So happy to get on a baseball field today after the long layoff from the end of the season in the Spring. I’m an assistant in our “Majors” and I think on a team of 11 I know a bunch — some of them I had years ago and now here they are all grown up. So I...
And so it was I was in a close game and the bases were loaded and our head coach was going out to the mound to talk to the pitcher about calming down and throwing strikes and that was all fine. Then we yelled out to the first baseman to be ready for a home to first...
OK, a new thing happened. Over 25 years of coaching youth baseball and it’s really something when new things happen. I’m at practice and a player is throwing his glove up in the air. Alas, he was close to the dugout and the glove fell on the roof. Yes it did. He said,...
Well, a new season is underway and it’s way too much fun. I’m helping out with a AAA team (9, 10 and 11) and a Majors team (10, 11 12) and its really something to go from one practice / game to another and see the difference in almost real time. Kids really grow a...
And so it came to pass that before our first game, I realized I hadn’t covered warmups between innings. For pre-game warmup, we had rehearsed in practice, as I wanted it to look like we had a clue. But the pre-inning warmup is a thing I usually forget about and just...
