When I was twelve years old, I saw how fun it could be to play baseball and decided I wanted to try it for myself. My neighborhood at the time was located on the outer edge of Tucson, AZ. It was as far south as it was West and quite frankly in the middle of nowhere. My home sat near the end of a cul-de-sac that for some reason didn't have enough houses built to fill the street. This left a rather large area that I envisioned as a baseball field. I stood out there one summer and imagined the pot