How Baseball Has Changed My Life

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“The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the team won’t be worth a dime.”-Babe Ruth. I have played baseball my whole life, but it truly changed my life the day I tried out for the East Coast Sox. I woke up bright and early on a Saturday morning, I knew I had baseball try outs. I was excited, so I took a shower and got dressed. I went into the kitchen to eat some breakfast, and there stood my dad asked if I was ready, I told him I was really excited and nervous, because all of my friends were trying out for this team. If I didn't make the team I would be the only one that wouldn't play on the team.My dad said I would do fine and to just have fun,my dad always told me that day and years before to act like it is a wiffle ball game,so I would have fun instead of being too competitive.My dad and I got into the car and drove to FNC baseball park. On the way there my dad was just giving me a pep talk, …show more content…

They told me to go warm up with the team, after we got done warming up they told us to head to the outfield. I got my first fly ball and they told me to throw it home. I threw a rocket to home plate. We got 3 fly balls each and I did the same on all of them. The coach told me I had a good arm, so he told me to go to shortstop. I was excited because short stop is my favorite position to play. I got my first ground ball and threw the guy out it was like taking candy from a baby. After we took infield, our head coach told us to put on our helmets and grab our bats.I went in to hit and at first I thought I was to going hit good, then I started popping everything up in the air I didn't hit that great, but I wasn't gonna let that stop me from having a good try out. After we hit, we got to pitch and I pitched really good and my off speed was really

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