Jan 24, 2018 | Diamond Devotions
Baseball players and coaches spend lots of time together. Baseball is like that. Practice can last for hours, much longer than basketball or football with their intense physical exertion. Since baseball is played at a different pace, both practices and games take...
Sep 25, 2017 | Diamond Devotions
I text Bubba all the time during the season. He and I were teammates and we later coached together at our alma mater. Since I moved away from my hometown years ago, Bubba is my connection to how the team is doing. I love hearing good news from Bubba. He’s with...
Aug 25, 2017 | Diamond Devotions
It was painful to watch. Rick Ankiel, the promising rookie pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, who had dominated National League hitters for much of the 2000 season, couldn’t find the strike zone. Actually, it was worse than that. He wasn’t even close....
Jan 25, 2016 | Coach's Counselor
What is the essence of leadership? What does it mean to lead players? To lead teammates? To be a team captain? To be a great coach? Here are a few types of leaders you might find on your coaching staff or team. The dictator. He is all business, all the time, whipping...
Aug 25, 2015 | Diamond Devotions
If there’s one thing I’ve learned about coaches and parents at the amateur level, many of them want to be known as something great. We try all sorts of things to accomplish this. In some cases, we name-drop, try to impress people who we believe have...
