Jan 28, 2018 | Diamond Devotions
Baseball is a liar. It gives rewards too quickly to the players who are simply bigger and stronger at an early age. And it causes some to believe they will never amount to anything. In truth, long term success in this great game isn’t based on early indications,...
Nov 29, 2017 | Diamond Devotions
“You know what’s expected of you. Do the right thing, no matter what everyone else is doing.” My son and I have had that conversation over and over. We have it–and will keep having it–because human nature simply doesn’t tend toward...
Aug 29, 2017 | Diamond Devotions
What makes a coach or father happy? When their players and sons do what is right, even when no one is looking, even when they have nothing to gain from it. It doesn’t mean anything, really, when a player does what the coach tells him to do when the coach is...
Feb 2, 2017 | Diamond Devotions
Outfield play is so underrated. Often, games are won or lost, runs given up or prevented, based on the proficiency (or lack thereof) of the outfielders. That fly ball that fell in just out of his reach. That ball scorched into the gap that was cut off before the...
Oct 29, 2015 | Diamond Devotions
“You’re the best on the team, Benny.” It wasn’t close. Benny “The Jet” Rodriguez, he of “Sandlot” fame, was by far the best player of his rag-tag bunch of baseball-loving neighborhood kids. He went on to a Major League...
