. On the topic of changing things, one other thing I wish I could change is myself. I wish that I was more outgoing and that could be less shy and talk to more people and do more activities. Also, I wish that I could make myself work harder in school and at sports. I think that I am a hard worker already, but I just wish that I could go that extra mile and push myself to be better. I wish that I worked harder because I want to do great things such as become a professional baseball player or become a forensic scientist. Both of those jobs require a lot of hard work so I need to push myself to become better. I think that my friends would describe me as kind, funny, and a bit of a nerd. I mean nerd in a good way because I like video games and comics and all that kind of stuff. I always try to be the best friend that I can be so I hope that they think of me as a good friend. I also think that they think of me as a fun person becuase my friends and I hang out and play video games a lot. Being a good friend is a key part in any friend ship and I hope that I can always be there for my friends. As I stated before, I hope to be a professional baseball player or forensic scientist and crime scene investigator in the future.
Throughout my life my main goal was to become a baseball player and I have been working towards it since I was little. Becoming a forensic scientist has become a recent goal for me. I enjoy watching C.S.I shows and think that the profession is very amazing. Although I love the idea for working for the C.S.I, I don't want to go after people and risk being hurt so I think working in labs or just checkig out crime scenes is perfect. Whatever I become later in my life, I know I will be making an impact and helping out the
world. A dream I've alway wanted to become a reality is to travel the world when I grow up. Some countries in particular I hope to visit are Japan, China, Australia, Brazil, and Canada. I've only seen pictures of those countris but I hope I can get to experience the culture myself. Another dream of mine is to do something that would change the world. It could be becoming president or inventing something to save peoples lives, I just want to know that made an impact. My parent s have always said shoot for the stars and dream big, one day I will make nthose dreams become a reality. I always want people to remember me for good things. I hope people remember me for my positive attitiude and my funny jokes. I also want to be remembered for having good grades and getting things done, no matter how hard they are. I don't want to be remebered for bad things and being a bad kid. I'm sure that I will be remembered in positive ways and for good things. So far, my life is pretty good and I don't have much to worry about. But one thing is for sure no matter what I do , my life is going to be a wild ride.
With about 83 players currently to in the MLB, 682 players since 1950, and so far 2 players in the Hall of Fame with much more to get inducted, it’s clear that the Dominican Republic dominates the game of baseball. In the Dominican Republic, baseball is the country’s pastime and official sport. Baseball doesn’t discriminate, regardless of gender, race, and economic status. In my personal view, baseball runs in the blood and embedded in the genetic coding of Dominicans. As a person whose mother and father are Dominican and born and raised in Miami, there seems to be little to nothing that connects me to their culture. Nonetheless, this Miami-born Dominican- American is proud to say that the sport I love the most can connect me to the Dominican
Softball Softball, what is it for people? Most people see it as just a game, others a way of life and many others believe in something else. Even if you don’t play softball or any sport for that matter. We can all agree that when we find our passion, we find meaning in it. It can impact your life in a good or bad way.
“It’s a long drive, Deep to center, The centerfielder is back, Way back, At the wall...It bounces off the wall. One Run is in the second is being waved around third, There’s going to be a play at the plate. The relay, The throw, He slides...” If that didn’t get your blood pumping than I don’t know what will. Baseball is filled with intensity and adrenaline. That is just one reason why baseball is a lot better than all other sports.
American culture is in my opinion a mixture of all cultures in the world. In some states, minorities have become majorities because of the huge masses that have immigrated there. Those groups have integrated their own customs to Americans and at the same time, have made American customs part of their lives. In that enormous alloy called Americans, you can meet diverse kinds of persons, languages, foods and words. At the same time, specific traits make this culture as any other unique. The British writer Lesley Hazleton describes in the essay The First Game her experience when she attended a baseball game for the first time in her life. It was her first time visiting America as well and the way the scene is described shows in some way her perception of what Americans are. Among their several qualities, she distinguished the idolization of achievers and their lives based on a theocentric society.
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Major League Baseball, much like the majority of other American institutions, was racially segregated. A color barrier was implemented during baseball’s infancy in order to separate people of different race to cater to the white American players. The color barrier was an unofficial “rule” that hindered those with dark skin from playing baseball for Major League teams. The color barrier was enforced by preventing any teams with a colored player from competing at the professional level. Many team owners, umpires, and players justified their opposition to allowing blacks to play by declaring that only whites could uphold the "gentlemanly character" of professional baseball. Others argued that excluding blacks would prevent future racial resentment between the ethnicities, as players of different races would be competing for the same job opportunities.
Everybody values and views sports in different ways. Most athletes believe that the sport they excel in is the easiest and the best to play. Most baseball players believe that baseball is not the easiest sport to play, even if they excel in baseball. Baseball has a 282 page rule book, but other sports like football only have 82 pages of rules to follow. Baseball is unique because it is the only sport where the defense controls the ball, and where doing good on offense thirty percent of the time is considered good.
