I played and coached baseball. The misconception is that baseball is boring. Today’s game IS boring because there is no emphasis on anything more than hitting the ball very hard to your strength. The take is that baseball does not have to be boring at all. Learn just a little about the game and you’ll see the chess match between coaches, pitcher and hitter and defenses. And the OLD game was very interesting. The bunt, the hit and run, stealing bases—all things that today’s game lacks sorely. They’ve sabermetric’d all the excitement out of baseball, making it a game where fans mostly just sit in their Official Cute Cats Playing Mah Jongg shirt and wait for a home run. I’d bet that younger players have never seen a pro player execute a good push bunt. It was better and can be again. To me, I loved playing the game, but coaching it gave me a completely different thrill. Matching wits with other coaches, making critical decisions. Teaching was my strongest suit though. I love to teach and teaching the game came easy to me.

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