“I was all-state in four sports in New Jersey, but sometimes I couldn't get served at a restaurant two blocks from my high school. There were no job opportunities then... the only thing a black youth could aspire to be was a bellboy or a pullman or an elevator operator, or, maybe, a teacher. There was a time when all we had was black baseball.” TwoSometimesStatesSchoolJobsOpportunitySportsBlackTeacherFourYouthHigh SchoolBaseballBlockRestaurantsAspireJerseyNew JerseyElevatorsOperatorsAll StateJob OpportunitiesBlack Youth Author:Monte Irvin
“I've been able to dine with presidents, with leaders of corporations, traveled for 14 years with (financier and philanthropist) Michael Milken, who has taught me so much about life. Hanging around with them, it's nothing I could have believed in grade school. I could be with all of them? Milton Berle, Don Rickles, Dean Martin ... this former third-string pitcher from the Norristown High baseball team and the son of an Italian immigrant? I really am in awe when I think that has happened to me. What a life.” ThinkingYearsAbleSchoolPresidentLeaderHappenedTeamTaughtSonBaseballThirdsFormerCorporationsAweGradesImmigrantsStringsItalianTraveledPitcherDeanPhilanthropistMiltonHanging AroundDineGrades In SchoolFinanciersBaseball Team Author:Tommy Lasorda
“I grew up in Arkansas and that's the law. My dad was a high school basketball coach, so I was raised as a coach's son and I was a baseball player back in Arkansas, and I lived in Texas, too, so I was just surrounded by sports. So that's what I was going to do: Pitch for the St Louis Cardinals. I had no idea I was going to be an actor. So I got my collar bone broken in the Kansas City Royals training camp. And once I got hurt I started doing other things for a while.” IdeasSchoolLawActorsSportsHurtCitiesPlayerSonBrokenGrewDadBasketballGrew UpTrainingHigh SchoolBaseballRaisedMy DadBonesCoachesNo IdeaTexasCampsRoyalCollarsCardinalsBaseball PlayerKansasBasketball CoachArkansasKansas CityGot HurtTraining Camp Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“I don't know what drives me to succeed. I know I want to always do the best I can.I guess I was maybe in little league baseball as far as I wanted to be good at that. But school, I certainly wasn't the best at that.” KnowsWantLittlesI CanWantedSchoolSucceedBaseballBe GoodLeagueDo The BestLittle LeagueLittle League Baseball Author:Adam Sandler
“Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy, but they don't have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can't stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there's too much stimulation.” PeopleChildrenKidsSchoolGamesToo MuchEmotionalNormalEmpathyBaseballMental HealthIncrediblesAutismSensoryAutisticStimulationBaseball GamesOverloadCafeteriaMeltdownsInformation OverloadLack Of EmpathyNo EmpathySchool Cafeteria Author:Temple Grandin
“I played baseball growing up, second base, and then when I got to high school,it just didnt exist there.” SchoolGrowing UpGrowingHigh SchoolBaseball Author:Finn Wittrock
“I was a baseball player at North Central High School in Spokane, Washington even though I was all-city in basketball, even when I signed a letter of intent to play quarterback at Washington State.” StatesPlaySchoolCitiesPlayerBasketballHigh SchoolLettersBaseballQuarterbackBaseball PlayerWashington State Author:Ryne Sandberg
“Since I was in high school, I wanted to play professional football and professional baseball, be a two-sport star.” TwoPlayWantedSchoolStarsSportsFootballHigh SchoolBaseballSports Stars Author:Russell Wilson