Baseball has been a part of me for a while now. I've been doing something baseball related every week for the last few years. It's really changed what I like to do in my free time and it's also changed my priorities. This was the first sport I was going to play and I haven't played a different sport since I started playing baseball. There were and still are so many ways baseball changed my life. I started playing baseball right after I moved to Virginia from California. I wasn't that good at first, because I was only six years old at the time, but that was okay, because the other six year olds weren't much better than me. It was my first time playing a sport, and later in the years it turned out to be my only sport. Just when I realized it was important for me to not just play for fun, I started playing video games less and playing baseball more. practices. My father always told me that it's no good to play video games, because they can't help you, but baseball can help you succeed in life. This has really changed my opinion on what baseball potentially has. I became more dedicated and committed to the sport, baseball. I never played any other sport and every year I started playing more and more baseball. I've tried my best to keep playing baseball, because it's going to end eventually, but I hope it comes later in my life instead of earlier. Baseball became more important to me than video games, and that's still the case today. I still struggle to achieve more in baseball, and hoping to maintain my dreams, I also decided to continue playing, as many people quit, and I continued to try harder in baseball, and instead of giving up; to go further and continue to go further in sport. It changed what I do after school, it also made me think about what I like to do in my free time, what I should do in my free time. Now I play baseball whenever I have free time, which helps me achieve my overall goal of playing the sport. It used to be for fun, but now I'm trying to go beyond just having fun in this sport. I had to do a lot of things to get to where I am, but I don't want to finish yet, I want to carry on throughout my life and continue to be successful. “Baseball is a good thing. Always has been, always will be." – Stephen