Yesterday we had our scrimmage for the 2014 season. I paused a bit to think back about what I've been a part of as a baseball coach. This is my 22nd year as the Varsity Head coach out of a total of 29 years coaching baseball at the high school level. I wonder if I've stayed around because no one else was available to coach.
I was blessed to start my coaching career while trying to play at the College of the Sequoias. I had trouble hitting the college curveball, so our coach, Bert Holt, put be in the"lineup" as the 1st base coach. I got to be in the game instead of sitting. Icame to enjoy coaching first base. I was blessed to play for Bert, enshrined in the California Junior College Hall of Fame; Pete Beiden, College Baseball Hall of Fame; Ray Strable; Manny Kouklis; and other great coaches. Maybe with this lineage and a love of baseball meant I was to be a coach. I don't know, but with the patience of Maureen I'm still coaching.
Though we aren't supposed to keep score in a scrimmage, we scored more runs. Our pitching did well and for now we are feeling good about ourselves. Starting 1 March the games start counting and we'll see where we really are.
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