Any competitive sport takes practice and experience to play. Although some people are born with the coordination that gives them a little head start, all who attempt to pursue a sport must devote ample time to it. The introduction to a sport starts as a child growing up- a mentor introduces a new ball to a curious kid and shows what to do with it, or perhaps local childhood buddies playing ball in the street or at a park, maybe even in a back yard. Young players most often play the games in a crude way. The children personalize the game to their preferences, cutting out the technical rules and leaving only what they desire to make the game as fun as they see possible. However, a love for a sport or a first experience in one may be discovered simply by "playing catch," if the game has any relation to that. However a child discovers a game, one either has an instant love for the game or a natural dislike for way the game is arranged. If love at first sight, the child has discovered something that will indirectly affect his or her childhood development.
             As a child I loved several popular sports: football, baseball, and soccer. I loved these sports because I was good at them. That is the hidden reason why everyone loves the sport he or she plays. If you are not naturally good at the sport, you do not form an immediate interest. I do not know which sport I discovered first, but I was drawn close to football by watching it on television with my dad. He loved it, and since he was the one I looked up to, of course I loved it too. With baseball, my dad and I used to throw the ball in the yard, which led me to play ball in an organized league.
             I first started playing organized baseball when I was six years old and continued to play every year until I was eighteen. I started in the base-league called Peanuts. I learned a lot of the techniques that were important to my future in baseball that first year, and bu...