I roped Rick into assistant coaching Truman’s T-ball team this year. This is Truman’s second year to play, and his third season. There are two leagues here in Homewood – the tough-as-nails Patriot League and the “more laid back” Joy League. (The name alone sort of brings to mind coaches tossing daisies on the field and singing Kumbaya between innings. I dig that.)
When Truman began T-ball, he barely knew what the game was about so we figured the Joy League was the way to go. He was grouped with a team of like-minded kids who spent much of the game …read more

There is a story apparently circulating around where a coach for a kids baseball team paid a player to injure a 9 year old autistic boy. The coach wanted the boy injured and out of the game because he wasn’t playing as well as the rest of the kids on the team and it was right in the middle of a playoff game.
This happened back in June of 2005 but the story is back out because the Judge just sentenced the coach to “consecutive six-to-36-month sentences for corruption of minors and criminal solicitation to commit simple assault.”
I know …read more