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Usually you’ll hear commentators note that pitchers are ahead of hitters in the early going, as it takes position players longer to bring their all-important batting eye into focus. The pitchers the JV baseball team faces aren’t just ahead of our hitters—they’ve already lapped them. Hitting skill can’t be recovered at will, and considering the team didn’t take its first session of batting practice until the season was already under way, it’s hardly surprising our offensive output resembled...
There are plenty of things wrong with JV baseball. There’s just enough right about it, though, to make the experience worthwhile. It sounds clichéd, but JV baseball really teaches you crucial life lessons. Where else could one perfect the essential art of covering the infield? We may not have won a lot of games, but we sure got the best of that tarpaulin. Our grounds crew experience is perhaps the one edge we hold over the varsity in baseball-related activities. The speed with which we blanketed the dirt as the raindrops began to fall...
...showcase ability, the main motivator is simply the chance to play baseball, and have fun doing it. For while bat speed and command of the strike zone may have eroded, the ability to keep things light in the dugout can still be found in plentiful supply in every JV player...
...JV baseball players learn to take the bad with the good—enduring the short season, ad hoc schedule and lack of practice time for the chance to play baseball with a group similarly passionate about the game—and have grown accustomed to the team’s uneven routine...
Actually, that’s the wrong word to use. After all, this is JV baseball—where nothing is routine...