My Day With My Baseball Hero, Don Mattingly

[nomarmauerfan]

Well, we could do a Mattingly convention!!!

Mike

[encinorick]

Can I beat that, yeah I think I can. My son is 7 and belongs to the Encino Little League which is one of the better little leagues in Southern California. He is on an AAA team. I coach and we had a coach's meeting this Sunday with Reggie Smith who is the offical coach for the League. Reggie was in the majors for 17 years and was a 7 time All-Star and is one the greatest switch-hitters of all time.

For 2 hours he taught us old farts how to throw, hit and field properly. But the best, the very best part of this is that on March 9th he will spend 2 hours with our team, the A's, teaching our AAA team the basics. In other words, he will spend time with my son teaching him how to hit, throw and field.

Gentlemen, it doesn't get any better than that.