Ok what position did you play in baseball

[JohnKleeb]

I managed to play every position except catcher in my playing days but I mostly was a first baseman, third baseman(I am a lefty thrower so its weird), outfield, and pitcher. I quit after I realized I couldn't hit.

[burythehatchet]

1. SS, 2B, CF

[ScreamingMeemie]

2. Catcher and third baseman.

:hi:

[GOPisEvil]

3. 2B and 3B, mostly 2nd.

I was a good fielder, but I wasn't a good hitter.

[JohnKleeb]

7. same problem

I couldn't hit and I nearly got benched for half of a game and I was a good fielder!

[slutticus]

4. 2B

My hitting was on and off.

[stevedeshazer]

5. Left out

I was terrible. ;)

[CO Liberal]

19. Me, Too

Last one picked - usually exiled to deep right field.

Way deep right field....

[GainesT1958]

6. Left field...

They thought they could cover all my fielding errors better out there!:eyes:

B-)

[Spinzonner]

8. 1B,3B, Outfield, caught infield (but not pitchers)

Not very well

[benito]

9. spectator

[jdots]

10. never pitcher

that takes skill

[JohnKleeb]

12. I was a reliever

a closer actually, I started out as a sidearmer but then I was forced to convert to overhand in hindsight, I'd kept the sidearming for some occasion. I didn't have much pitch speciality either, I had a fastball and a change.

[wysi]

16. Unless...

... you are the coach's son. Then you get to pitch even if you suck. I should know, I spent a season catching Jamie, the coach's son. He sucked.

Our other pitcher that year was Gilles, who was terrific. A study in contrasts.

[JohnKleeb]

17. thats totally true

btw I wasn't a coach's kid, I didnt even start out as a pitcher. I got my start throwing in blowouts :).

[wysi]

20. The best pitchers were...

... it seemed, more often than not, *not* the coach's son. There were a few exceptions, but for the most part the coach seemed to act a bit like Homer keeping Bart in at QB despite Nelson's obvious talent ;-)

It was almost as though the non-coach's kids seemed to know they needed to try that extra bit harder to keep pitching and they did.

Strangely, I never played on a team where the coach *wasn't* somebody's dad (I wonder whether anyone ever did?), but I stopped playing after I was 15 (when it got more serious). Sometimes the assistants would be the coach's buddies, but the head coach was always a father of one of my teammates.

I was never very good myself... a reasonable contact hitter with a good eye but no power. No arm to speak of either.

[wysi]

11. I played...

... catcher, first, second, and third base. Never pitched, occasionally in the outfield (not often). Catcher was my favorite though. I caught during the only season I was good (when I was 12; also wore #8 that season in honor of my favorite player, Yaz, who got his 3000th hit and 400th HR the same season, 1979).

[VelmaD]

13. mostly 1B

But I started out on 2nd then graduated to 1st as I got older. Basically I was the only one on the team who wasn't afraid to let our shortstop hurl bullets at them. :-) Did a little catching as well.

I hit pretty well. I played co-ed ball and it was always fun having idiot guy outfielders scoot in closer when I got up. They never freakin' learned. Didn't matter how many times I hit one over their heads they just couldn't wrap their brains around the idea that a girl could really hit. :shrug:

[Donkeyboy75]

14. In high school

I pitched, played first and center field - in relative order of frequency (I'm a lefty).

[DAGDA56]

15. Catcher....because I could see everybody else on the field...

...it was also the best position for a kid with ADD...could throw to second from the squat, which didn't hurt.

[Birthmark]

18. Third base

And I hated it when they stomped on me on their way home!

{See? I was literally...third...base...um, bye!}

[BlueHandDuo]

21. Deep Right Field...

...way, way deep.

[JimmyJazz]

26. tell me more.....

[name not needed]

22. Second base

[Downtown Hound]

23. Catcher most of the time,

occasionally center or left field.

[Selwynn]

24. I played the - no skills so didn't make a team position... I think

..I think that's abbreviated NSSDMTP :)

[welshTerrier2]

25. shortstop ... third base ...

n/t

[Doctor_J]

27. catcher

and i have some gnarly fingers and sore knees to prove it. i once got a broken toe on a foul tip. i played before helmets, so i also got hit in the side of the head with a bat a couple times.

Yet, i still am ruggedly handsome mathemetician.

[Burma Jones]

28. Outfield

I could hit but was a mediocre fielder. Too bad Little League didn't have the DH.

[getoffmytrain]

29. Pitcher & third...

through HS.

[St. Jarvitude]

30. Second base and outfield

I used to be one of the fastest kids around, but I had a hard time with fly balls in the outfield as a kid so they moved me to second. I wore #23 (RYNO!!) and tore it up offensively and defensively.

My parents pulled me out of baseball though because they thought it was "too competitive". Maybe it was, but I know I was having fun playing.

Whenever we play softball in gym class (I'm a junior in HS now), I always, always play second and continue using my mad skills.

[Maestro]

31. Third, second and left

I can still hit a fast ball to this day but the breaking stuff screws me over.

[Redneck Socialist]

32. 2nd, pitcher and right

I liked second the best, but I wasn't very good at any of them really.

[RoyGBiv]

33. Pitcher, left field, catcher ...

I threw my arm out when I was 16, and played catcher after that. I couldn't throw anything but a straight, semi-fast ball after that, which was accurate, and that actually helped with throwing to second.