There are three fundamental skills of baseball: hitting, catching, and throwing. Coach Cook asked me to talk to all of you, because he thinks you all do not want to practice. To succeed in baseball, you must practice because repetition is the key. Whenever one repeats an action it becomes customary and easy for one to perform a task.

When I was a ballplayer, my teams were very successful because my coaches told us the importance of practicing. One year my coach could not coach us because he did not have the time to do it. That same year the teams were shuffled and everybody had different teammates. My best friend, Wes Cook, made it on my team. Wes was the best player anybody had ever seen. However, He did not enjoy practicing. He thought he could succeed without practicing

. Our new coach was laidback at practice. This made Wes especially happy. Coach did not make the team practice hard; we just had to catch fly balls, ground balls, and practice hitting. I batted third after We. My team, the Price Drug Braves, started the season hot; we won our first five games.

After I had a talk with the players, their coach told me they vastly improved. He made practices harder. The team responded by playing very good in their final five games. During those games, the team performed with only minor errors. They reached the playoffs and were beaten by a team that was better than them. But they have also got permission from their parents to start practicing for next year. They got the ok from their parents; so know the team is practicing for next year so they can win the city championship. The players reacted toward the story about their coach as if it were a challenge for them to succeed.

swing is tilted up, the ball has the tendency to go in the blue sky. If the swing is tilted down, the ball has a tendency to roll across the green turf on the field.

Ever since that summer day, Wes has been diligent in practicing fundamentals. He has excelled in every aspect of the game and he was drafted by the Chicago White Sox to play major league baseball. However, last summer he tore his a tendon in his knee, he had to return home and get a job, because the torn tendon ended his career. So what I am trying to tell you kids is that if you practice and learn from your mistakes, you can be a superior player and excel in baseball. "I think that it is imperative that each of you ballplayers know that you must practice to thrive to be successful." This story is just one of many stories about kids that succeeded when they practiced to sharpen their skills.

As the season starting winding down, my team was tied for first place with the Winn-Dixie Giants. Our final game was against them. The game started, and soon we fell behind in the game by three runs. When we came to bat, we scored two runs to making the score 3-2. The Giants eventually scored another run. The game was a stale mate until the final inning, inning number 6. I came in to pitch. The first batter I faced was the most powerful hitter in the league. He had already hit eight homeruns. He whacked my first pitch deep to left field; as the leftfielder went back I stood hoping it would not go over the fence. It barely went fo

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