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Personal Narrative: My First Baseball Tournament
Over the summer we went to Nashville, Memphis and Notre Dame for baseball tournaments. While at Notre Dame we visited the campus and saw touchdown Jesus while taking a tour of the football field. Also after the tour we had a game on their field, the entire field was turf. As you walked into their complex you heard the popping of the catcher’s mitt from the pitch that came in around 80 mile per hour. As well as the crack from the wood bats as the players made solid contact

For our first tournament of the year we went to Memphis, Tennessee while there we played stiff competition. It was the first time all of us as a team have really been together and we all played together well. The first game I was behind the plate the feel of the glove being

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