Abstract:Aim: The purpose of the study was to examine Sports Achievement Motivation of Medalist and Non-medalist baseball male players.
Methodology: The subjects were selected by using purposively sampling technique in case of medalist and randomly in case of Non-medalist baseball male players in the Panjab University Inter-College Baseball Tournament. The total number of 70 male (35 medalists and 35Non-Medalist Baseball players) took part as subjects with in the age range from 16-28 years. Standardized Questionnaire Sports Achievement Motivation test (SAM) developed by M.L. Kamlesh, 1990 was used. The t-test was applied to find out level of significance at the level of 0.05.
Results: The findings of the study revealed that there were significant differences between the Medalists and Non-Medalists baseball male players.
Conclusion: It was concluded that high sports achievement motivation is an important factor that makes a distinction with high level performance in the competition.