You played sandlot ball growing up, or in the schoolyard or fields back in your old neighborhood. You were one of the better players on your Little League or rec league or local age-bracket league as a kid. In high school, you had some flashes of brilliance. Maybe even dominated your league at times.
So, you’ve always thought to yourself, “I wonder if I could make it in the pros?”
I mean, okay, maybe you don’t think that you could hit big-league pitching. As Crash Davis (Kevin Costner) said in “Bull Durham“: “They throw ungodly breaking stuff in The Show.