The Importance Of Baseball

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Baseball has come along way in America with a great quantity of change over the years. Some time ago, segregation was huge in America. It was so bad that black and whites were not allowed to play on the same baseball field; two well-known leagues were created, the Negro Leagues and Major Leagues. Jackie Robinson was the first African-American to play in the Major leagues with all white people. Robinson had to deal with a lot of hatred and rude comments from the fans. Despite all of his suffering, we can thank Jackie Robinson for enduring the hatred which led to Major League Baseball to have players from almost all over the world playing together. Likewise, I play baseball and have many factors about how I got introduced to the sport and how I came to love it. My father was a professional baseball player in Mexico. Being in one of the best baseball academies gave him the great pride of being selected to represent the city of Mexico. He started …show more content…

As a kid, I could say that it was mainly thrown at me because my father never really put me into a another sport. All the time and effort I have put into baseball just to quit would be a huge waste. I seem to be pretty good at it, so why stop? Baseball grew on me as I became older and older. I never really asked myself if I liked it or not. Nor did any other sport seemed to interest me as I came to notice when playing for fun with my friends. Baseball has gave me the chance to be able to play in so many cities I never thought I would ever visit. One of my really far trips was to Myrtle Beach in South Carolina. It was about a week long and it was extremely fun. We played teams from all over, yet we managed to come in third place out of twenty-seven teams. The amount of talent we competed against was astonishing. I really enjoyed being able to play against teams from different states and beating

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