Write On: Softball by Rebecca Wensloff

Essay by: Rebecca Wensloff

Roseau Community School

Mrs. Didrikson, College Writing 1101 I’ve been around the ball diamonds since I was in the womb. It was either going to support my dad while he was coaching, or being drug along to every single one of my siblings' games. I’m not sure what sparked my love for the game, but all those concession stand hotdogs my mom digested while she was pregnant with me may have fueled it.

I started playing T-ball as soon as I was old enough to be on the team. One of my favorite stories from my T-ball days is when Lauren Hedlund and I used to stand in the outfi...