About John Wilson

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Hello, my name is John Wilson, and I write the JohnSports15 blog to help people to better understand the game of baseball as well as learn more about this fantastic sport.

I grew up in a town called Mundelein, in the state of Illinois. Around the age of six, I found my interest in baseball when I decided to join the little league with some encouragement from my dad. By this point I was already playing two other sports, soccer, and basketball. After two more years of playing all three sports, I dropped soccer and basketball to continue playing baseball, which I found much more enjoyable. I continued to play baseball until my junior year of high school when covid hit and it shut all of our sports down and changed the rules of how we'd be playing. Playing baseball for those twelve years made me an expert on everything related to baseball. Rules, plays, strategies, I know the majority of them and still know most of them all these years later as a twenty-one-year-old. 

Along with playing baseball for as long as I did, I also watch baseball games both on tv and in person. Growing up an hour from Chicago, you either become a Cubs or Sox fan. Since my family are all Cubs fans, I became a Cubs fan too. I've been to several games at Wrigley Field and have watched countless other games on tv when they play. 

The main reason I started this blog is to further get information about baseball out there in the blogging community. Baseball holds a very special place in my heart, and it’s most definitely the favorite sport I have played. I hope after going through my blog posts you too can find a love for baseball and enjoy this fantastic sport.


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