Jimmy loved baseball as a kid, and he always dreamed of making it to the Major League Baseball and playing in the superlatives filled with spectators. However, his father did not support him playing baseball. Not only did he not come to watch him play, but he did not even receive a word of praise from his father after winning the game. My father believes that "there are more important things in life than baseball", and that his dream is "one thing to think, but another to accomplish", which is not realistic.
After the Jimmy family moved to a small town in Texas, they lived the same life as everyone else in town. He grew up in a small town, got married and had children. He became a high school chemistry teacher and part-time baseball sports coach. He obviously did not give up his love of pitching, and how many nights he insisted on pitching in the playground alone. But that's just a hobby, and he's also in his thirties—a great age to play baseball. Everything seemed unremarkable and unpredictable.
Until one day, he was found by a student throwing the ball, he showed his hand to the student, and the student was in awe. He excitedly told his wife about pitching, forgetting the pain in his arm, and the spark of his dream began to ignite at this moment. The later storyline is also very simple, with the encouragement of his students and his wife, he participated in the tryouts, then the minor leagues, and then finally was selected for the majors.
The story is simple, yet warm and inspiring. Ordinary families are not wealthy. On the one hand, Jimmy needs to work to earn money to support his family, but on the other hand, he can't bear to give up his newly inspired major league dream. Faced with these two difficult choices, when he asked his father for his advice, his father still said, "Thinking is one thing, but doing it is another." He was extremely disappointed. When he got home, at first his wife thought that he should think about his family, and earning money to support his family was the reality. However, when the wife saw their cute eight-year-old son who was sleeping, and saw the posters of his father playing baseball in his son's room, she didn't want to disappoint her son, "the eight-year-old son watched his father work hard every day. Practice pitching, but you suddenly give up, how do you explain it to him?". So, his wife supported Jimmy to continue pursuing his dreams.
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