Baseball has been in my life since I was a little boy. I've been playing since I could walk and haven't missed a season yet. I've been to many minor league games that are not professional but players in these leagues can become professional over time. I feel as if I am very capable of going far with it. I'd like to play all the way throughout college and hope I get noticed by a scout. Once I'm done with college if I haven't been drafted into the MLB then I'd probably try to play for the minor leagues in hopes of being noticed there. Ultimately my dream is to be drafted into the MLB and play professional baseball.
For the past one hundred years in the United States, the best American past time was baseball. A typical game day would include a dad and son going to a game and catching a foul ball. But what happens if a war breaks out and the dads and the players on the team are enlisting? Who will play? During World War II, the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) was created. A movie called “A League of their Own” was based off of the AAGPBL. The director of the movie is somewhat accurate to what happened in the AAGPBL. The director of this movie was Penny Marshall (Barnes and Nobel). The producer of the film is Elliot Abbott and it was copyrighted on July 1st, 1992 (IMDb.com). The movie has three main characters. Tom Hanks plays Jimmy Dugan, Geena Davis plays Dottie Hinson, and Lori Petty plays Kit Keller. I really enjoyed this movie and I hope you might have some interest in it after you read this essay.
Many people don't understand the point in playing baseball. Why would someone swing a stick, hit a ball, and try to get back to where they started before the ball returns? What pleasure is there in that? Why not participate in a sport like wrestling or track where there is an obvious level of individual improvement and therefore pleasure. Well, I play baseball because of the love I have for the sport, and because of the feeling that overwhelms me every time I walk onto a baseball field. When I walk onto a field I am given the desire to better myself not only as an athlete, but also as a person. The thoughts and feelings I get drive me to work hard towards my goals and to be a better person. The most relevant example of these feelings is when I stepped on the field at Runyon Complex in Pueblo, Colorado during our high school state playoffs in 2003. This baseball field will always be an important place to me.
One diamond, four plates, nine players, a sweaty uniform, cleats, a bat, and a ball are the only things I’ve dreamt of since my first baseball practice when I was three years old. I remember the way it felt to smack the ball off of the tee and have everyone in the stands cheer and scream for me as I ran for first base as fast as I could and never wanting to leave the field even after it had gotten dark outside and all the field lights had been shut off. Baseball has been all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life from the very beginning. I can’t imagine doing anything other than eating, sleeping, and breathing the game of baseball. So when people ask me, “What are your plans after high school?” all I’ve ever known myself to say back was, “I’m not sure but it 'll have something to do with baseball.” With this being said, I have decided to be a baseball coach so I can pass down the knowledge I have for the game I love so much to people younger than me that love it just the same as I have and still do.
Softball has been played for some time now, by many people and by different countries . In fact softball was a creation by a man that also helped give people the idea of baseball as well. Till this very day softball has been apart of the olympics since the early 1990’s . When trying to get softball into the olympics wasn’t as easy as getting baseball into the olympics. The new candidates for the new Olympic softball team can easily help get them back in the game, and maybe make history.
A travel of over 3000 miles for some, a 210 mile drive for me, just to arrive at the biggest gathering of over 1,500 twelve year olds; all just to play baseball. The only place that would be suitable for such an event is Cooperstown Dream Parks, every baseball players heaven. Cars have come to Cooperstown from everywhere for this week long tournament. I met children my age from all over the United states. I became friends with kids from Ohio, Illinois, California, I even met a player from Puerto Rico who barely spoke any english. The windows of everyone 's car decorated with the names and numbers of teams and players. Excited baseball teams spill from their Barracks and hustle toward the already crowded seating area. Festive music played over
My dream ever since I can remember was to play baseball at the highest level possible, and play baseball for as long as my body lets me. My goal is to reach my maximum potential as a baseball player and a student at the same time. I make school just as important as I do baseball, because I have a good understanding of the importance of an education and know that your playing days don’t last forever. I believe this quality gives me an edge over other baseball players since this makes me more than just a one dimensional athlete.
My interest in forensic science dates back to when I was twelve years, where I got hooked on crime shows. I remember being so amazed how they found the criminal easily even though they were fake shows. Chemistry sparked my interest in the field when I got a B with ease. I then did some research where I found interest in the jobs I could do. That is where I found a job to be a forensic science technician. There it seemed I should pursue a career in forensic science.
My entire life I had pushed for success through baseball. I have a passion for baseball more than anything on else in my life. I began at a very young age and have spent a large majority of my life preparing and bettering myself for an upcoming game or season. As I've grew I've came to a realization this is a game of failure. I have failed twice as many times as I've had success. Still I find myself resorting back to this sport. As I've developed I have continued to train and push myself. At age 15 I stopped and asked myself “what is this for?” Now I am closing in on age 18. I still find myself stopping and repeating the question.