Little League:

 One of my favorite times of the year when we have the Little League world series. We have watched it from regionals to now the finals. It brings back fond memories from when I managed a LL team from  T-Ball to the regular league teams. We never had a team that was good enough to make regionals mainly because I stressed team play and just having fun over winning.  We wanted to win but having fun playing baseball was more important than winning. Most coaches were win at all costs but I thought that taught young boys the wrong principals. 

My goal was to have boys that learned to have confidence in themselves, learn new skills and gain proficiency's they didn't have before. Also that team play was more important than the individual. Based on those principals we usually won most of our games. Some of the boys didn't have a father in their lives and I hoped to send them forward with those traits to help them have a better chance in life beyond.