Back in the mid 50's Joe had a full ride to a mid-western college in football. He hurt his right shoulder. The following spring he was working out with the baseball team to get back into shape. On this one day his right arm was hurting a bit so, he started warming up left handed with a friend of his (a catcher) named Frank. Frank wanted to have him throw like a pitcher, so he did. Shortly Frank was lunging all over the place to catch the ball. Soon they were laughing, when a dark shadow loomed over the two of them...the coach showed up and asked for the ball. He looked the ball over and asked Joe to show him what he had...which was, slow, slower and the slowest Junk the coach had ever seen. He sent Joe over to the batting cage to take some swings, didn't like the way he handled the bat.
The rest is history, Joe lead the team in hitting and was the closer, also played 2nd base well enough...nobody wanted 2nd base so he was dropped in that spot.
Reason for this story is simple, some have the idea sports are easy because as one looks at the pros play, it looks so easy...no, no, NO! One looks at those playing in the majors and you will see 95% of them have been playing the game as far back as 9/10 years old or younger. Being good at baseball as with any sport, starts with the music in your soul/body. Everything is 1, 2, 3, finish!
If anyone of you played to a good level, stop and think...It is a hard thing to explain, unless you can think in the abstract. Everything is done with music, even walking...you can't touch it, you don't even think about it but, it is there in everything one does!
