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Diary of a Mad Manager; How I went nuts coaching my son's Little League team
From: The Washington Post
Date: 19880703
Author:Jack McCallum
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed. -Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
MARCH 24 MIDNIGHT. I CAN'T SLEEP. EARLIER THIS EVENING I OFFICIALLY BEGAN MY duties as manager of a Minor Division (8- and 9-year-olds) Little League team.
Job obligations had prevented me from attending the tryout session the day before, so I went into this evening's draft ignorant of every snot-nose Seaver and pre-pubescent Pena save my own son, Jamie. I hadn't realized that the other managers would arrive with pages of detailed notes, as coldly efficient as a major-league scouting combine. I ...
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