Intro

Have you ever enjoyed doing something so much that you wanted to do it all the time. Baseball was that thing for me. I played baseball with a passion for the game. From the time I started playing, I knew that my main goal was to play high school ball for the Lake Brantley Patriots. Lake Brantley is a school with rich baseball tradition. With multiple state titles and major league players, this school was where I wanted to go to be able to play at the next level. But, little did I know those dreams would be crushed or at least postponed until a later date. I tried out for the freshman baseball team and did not make it.
I can still remember the first time I ever step foot on the Lake Brantley baseball field. I was kind of intimidated because I had never been on a field so big before. I was there for a baseball camp to help better my game. I was ten years old at the time. I looked out and saw on the wall the two state titles, the 4 final fours, and the six major league baseball players listed on the wall beyond left field. Another thing that was kind of intimidating was the big scoreboard out over the center field wall. I had only seen scoreboards this big at major league stadiums. I thought to myself that this place is where I need to go to become the best.