Ballball Research Paper
GOING… GOING… GONE! One blistering summers’ day in Northwest Florida, home for college, Jay was cleaning out the garage. This was apart of his mother’s summer clean sweep project, which she did every year. Jay comes from a family who is very involved in sports. So as he was singing the childhood clean up and going through and sorting the football pads, softballs, baseball, batting and fielding gloves, sweet bands, and other athletic equipment and sports wear he came across a recognizable object. It was his old bat. The Bat he used in little league almost 10 years ago. This was the first bat that Jay ever had. As Jay held the dusty, paint chipped, dry-rotting but yet still majestic bat in his hands, fond memories of the typical day at the ballpark began to flood his mind. As Jay held the bat a strong but at the same time pleasant rubbery smell jumped out first, which stimulated his mind back to all the wonderful smell the he experience at the ballpark. The most hypnotizing smell of a ballpark is the food. Scorching popping grease overwhelms the air. The smell of the burgers, hotdogs, sausages, and chicken on the Barbeque grill adds a sweet delicious smell that can almost be tasted in the air. There is a potent smell of chemical at the ballpark. The smell is most commonly referred to as the “new” smell. This
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The bat has small but noticeable stops of paint missing, which created little potholes. This reminds Jay of the ups and downs of a baseball game and a baseball season. Every baseball player should know that there are only a few at bat key and a few key plays in the field that true impact the out of come of a game. The game could swing in your favorite at any moment of time during the game. The plays come unannounced that why baseball is a battle of ups and
The bat has small but noticeable stops of paint missing, which created little potholes. This reminds Jay of the ups and downs of a baseball game and a baseball season. Every baseball player should know that there are only a few at bat key and a few key plays in the field that true impact the out of come of a game. The game could swing in your favorite at any moment of time during the game. The plays come unannounced that why baseball is a battle of ups and