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BASEBALLFARMING BASEBALLFARMING AND PLAYERS GROWING IN A FIELD OF DREAMS.
Baseball history has brought us to our modern day game from the days of yore and our heroes galore. Here you will be intro.duced to some baseball lingo, many of the interesting baseball statistics, and much of the strategy and ideas leading to be.coming a winner.
BaseballFarming you will be reminded of how, each spring while growing up, you had observed the crops being planted. All summer long the crops would grow and mature until the fall and gathering of the harvest from the fields.
In the spring of the year ball players would also be found breaking out those baseball spikes, gloves, and bats, to start their summer time growing and ball playing season. All summer long these boys of summer would enjoy their baseball game out there on the ball fields. Youngsters growing up playing ball is just like with the crops growing in the fields.
Be it a crop of corn or a crop of boys they both grow in a Field Of Dreams.
The best talented and skilled ball players grow and mature they too will be picked or gathered and will become part of a professional baseball farm team somewhere across America.
Our very first experiences of playing baseball and baseball farming took place out there in our backyards and pastures or at the edge of the corn field of the neighborhood with our buddies and kinfolks.
The history of baseball is interwoven into the fabric of life of those it touches just as my About Me, Wiley B.Channell and My Family is about this country boy and which provides you an invite into my personal history.
However, for many of you like myself, your most intensive growing and learning process for playing ball took place out on the high school athletic fields and ball diamonds where you learned to love the game and all of the baseball lingo.
The local ball diamonds were the Field Of Dreams for these kids living the good life of baseball farming by playing the game from the days of little league rules to the pinnacle of success the Big Show of the Major Leagues.
Hall of Fame Coach, Oren Prentice "Piggy" Mitchell, was the gentleman coach responsible for providing the baseball savvy and playing skills at Hewitt High School of Trussville, Alabama during the 1950's.
This web site's purpose is to relate some of those personal experiences in the hopes they will add value to the experiences of youngsters who are now learning and playing the game.
The experience of learning to play baseball is akin to farming in that the crops grow and develop in the fields. While the dreams and desires of playing baseball is growing in the hearts and minds of young baseball players.
The professional baseball teams since the early days of baseball have used a "farm system" to develop their players. This playing of baseball and farming of players is for real.
Just as natural as the night following the day, this farm system or baseballfarming for growing and developing ball players is a normal part of our great game of organized professional baseball.
Many a ball player grew up, as a local baseball playing hero and legend, out there on the farms in rural America.
Growing up on the farm and later being on a professional baseballfarming farm team, while developing as a growing and more skillful player, for some of the best players was as natural as taking a sip of cool spring water.
There is an ole saying, "How are you going to keep them down on the farm?" There is real truth to this thought, for when a kid with great talent as a ball player comes along, you can bet your boots his days on the farm are numbered.
Scouts look the country over, throughout the farming system, to bring those future Hall Of Fame talented players up to the Big Show.
Their passion for the game grew stronger and stronger from these simple roots of country boys gathering on a Sunday afternoon playing their game until the sun gently and silently slipped beyond the horizon.
As the crops were growing in the fields , the boys were growing into strapping boys on their field of dreams. They loved the game and grew and matured as a baseballfarming crop of players destined for greatness..
Playing ball, growing to love and playing the game, is at it's finest hour when those boys are out there playing a simple pickup game somewhere in the neighborhood.
The back lot neighborhood pickup games is where the love of the game of baseballfarming is at it's zenith.
The development of the young men into seasoned fleet footed agile and strong rambunctious players they had a keen eye to whack that ball and a throwing arm that could fling it from deep center field to home plate cutting down the swiftest runners.
These ball playing feats were the thrill of it all. Being better than your opponent, executing play after play flawlessly, is what baseballfarming and baseball is all about.
Hey Sport grab your glove, it's game time!
Batter Up----Let's Play Ball....
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