Elijah and Jackson are two friends in Ekipe village, they're both in 5th grade. These two kids have absolute cannons. Since we don't have baseball gloves or helmets it's a little too dangerous to play with real baseballs, so we make do with tennis balls. In one recent game I had these two face off as the starting pitchers for their teams. I played catcher and umpire because none of the other kids were willing to catch the tennis balls because they were throwing too hard. One pitch nearly broke my finger (it's still sore a week later) and all I could think was "imagine if these kids were throwing real baseballs from real mounds." After three innings I had to switch pitchers because only one person on either team had gotten a single hit, and only a few even made contact. While in a real game this would be great, when you're trying to teach kids how to play, it'd be nice if they actually have a chance to hit the ball.
Jackson
-written by Javier Alaniz
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