Baseball’s back (little league)!
Style has a fantastic article about the new summer little league team over in Mosby. The team’s coach, Lawrence Day, previously a crisis counselor at John Marshall, played little league ball in Battery Park. A great story with lots of Northside mentions. The inner city, however, is different. Somewhere along the way baseball lost its place, […]
Style has a fantastic article about the new summer little league team over in Mosby. The team’s coach, Lawrence Day, previously a crisis counselor at John Marshall, played little league ball in Battery Park. A great story with lots of Northside mentions.
The inner city, however, is different. Somewhere along the way baseball lost its place, gave way to basketball and football, dreams of becoming the next Kobe, the next T.O. But there’s a buzz at Hotchkiss, an understanding that something bigger has taken hold on this particular June night.
When he received the green light to start a baseball program in the fall, Day worked the neighborhood passing out flyers, knocking on doors. It didn’t take long for Day to change his tune. He remembers telling a parent, “Other teams might have more experience than us, but we are gonna win on discipline alone.”
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