Little League

I spent an hour at the little league football field this weekend watching our friends sons play. Many of these little guys are not much bigger than the ball they were using. A couple of the players ran for a lot of yards and a touchdown. There was a nice pass and an even better catch. As I watched the game, I wondered which, if any, of these kids will play on a big stage some day. If they do, and even if they do not, they can always look back at their childhood and that short football field in their small hometown. They can look back and get a glimpse of a game that helped shape their lives. There have been many young men and women who have gone on to play a professional sport who came from smaller towns than this, including a Cy Young Award winner in baseball. They needed a little more than average talent and a whole lot of work ethic. But they made it. Pat Williams recalled in his book titled The Warrior Within, that his dad took him to a major league baseball game when he was seven years old. He wrote that that particular day set the course of his adult life. His dad was also his first coach. Today's Winning Thought: "If you are a father, then you had better be a hands-on father. No other goal or obligation in your life even comes close." -- Pat Williams