I can be center field by John Fogarty.

And to end the show today, we'll mark Major League Baseball's opening day with a sports writer and a pediatrician who've co-authored a book for parents and kids.

And a question for you, listeners, have lessons from your sport ever inform more serious things in your life or a way for you to teach a life lesson to a kid.

Again, have lessons from your sport, ever inform more serious things in your life or a way for

you to teach a life lesson to a kid.

212-433, WNYC, call or text, 212, 433-9-6-92.

Our guests are longtime New York sports writer Ken Davidoff and Dr. Harley-Rotbart,

pediatrician, and a middle and high school coach on their new book,

101 lessons from the dugout, what baseball and softball can teach us about the game of life. It's also got a

forward by former New York Mets great, David Wright. And listeners, don't tell Ken, but there may be a

question before the end of this segment about the Mets and the Yankees here on opening day.

Ken and Dr. Ropart, congratulations on the book. Welcome to WNYC.

Thank you. Thanks for having us.

So Dr. Ropart, I see this is Ken's first book, but you've written many previous books like

No Regrets, Parenting, Germ Proof Your Kids, and 940 Saturdays. What made you want to team up

with a sports writer? Legitimacy. Ken, Ken has brought to this book project, which really I started 15 years ago,

Ken has brought a street cred and a dugout cred to the book and a professionalism that being on dirt fields with kids for 10 years could never

have brought for me. So I am grateful to Ken for upping my game.

A doctor tells a sports writer that he adds legitimacy. that's a new one.

But Ken, I'll let you model this for our callers with a really easy example from the book.

Lesson number 19, the sacrifice.

And for people who don't know, that's a play in baseball where a batter intentionally makes an out for himself to help a teammate move up a base.

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