The NABF is a community of coaches from little ones to pro's, sports parents of all stripes, youth and high school baseball leaders, baseball umpire experts, and thousands of others who want youth to get the most out of baseball.
The NABF is a community of coaches from little ones to pro's, sports parents of all stripes, youth and high school baseball leaders, baseball umpire experts, and thousands of others who want youth to get the most out of baseball.
I fear that one of the reasons for the waning popularity of baseball in American culture is not because the game has changed, but because we have changed. It takes time and patience to understand the game of baseball, and becoming a proficient player is difficult—very difficult. Natural physical gifting and innate athleticism are not predictors of baseball success. In fact, the baseball Hall of Fame extols the virtues of the game's greatest players, and the shocking reality is not the amazing size, strength, and speed of the game's heroes, but the almost comical diversity of body type and physical ability. The game's greatest players have been tall and short, skinny and fat, slow and fast, muscular and flabby, intelligent, and well, not so intelligent. But, they all have one thing in common; every one of them developed the emotional capacity to persevere in the face of frequent, chronic failure and occasional humiliation.
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