Take this for what the value is for you.
The game (baseball) gives me the chance of most young players can never experience. It challenged me in a way that I would be grateful for forever. It helps develop my side that I might not have without it.
After spending most of my life until this point played and taught “games”, I felt I could say for sure that it was really just a game.
The scoreboard is a focus at this time but in the end there will always be much more than that.
• Lessons from every moment of failure.
• Lessons from learning how to be a great teammate.
• Lessons from learning how important preparation.
• Lessons from learning how to control your emotions.
• Lessons from learning how to realize what is happening around you.
• Lessons from recognizing personal and team weaknesses.
• Lessons from being able to work with and through physical pain and discomfort.
• Lessons from being humble constantly.
• Lessons of responsibility and accountability.
Playing games is fun but in the end uses the game to make us become more prepared to live far from the game far greater than the game.