It Takes What It Takes

To compete at a high level on the field requires an unyielding commitment to doing things the right way, on and off the field. It isn’t easy, which is why players and teams around the country routinely do not reach their potential. Taking no shortcuts,...

The Wanderer

He could never find the right team. He became a baseball mercenary as a kid, playing for a different travel team each year, sometimes two in the same year. He went to three different high schools, always looking for greener pastures. Nothing ever seemed to satisfy...

Young Love

My first memories of baseball involve me playing what my dad and I called “tag-up,” a game in which he tossed a ball off a door at the end of the hallway and I tagged up like it was a fly ball and tried to slide safely into the base before he tagged me...

It Changes Me (Why Do We Play, part 5)

Looking back on my playing career, I realize now more than ever how much of my character was shaped by the game of baseball. Clearly, God was in control, but he used the game as part of making me more like him. It’s for those reasons I’ll never apologize...