Tag: sports

Baseball Mystery

By John Passaro on July 24, 2018 • ( Leave a comment )

In his major league debut, Daniel Poncedeleon throws 7 innings of no-hit ball. Guess what happened next.

Wrestling Writing

By John Passaro on April 18, 2016 • ( Leave a comment )

At first, one wrestles to win championships.

Then, after many years, one realizes it wasn’t the pursuit of championships that wrestling was all about –wrestling is about preparing you for life. I owe a great deal to this sport, that is why I write about it so passionately.
This book is a compilation of all my writing on the sport.

I coach for character…

By John Passaro on December 23, 2015 • ( Leave a comment )

I am far more interested in how a young man responds to pressure or disappointment than I am in how far that he can hit a baseball.

I coach for character.

Auggie Garrido
Head Baseball Coach
Texas University

The Pursuit

By John Passaro on December 4, 2015 • ( 16 Comments )

For the longest time – I got it wrong…

I thought the ultimate achievement in wrestling was to win a State Championship…

It is not.

The ultimate achievement in wrestling is to prepare a young man for his life by having him become the best person he can be by acquiring the “Qualities of a Wrestler” while in pursuit of a state championship.

Great Coaches Change Lives

By John Passaro on February 4, 2014 • ( Leave a comment )

There is something about a high school friend that time can not tarnish.

In The Zone

By John Passaro on July 18, 2008 • ( Leave a comment )

I have often wondered why I coach baseball. Why am I so obsessed with the sport? Why do I spend an insane amount of time and money just to teach kids how to play a game? What is so special about baseball that I make it my […]