Becoming A Professional Baseball Player - 2103 Words

It starts off as just a dream. One that is born the first time you wrap your fingers around a bat or slip on your fathers old worn leather glove. For most of us, that dream passes us by without us even realizing it. But for a select few, that dream could very well become a reality. Unfortunately, even for the gifted few, chasing that dream will never be easy, especially when that dream is to become a professional baseball player. It’s a long trip to the Major League, one filled with many twists and turns. In baseball, the workload that each player goes through increases immensely as they advance through High School, College and the Minor Leagues. Baseball is a game played with a bat and ball and is played between two teams of†¦show more content†¦In order to switch between batting and fielding, the team on the field must record three outs. After each team both fields and hit, it is considered an inning. A single game comprised of a total of nine innings, and the team with the most amount of runs at the end of the game wins. It is this sport that evokes more nostalgia among Americans than any other. So many people end up playing this game sometime during their life that it has become known as the national pastime†. It is also known as being one of the only democratic games. Unlike other sports like football and basketball, baseball has no bias to a person height or weight and can be played by basically anyone. This great game originated before the American Civil War and was originally called â€Å"rounders† (Michlich). It was nothing more than a simple and humble game that was played on fields across Am erica. In 1871 the first professional baseball league was born but it wasn’t until the beginning of the 20th century, until it became popular in large cities across America. As the sport grew the teams were divided into two leagues, the National and American and during the regular season, a team played only against other teams within its league (Michlich). The team with the most victories in each league was said to have won the pennant† and the two pennant winners met after the end of the regular season in something called the World Series (Michlich). The winner, in a best of seven series,