Wonderful piece on the North Richmond Little League
Picture from littleleague.org Tim Pearrell has a wonderful article about the North Richmond Little League and the husband and wife who run it (the Beards): This is the 74-year-old man for whom they wait — even if the field is too wet — and the man who after practice and games and rainouts piles some of them […]
Tim Pearrell has a wonderful article about the North Richmond Little League and the husband and wife who run it (the Beards):
This is the 74-year-old man for whom they wait — even if the field is too wet — and the man who after practice and games and rainouts piles some of them into his car and drives them home, knocking on doors and staying with them until he knows someone is home.
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Gaither [Beard] lines up the younger players on a bench and stresses the importance of not talking while he’s talking. “It’s not just baseball,” said Shadameen Taylor, a 14-year-old catcher who started playing four years ago. “He teaches us how to be respectful.” Without baseball, Shadameen said, he’d “probably be somewhere being bored — or doing negative things.”
While the league lags in facilities — they have to travel to all of their games as their field doesn’t meet league standards — you have to wonder if they are facing a bigger problem:
“The inner-city child seems to prefer basketball over other sports,” he said. “They’re involved in basketball all year. They don’t get a chance to find out if they’re good in other sports.”
A great article and totally worth reading.
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