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Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve
Not meaning any insult whatsoever, in fact quite the opposite, I thought you were much older than in your 30s. Your writing style and sense of history are much more in tune with those of my generation and the one before me. Here all this time I pictured you in your late 50s to early 60s.
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Probably because he got the same benefit we got - learning about it playing in the yard, following teams, players, getting involved. I coached a 15-17 year old team last year - I had one kid who hadn't played since he was five years old! No skills whatsoever, couldn't throw a ball from 2nd to first. By the end of the year, he had hit .200, and knocked a double over the LF head. Every guy on our team took him in. As bad as he was, it took a lot of guts for him to try it.