I am on the Baruch College Varsity baseball team.  I came into Baruch College knowing I was already on the baseball team here.  I had a meeting with Coach Torres in October of my junior year of high school.  At the time, Baruch wasn’t my number 1 choice, but coach said I had a lot of talent and he liked me and he said if I did come to Baruch, I had a spot on the team.  I am one of 6 freshman on the team.  We have been practicing tuesdays, wednesdays, and thursdays for the past three weeks. We have a game this saturday also.  But after saturday, the fall season ends and NCAA (national college athletics association) prohibits us from having any team activities until exactly one month before the first game of the season in the spring.  I have made a lot of friends on the baseball team, and going to practice is definitely something I look forward to.

I have been playing baseball since I was 4 years old, so practically my whole life.  A lot of my closest friends are baseball players who I have played with throughout my career.  I knew I wanted to play baseball in college so the fact that I had a guaranteed spot on the team here had a big impact on me deciding to come.  As you can see, I wear number 44.  Now this was definitely not my first choice.  My whole life I have been either 2 or 23, 23 being my all time favorite.  And I am lucky because the guy who wears 23 now is a senior, so next year I will happily hand off 44 to one of the freshman and take 23 for myself.  Most people choose their number because it’s their birthday or it means something to them.  However, I just think 23 looks really good on a uniform so i have always chose that number.  We play our home games at MCU Park in Coney Island, so if any of you are baseball fans you can hop on the train and come see us play!