| THE PASSION OF BASEBALLÂ What is | | | | 30's and this team was in their 40's. Well I catch |
| something you are passionate about? Passion is | | | | myself thinking now wouldn't it be cool to be |
| contagious and feed off this positive energy. Have | | | | playing ball in our 50's like these guys are. |
| you ever seen two people who truly love the | | | | Every year this team beat us. We never beat |
| game of baseball talk about baseball? | | | | them. It had almost become an obsession for me |
| I had a friend's wife tell me once that we can | | | | to beat them. This year we finally did. After the |
| remember every play in a game we watched or | | | | game I was talking to their captain and kidded him |
| played in but why is it that we can not remember | | | | that now I can die in peace. He replied by saying |
| a simple grocery list that is given to us. Some of | | | | that it has been true joy playing us these past |
| us can recite stats for their teams 50 years ago. | | | | years because he can tell we loved the game and |
| We can tell who played in what World Series and | | | | played like it. |
| who the winning pitcher was and who hit the | | | | Why do a bunch of "old" people continue to play |
| game winning homerun, off of whom and what | | | | the game of softball? I truly believe that we can |
| pitch. Why is that? | | | | not give up the love of baseball and the passion |
| A lot of my childhood memories are tied to | | | | we have for it. It is part of us and it has shaped |
| baseball. I remember spending hours hitting a rock | | | | who we are. If you looked at each one of us in |
| in front of my house pretending to be my idol | | | | our profession or home life, the way we live our |
| Rod Carew. I used to mimic his stance and his | | | | lives are similar to how we play the game. Getting |
| loose wrists. I wanted to be just like him. I made | | | | back to the earlier question on why is it that |
| myself into a switch hitter because of him. As I | | | | some people can recite stats or remember every |
| grew older the demise of my professional career | | | | play in a game? It's the love we have for the |
| was that I could not hit the breaking ball. I could | | | | game of baseball. The passion and the love for |
| sit on that fastball and hit it out of the park but | | | | the game helps define who some of us are. Find |
| as soon as they took something off or put a | | | | your passion and share it with the world and |
| break on it I could not hit it. So there went my | | | | make each one of us that much better for |
| dream of a professional career but not my | | | | knowing you. This article was written by Isaac |
| passion for the game. | | | | Kama - A True Baseball Lover |
| I have been playing softball for the past 10 years. | | | | To subscribe to Baseball's Pride and Joy and |
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| played for the same amount of time. I remember | | | | now. |
| saying to myself that wouldn't it be cool if all of | | | | If you could not click on the link then copy and |
| us can be playing together like this other team | | | | paste the url into your browser. |
| when we are 40 something. We were all in our | | | | |