Teaching Baseball Character:
Use the Game As Our Vehicle

Use the game of baseball as your vehicle to shed light on great examples of good virtues by your players, parents and opponents.

One year Tommy came out for the freshman baseball team. Tommy was socially a little nerdy, and did not fit in well, but had a linebackers body.

The jocks on campus would not have anything to do with him. He was a real square always getting picked on and teased around school. Tommy was very green and crude baseball wise. He could not catch or throw well at all. He was aggressive swinging the bat but made little contact.

It was a little scary when he played catch since he struggled catching the ball.

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I didn’t have the heart to cut him so he made the team. I got all the players on our high school team together one day when Tommy was not there.

I told them that Tommy gets piled-on every day at school. Someone even urinated in his locker one day.

We are not going to have any part in that. Further more, you are his angels. You are going to look after him.

We have fifty baseball player student athletes as Tommys’ Big Brothers on campus. We are his protectors, companions, buddy, teammate and good baseball charcter examples.

In the preseason Tommy got to pinch hit. Everyone was on the top step rooting for him. When he came around to score all the guys were doing high fives and cheering for him.

The grin Tommys had on his face was priceless. He was beaming.

Look for lifelong teaching moments. Baseball is the Vehicle for teaching more than the game.

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