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Someone recently sent a clip of a speech given by a famous baseball coach, John Skolinos,

and Skolinos had a legendary career spanning 45 years, setting a college baseball record

of 1,070 wins.

The speech was given in January 1996 to 4,000 coaches at the American Baseball Coaches

Association convention.

Skolinos at the time was 5 years retired and 78 years old.

He shuffled to the stage to an impressive standing ovation.

He was wearing a dark polyester pants and a light blue shirt and a string around his

neck from which a full size, stark white home plate, was hanging from his neck.

He never mentioned it.

He spoke for 25 minutes, not mentioning the giant home plate hanging from his neck.

Then finally, he said, you're probably all wondering why I'm wearing a home plate around

my neck.

Or maybe you think I escaped from the state hospital, he said.

The audience laughed un-easily as they inside their head were being like, ah, yeah, no,

he continued, I may be old, but I am not crazy.

The reason I stand before you today is to share with you baseball people what I've learned

in my life my 78 years.

Pauline has asked how many little league coaches were in the room, several hands went up.

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