Jeff Wallace
LAR 112
Professor Harris
December 14, 2011
Baseball: Love of the Game
I believe that the game of baseball has many life lessons that go along with it. The game has taught me many things not only about myself, but about others around me as well. It also helps people express who they are and how dedicated they are to being on a winning team. Baseball relates to aspects of one’s life and the underlying meaning of certain times one will go through on their way to success.
During the many years I have spent playing and coaching the game of baseball, I have become a believer that being a part of a sport gives people that extra drive in life needed to get through challenging parts in one’s life. When I coached younger kids and taught them how to play the game the correct way, I watched them mature and grow up at a very young age. Some of these kids were becoming much more mature than their age said they were because simply learning and interacting with rules and fun baseball consists of.
When playing the game for myself, I found out that it helped even me through daily circumstances. I could relate baseball to everyday life almost every time I played the game. I believe that when I step on the field I become something greater than myself; I become part of a team. This team allows me to become someone/something greater than I can ever explain. It gives me the right to be a part of an organization that people come to watch and envy. Every time the seasons change I can count down the days until opening day, and that day gives me such an overwhelming amount of pride because on that day, I become a star. I become entertainment for someone else’s satisfaction. I become a baseball player.
After all is said and done, baseball is life to me and I believe there is no tenth inning. The game is played and between the lines, but the lines to me are life and death. This game means the world to me and I believe that it should mean more to every individual who is a competitor.
