The Life of a Baseball Player By Matt Richard

For athletes that play baseball for a career, baseball is a job. The better the athlete preforms, the better the athlete gets paid. The players best interest is to perform at his highest level to keep bringing in the big checks. The best way for them to do that is to work hard at practice, in the weight room, and spend lots of time before and after practice working on the things they need to get better at.

The life of an athlete isn't everything it's cracked up to be. Athletes have to spend large amounts on the road traveling to away games. While the players are on the road traveling, they have to spend time away from their families. Players a lot of times have to face the problem of being home sick and still have to keep their minds on the game of baseball.

Baseball is a sport that players have to have a passion for or other wise they won't make it in the baseball business. Baseball is a year round sport. Taking a break from the game may cause a player to get rusty. The last thing an athlete or a competitor wants to do is lose his competitive edge. Year after year they strive to get better to work their way to the top.

Baseball is a business that some athletes can't handle. Its a lot of hard work and full of variables that athletes have to dedicate themselves to. There are sacrifices that have to be made in order to have a long and successful carreer as a major league baseball player.

Difficulty of Hitting By Matt Richard

Hitting a baseball consists of a hitter swinging a bat at the right time, at the right level to hit a baseball traveling at 90+ MPH. That's no mentioning that pitchers also have curve balls, sliders, changeups, split finger, knuckle ball, and palm ball are all pitches that a pitcher might have to throw at a hitter.

Hitting a baseball has been proven to be the hardest thing to do in sports. It take a lot of time hitting in the batting cages trying to perfect a swing to be successful at the plate. Not just anyone can be successful at hitting. Even with years of practice, some players never master the art of hitting.

In order to hit a baseball, the hitter has to hit a round ball with a round bat. Baseball is a complicated game with a lot of small variables. With the ball traveling at high speeds and sometimes even a breaking ball. The slightest mistake will case a hitter to get out or maybe even swing and miss.

The most successful hitters are the ones with the best hand eye coordination. It takes lots of hand eye coordination to hit a moving object from close range. This is why hitting a baseball is the hardest thing to do in all of sports.