Baseball Classification Essay

Levi Lewis
Mrs. Boresen
Expos 6th hour
Feb 2, 2009

Baseball is a very competitive sport at any level. Whether it is tee ball or right up at the major league level, everyone who plays the sport has something to offer. There are different levels that teach a player many things to make them better as they reach higher levels. Baseball teaches you many things from good social skills to making friends that you will have for life. It is a great way to get exercise and learn and enjoy America’s past time.

Tee ball is a great way for children who want to play baseball and develop social to experience. Tee ball teaches children the basic fundamentals of the game of baseball. It helps develop how to hit a ball, how to field a ball, run the bases, throw to each base, and just how to have fun. It also teaches the kids the rules of the game and usually a tee ball game is about three innings or when the kids become tired. It’s really fun to watch the kids enjoy the sport and get experience for the next level to play at. Tee ball is also a great way for a kid to make friends and socialize. It teaches how to step outside your comfort zone and learn to play with kids you don’t know. At the tee ball level, the competition isn’t as competitive as much higher levels because the kids are out there for fun.

Another level of competition in baseball is the traveling teams. This level is where you start to be competitive and continue to increase your skills. When you are on a traveling team, you get to travel and see many different teams that consist of different players with better skills. At the traveling level you get to enjoy new competition and put the skills you learned at tee ball to work and begin to play and gain experience needed for further levels in baseball. Being on a traveling team is so much fun because you get to see different places and meet new people who you could play against for life and become good friends with. You also learn the “real” rules of baseball and how the game is supposed to be played. A rec game is usually between five and six innings. It is also fun because you get to be in front of a crowd and it’s the first time you can experience butterflies in your stomach and just go out and have so much fun! Your skills increase so much and you continue to get better. Overall, at the traveling level of baseball, this is where you polish your skills and begin to become competitive.

High school and college baseball are just about one in the same. For the most part, college baseball can be more competitive and each player’s skills are just about full developed. In high school, you take all the skills you learn and perfect them for the college level. High school baseball games are played in seven innings while college games are played in nine. The rules are all the same, but the field you play on in college is much bigger and more major league like. In college baseball, you get to travel more places and see better teams and play for more championships. Overall, high school and college are similar in many ways.

Major league baseball is the ultimate goal for any player who has ever played the game. This level of being a major leaguer is where you have polished your skills in every way and made it to the very top. In major league baseball, the rules are just the same as in college and a game is nine innings. The only other difference between college and pro ball is the schedule. In pro ball, a team plays one hundred and sixty-two games! That’s about one hundred more than college. You literally play every day. In pro ball, you again meet new people and travel the US. Pro ball is much more laid back but has a much more complicated and long schedule for an individual player. A player’s day can start at about eight or nine in the morning and may get done around eleven or twelve at night. A player does this for all one hundred and sixty-two games. As you can see, pro ball is filled with a more complicated schedule.
Baseball is America’s past time and has been referred to that for centuries. The game of baseball is a great game to learn sportsmanship, social skills, and being competitive. As you can see, tee ball, rec ball, high school and college ball, and at the major league level can be very similar and the same. They all teach you great skills but all lack the level of competition, but that all comes as you get older. Baseball is a great love for many Americans and I encourage people to get out and play this great game.

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