A workshop ran by Antonio D. Evans explains how the integration of baseball in his life introduced him to challenges of diversity. Yet, the game of baseball was able to teach him many things about diversity in today’s society especially because he is an African American male. He only played baseball during one of his years during high school. Mainly because he was getting involved with other bad things in his life but didn’t specifically point out what they were. It wasn’t until his assistant coach pulled him to the side one day and said, “If you took the game serious you could go places…” that he realized the potential he had within himself which then opened many opportunities for him in which resulted to him receiving a scholarship to play for a university. One thing from the workshop which stood out to me was how he referred to baseball as playing a game of life.
Baseball has always been around him in his lifestyle. Both, his mother and father played baseball so he was bound to be a baseball player.
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For example baseball is an ever changing game while playing due to the fact that there is something always happening in many different forms. What he implies through that is, “one must be able to adjust”. Just how one adjusts to the player, pitch, and hit of the ball, one must adjust to the game of life no matter what it throws at you. So when he was playing on a team where the majority where white dominant men, he adjusted to the team in which allowed him to be more successful than he would have if he didn’t adjust to playing on that team. Just like many places in the real world, it’s not a question of who you are. It’s a question of whether or not you can play, because the overall goal of joining a team to make a contribution for the better of the team. So in the end the life lesson he was implying was to keep working towards the bigger picture instead of focusing on the challenges in the