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The Courage To Play Softball When I Was Little
The Courage to play softball when I was little

One day when I was six years old my neighbor was in Middle School and she played softball and I saw her outside throwing a yellow ball to her dad and he would catch it and then throw it back to her. I was very curious about what her and her dad were doing because I thought it looked fun, and something I would enjoy doing. So I asked my parents what she was doing. They told me she was passing softball with her dad. And I said that I wanted to do that so my parents said to me if I actually really wanted to play softball that they would sign me up so I could start playing and learn how to play early so I would know when I get older if I really like it.

After that day my parents signed me up
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I had a great time and learned new people and we really didn’t learn how to play the game of softball yet because it was only our first practice. But the coach of the team told us that the first practice of playing a sport most people on the team have never played you don’t learn how to play the entire game at once and definitely not on the first practice. The coach told the team that he wants us to get to know each other and get to know everyone and get to know little parts of the game of softball at once then he will start to teach us how the entire game of softball is played out, because at first he wants us to learn the major parts of the game like throwing and catching the ball. He also wants us to get to know the positions because he told us that the older you get you most likely will only play one position and you usually get to pick but at the young age of softball which I was at you can play anywhere because no one really understood the different positions and the purpose of any of them. He also told us about how he will teach us how to hit the ball with a bat when someone throws the ball and how you run around the bases if you hit the

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