From the time they are “knee-high to a grasshopper”, young boys start day-dreaming about hitting that dramatic walk-off homer to win the game, playoffs or, even better yet, the World Series. If it isn’t the a homerun, it’s a Doug Flutie “Hail Mary” type pass to win the game in the last seconds, or hitting nothing but net from half-court as time runs out. We love the thought of being the hero that everyone cheers for.
In my youth, I spent many hour in the dry corrals on our dairy, throwing a baseball in the air and hitting it on the way down.