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Growing up, I played softball and I was a cheerleader.

I played softball. I was on an all-star team. I traveled with the team. I loved it.

I had a great time with baseball growing up. I was lucky to grow up with it and to learn.

Softball has given me so much in life. It's taught me the kind of person I want to be, and given me a sweet sisterhood. It even led me to my husband.

I grew up on the softball field. Every day I would take my glove and my bat with me.

My dad was my coach in baseball and early on in basketball, so playing baseball was something we always did.

I was born to play baseball.

I was a ballplayer, but only for a limited time. I grew up playing in Wisconsin. It's a very sports-centric part of the country that I grew up in and I played a lot of sports, but baseball first and foremost. I played through high school. I was a middle-infielder.

As a youngster, I played in Little League, Pony League, and all sorts of amateur baseball programs growing up.

I wanted to play baseball ever since I was 5 years old.