MOORMANISM #4, 11-11-71
Dear Editor:
One of the reasons that we fail to produce good baseball teams is because of grade school softball.
Another reason is that kids in the grades ought to run more track.
Fifteen minutes a day of pitch or catch with the baseball would make a big difference in our baseball teams.
But some teachers say that it’s too dangerous. Teachers, I think, in the grades are failing kids when they let them “goof off” in a softball game. It ruins their baseball.
If kids do not run in the grades, I feel many just plain quit all sports and that one or two extra men can make the difference in high school teams.
A kid that has played too much softball I feel is as difficult to produce a first class baseball player out of as it would be for a dirt dobber to build a nest the size of an ice box. Even if he can run and throw.
Anyone that wants to discuss softball, I will discuss it with you. I feel we have never needed little league softball.
Ira E. Moorman
Hank truly hated softball. He even mentioned Little League softball. Funny, he’s right, we never have had Little League softball.
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