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Message: [QUOTE="hagbard, post: 4728169, member: 3378"] Babe Ruth baseball - coach was the middle-aged son of a very prominent family in a very small town. Overweight, alcoholic, but had a cup of coffee in single A baseball in his glory years. This was early '90s ('92-'93 i think). Over two seasons he: [LIST] [*]threw a bat at our left fielder from around third base [*]would occasionally hit dingers over our short right field fence (he was a lefty) to show us how crappy we were because we couldn't consistently do it [*]Told us he hated mental errors, but could accept physical errors - great message but he didn't actually accept physical errors [*]I took a week off to go to summer sleep over camp. He tried to talk me out of going so I wouldn't miss a game - when I refused, he [B]came to the camp, picked me up, brought me to the game, and brought me back to camp[/B] (depending on your viewpoint, this bullet might actually be a good thing, but it struck me as psychotic even back then) [*]At the end of one of our seasons, he sat us down to have a Very Important Talk where he proceeded to single out 5-6 players and tell them they were going to make very good HS players and basically that the rest of us had no future in baseball [/LIST] I played one year of JV baseball before quitting to play on the golf team for the free golf. [/QUOTE]