Journal 2

My research was basically all with my coach on how much more baseball can teach you as a passion. I also interviewed my dad but he never helped me out as much haha.
The basic overall question I asked my coach was what more can baseball teaches you other than just playin the game? This was a basic overall response

He said it teaches you TEAMWORK, HARDWORK and RESPONSIBILITY.
Baseball teaches you teamwork because you need to work in a group to get this job done which is winning the game. With one person you cannot win a state championship he says that 24 guys have to work hard for one goal and that is to win the state championship. You can’t work as an individual you have to work as a team.

Baseball teaches you hard work because constant hard work and repetition will give you better and a somewhat quicker result.

Baseball teaches you responsibility because playing in this program you have to balance your life just like how it would work in real life. You have to manage your life with school, your family and baseball. The management skills come in because if you don’t balance these three things then something will suffer. If you focus only on baseball then your school might suffer. And if you only focus on school then you might not be playing as much in baseball.

Baseball also teaches you sacrifice. You have to sacrifice your ego for the team. You can’t be the ‘I’ guy because you as an individual won’t win the game. But if you sacrifice your self as an individual to maybe lay the bunt down to move the guy over to scoring position for the winning run, then if that run scores, your team will be recognized as a whole. In life you have to sacrifice, to be successful in baseball you have to sacrifice. You need to chose between yourself or a state championship.