The year was 1998, and it was my senior year at Joshua High School. We did not have any standout superstars on our team that could anchor us. Therefore, we had to work as hard as we could as a team or a unit in order to win any ballgames. Definitely, the task-oriented member of our family was our head coach, James Paul. He was the person who gave us the belief that we can win, and that we can compete with the teams that are filled with studs. He not only taught be to be disciplined on the baseball field, bit he taught me how to be a man and rise to any challenge that I was faced with. That is a lesson that will stick with me for the rest of my life. My assistant coach, Greg Dickerman, hands down, had to be the social-emotional leader of our team. When we were down as a team, he would be the one to keep our heads up. When we were down individually, such as, if we were in a slump, or just were not playing well, he would take time out of h

I feel that I was a mix between the coordinator and the mediator. I felt like I was a leader, not just for the younger players, but for the older players as well. I was the one who helped smooth out the conflicts that people had with each other. One thing I always say is “it’s hard to kick the other teams ass when you’re wanting to kick each other’s ass”. We didn’t have too many problems with that, but when we did, I am sure to be the one to settle it. Towards the end of the year, we were all like brothers. We had team unity both on and off the field.

is day to take us out to eat, or to a Ranger game to talk to you on a personal level. He let you know how good you are and how good you will be if you just believe in yourself. That is the key to being good, believing that you are good in baseball and in life. Our catcher, Justin Tennery, was definitely the take charge guy, the one who thinks that he is the only one with any ability. Don’t get me wrong, he was good, but he could have a lot better if he did not think he was the best. Maybe, he could have work a little harder to get a little bit better. At the same time, he was also the traveler. Justin was always worring about what the softball team was doing. Whether they were looking at him or talking about him is what he was interested in instead of concentrating on the task at hand. The task at hand was the quest to make it to the playoffs. Joshua had not been to the playoffs in 59 years. This year was not supposed to be any different,

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Jason Ratcliff, Jason Miller, Justin Tennery, Greg Dickerman, James Paul, Joshua School, Sports SUBCULTURE, baseball life, valuable player, task hand, playoffs 59, hated wrong, team family,