Jul 30, 2014 | Coach's Counselor, Game Notes
(This post is # 2 in the series “Everything I Needed to Know I Learned from 9-year-old Baseball Players) Years ago I taught world history to high school sophomores. Nobody liked it. In fact, I don’t think high school sophomores even like themselves, but...
Jul 25, 2014 | Coach's Counselor, Game Notes
There’s an old poster I remember seeing: “Everything I Needed to Know, I Learned in Kindergarten.” As much as I want to believe that’s true, kindergarten taught me nothing about coaching 9-year-old baseball players. Playing in high school and...
Apr 18, 2013 | Diamond Devotions
My playing career ended in 1999, followed four years later by the end of my “official” coaching career. At age 26, I was “out of baseball.” Two amazing things have happened since then. First, my love for the game has grown exponentially,...