Is it really that hard?
Sandlot 2, the biggest softball vs. baseball challenge of all time. As the Sandlot boys arrive at their usual playing spot. Surprised, they to witness three girls on their dirt. It is hard enough to deal with intruders, but girls make it worse. To get these girls to stop practice their softball and leave, the girls make a bet. Softball pitcher, Hayley Goodfairer, challenges baseball player, David Durgano, saying she can strike out him out with three pitches. Winner takes the sandlot; losers leave. Accepting the challenge, David faces an under hand softball windmill for the first time. Foul ball after foul ball, both call it a draw. There is no winner and no loser. This is an accurate symbolization that proves that neither sport is harder or easier than the other.
Softball and baseball, in general, are too different to be compared on their difficulties. Baseball players can’t hit a softball pitch effectively because they have never seen that kind of pitching before. This is equivalent to a professional badminton player to step onto a tennis court. Though these sports are very similar with the same kind of big idea, they are very different. With tennis, the net is low to the ground and the court is bigger. In badminton, the net is high and the court in shorter. Badminton players must focus on the speed and spin of the birdie, tennis focuses on power and timing of the ball.
These two sports can easily compare in how important placing the ball is. The key for success in these sports is to hit the ball where the other player is not. To say one is harder than the other is unreasonable. Softball and baseball focus on different aspects as well, especially in hitting. Yes, a softball pitch has less reaction time to the ball, and yes, the angle is more difficult to hit affectively, but we can’t conclude this statement if a baseball player hasn’t practiced softball the same amount of time.
If a badminton player has played tennis for the same amount of time, we could see what sport that player has more success with. This can give a better measure for what sport has more difficulties than the other. The same concept applies to softball and baseball. There are little or no baseball players that also play fast pitch baseball. If there were any that did, there is no analysis on them. Overall, saying one sport is harder than the other is too broad of a statement.
Works Citied
H. (2014). Difference Between Tennis and Badminton. Retrieved November 23, 2016.
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“Sandlot 2, the biggest softball vs. baseball challenge of all time.”
I feel like this could work a lot better for a narrative than it would for a written essay, primarily because I believe there needs to be more detail about “Sandlot 2,” and what made it so big.
“Softball pitcher, Hayley Goodfairer, challenges, baseball player, David Durgano, saying she can strike out him out with three pitches.”
Small errors here besides the brisk pace you decide to use which I concede could just be a stylistic choice that fits in better with the theme of the paper. There should be no comma after the word “challenges” and I would put the word “that” after the word “saying.” “…saying that she can…”
“Softball and baseball are too different to be compared on their difficulties.”
This sentence just sounds weird to me. Being a soldier is vastly different than a desk job, but I think everyone will agree that being a soldier is much more difficult than having a desk job.
“Baseball players can’t hit a softball pitch affectively because they have never seen that kind of pitching before.”
That should be “effectively.” Affect is used as a verb, effect is usually a noun. In your sentence the word “hit” is the verb meaning that you should be looking to use the word “effectively” (also important, affectively, affective etc. deal with emotions. I don’t know if it helps but think of the word affection.
“Though these sports are very similar with the same kind of big idea, they are very different. With tennis, the net is low to the ground and the court is bigger. In badminton, the net is high and the court in shorter.”
The second sentence is just a converse of the first one. It’s fluff and unneeded; it should be easy to deduce the second sentence and it’s presence is unnecessary.
“Though, badminton players must focus on the speed and spin of the birdie, tennis focuses on power and timing of the ball.”
The use of the word “though” here is rather confusing and it seems to be a bit of a comfort word for you when you need a transition. In this case I think it’s perfectly acceptable to delete the word “though” and leave the rest of the sentence as is.
“These two sports can easily compare in how important placing the ball is.”
At this point you should clearly be bringing the attention back to baseball and softball, but by saying “these two sports…” right after talking about tennis and badminton is confusing and somewhat jarring. The rest of the sentence kind of smooths out my first concern, but immediately after I am once again left somewhat confused. I would re-write this with a smoother transition such as “In baseball and softball, the big differences are caused by ball placement from pitching.”
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