The topic of my zine is baseball. Baseball has always been a passion of mine and it’s a game that I find very interesting. I have been playing baseball since I was in the 6th grade and I’m currently playing for the club team here at Longwood. I gathered most of the information for my zine from my own personal knowledge of the game. Most of it is about the fundamentals of each position on the field and the game in general. The cover of my zine was hand drawn and I had to restart about fifteen times before I thought it was good enough. I am not an artist by any means, so I’m actually surprised at how it turned out.

My zine is split up by the positions on the field catcher, pitcher, 1st base, 2nd base, short stop, 3rd base, left field, center field, and right field. I have played a majority of these positions throughout my time of playing baseball and have a good idea of the roles of each of them. I did have to look up a few of them as the depth of the roles is much deeper than it may seem.

When it came to making the cover, I had used roughly fifteen pieces of paper while working on the sketch. Once I had one that I felt was a good enough drawing I had traced it onto the paper. For the letters I had to look up how to write in bubble letters and tried to get the spacing between each letter as even as possible. The cover is not complete yet and I will probably add some color and maybe trace over everything with a marker or pen.  The process of creating this cover and the zine in general has been a fun experience and I hope that mine will give someone more knowledge on the sport