isn’t always a good thing‚ especially when it’s painful. Sports have always been a big part of my life‚ but one in particular has my heart. Softball has always had a big impact on me and how I view myself. I have been playing softball ever since I could pick up a ball. The sport was an escape from all the negativity around me at that point in time. Playing softball was like seeing sunshine for first time‚ mesmerizing. As I grew playing the sport‚ I started to push myself more than my body could take
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You’re suppose to hit the ball with the aluminium stick and its supposed to go to the grass‚ and then you have to run around the white things sticking out of the ground. Thats all I knew about the game of softball‚ but I still wanted to play and learn. Both my parents played‚ and I always went to their games and wanted to be out there with them. I didin’t care if I was out in the beating sun with dust flying everywhere‚ it was the place to be. When my parents told me they had signed me up for
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History of softball General purpose: To inform Specific purpose: to inform my audience how softball was introduced‚ the inventor‚ and the softball leagues that were formed. Thesis: when we consider the history of softball‚ it’s easy to see how the game developed as a younger sibling of baseball. What might not be quite so obvious is how three other sports helped shape softball. I. Introduction: Would you ever think a boating house‚ a boxing glove‚ and a football game could invent such an amazing
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femininity affected by our genetic make up? - How does the impact of social environment compare to that of the biological forces in human? - Is it human nature? Or nurture? SELF SOME KEY AUTHORS: • Charles Horton Cooley • George Herbert Mead • Sigmund Freud CHARLES HORTON COOLEY’S LOOKING GLASS SELF • How does this notion of the
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started playing town-ball for softball. I was getting to be a better player and my mom thought it would be a good idea for me to play travel ball. At first I didn’t like that idea because I didn’t know anyone and I didn’t think I was going to make it on the team. Luckily I did make the team and I loved the idea of getting to play softball all summer long. I enjoyed softball but then my coach had started to bench me and wouldn’t tell me why and I wanted to quit softball altogether. I wanted to quit
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for many years in softball as well as in baseball. Now‚ those two words will not be heard in the Olympics for at least half a decade. Softball is a big part in the lives of many women and taking it out of the 2012 Olympics is crushing their dreams. The sport should be reinstated in the 2016 Olympics because the sport will die if it is not‚ it gives young girls a dream‚ and it will greatly decrease the amount of women participating in the Olympic Games. Softball has been in the Olympics
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matter‚ almost everyone tried to dissuade him. They recommended drawing more popular sports like baseball‚ tennis or basketball. The author’s decision to draw an American football comic was a ‘Hail Mary throw’. ‘Hail Mary throw’ refers to the element of luck in some strategies of American footbal. QB throws a really long pass and hopes one of the receivers will be able to catch the ball. In the comic‚ Hiruma‚ the QB of the hero’s team‚ often used this strategy when his team had been trailing. As a result
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The Softball Disappointment It is the bottom of the ninth and I was last at bat. The ball came zooming towards me at a high rate of speed. The vibration of metal meeting leather rang out in my hands. No hesitation was made. I dropped the bat and ran as fast as I could to first base. My coach was telling me to keep going because the ball was fumbled. I rounded third base and my coach motioned for me to take it home with a slide. Down I went. Dust was flying. The crowd was standing and cheering loudly
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Imagine looking forward to just one thing all year‚ and that one thing got ruined. That is how I felt about this game. It completely crushed me. The Harleton softball game has shaped me because of the build up‚ the people around me‚ and how I felt during the game. The build up all started on the first day of softball practice. Right as I walked through the dugout door the softball team started talking about Harleton. One of my teammates was talking about Harleton’s pitcher‚ “Have y’all heard that
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Softball Then and Now When I was nine years old‚ I switched schools. I went from Freeman Public School to Holy Redeemer Catholic School. This is where I was introduced to sports since my previous school didn’t offer any sports for the students. The first sport I played was basketball. I also played volleyball and softball. It was in fourth grade that I first started playing softball‚ and my dad found me an old ragged‚ leather‚ ball glove to start with. It was so old that the color was faded to
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