Personal Narrative: How Baseball Changed My Life

I was 6 years old, and it was my first baseball game. My parents were watching me play for the first time. The weather was sunny with a cool breeze. From practicing with my father all these months for my first game. It was finally show time for my baseball career to start. These events changed who I am today because it gave me a deep lesson about life. At the time I wouldn’t have known how baseball was going to change my life and learn many lessons from it. Looking at the screen and seeing players like Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez and Barry Bonds do things other baseball players couldn’t do at the time. When I would see them on the screen playing all I could see myself being one of them down the road. Baseball really started gaining my interest

Funny thing is that it was just a first-grade league, and it was all just for fun. In the leagues that I played in when I was younger, it was all just for fun, we never got awards for being the best team. Then it all started to become more of a competition when I was getting older. While I was getting older throughout the years my father was my coach, that had made me for comfortable playing the game. Wanting to strive to win games and be the best player out there on the field. When I got to high school and started playing with everyone at my level and with some good friends at the time. For my freshman year, I went out to play second base because it was the ideal position for me. Throughout my life playing baseball I played many positions, but second base was the most relaxing for me. I was more relaxed there because that’s where my father had taught me to play at. Second base had lots of reasonability’s with other positions on the field and I was already for that. Starting the summer of 2016 my father wanted me to play first base because he wanted me to more involved for the senior year and also showing that I can play other positions in the