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Proper Sleep Essential for Athletes, Coaches Collegiate Baseball The Voice Of Amateur Baseball Started In 1958 At The Request Of Our Nation’s Baseball Coaches Vol. 62, No. 10 Friday, May 17, 2019 $4.00 Dads Are Amazing, Powerful Force Story after story can be told of their skills. He even temporarily moved to Denver and Topeka, Kan. for two summers so Nate could incredible fathers who sacrifice play on quality baseball teams. time and money to help their Mitch, the highly successful head coach at sons chase baseball dreams. McLennan Community College in Texas for the past seven years, previously coached 22 years at Big 12 and Southeastern Conference schools. By LOU PAVLOVICH, JR. His younger brother Nate is the recruiting Editor/Collegiate Baseball coordinator at the University of Arkansas and is one of the rising young stars of coaching who also is an ACO, Tex. — Dads are the most precious elite hitting instructor. resource a son can have. This is a special Everything in their lives was made possible by story about a dad who lived his life for his W their dad who passed away from liver cancer a few two boys as they ultimately turned into magnificent weeks ago on April 4 at the age of 81. college baseball coaches and human beings. Nothing brightened up Mac’s days more than Mitch Thompson and his brother Nate were knowing Mitch and Nate were having success in reared in Goodland, Kan. with a population of about life. He was their biggest fans. 5,000. His greatest joy was baseball, and he had The heart and sole of the family was their dad legendary status in the community of Goodland, Mac who coached them in baseball throughout Kan. as he spent many years investing his time and their youth and did everything possible to fuel their efforts in the youth of this town. passion for baseball. He coached numerous years in the Goodland Little That included making 7-hour trips to different League, K18 and American Legion programs. baseball summer camps for Mitch so he could In 1980, Mac led the Goodland K18 baseball team receive great instruction. to a state championship. Other times, Mac would travel six hours or more Mac Thompson Was The Ultimate Dad so his boys could play on select teams to improve See INCREDIBLE FATHERS , Page 2 Art Of Focus Vital For Great Results In Baseball BECOMING A WORLD CLASS PERFORMER In part two of Collegiate Baseball’s special report on mastering precision focus for baseball players, Geoff Colvin answers key areas of this important topic. By LOU PAVLOVICH, JR. Editor/Collegiate Baseball (Final Of A 2-Part Series) EW YORK — What separates world-class performers from everybody else and how are they able to focus at the task Why do some Nat hand when many others can’t? These are questions many have asked for centuries, but not “people work so understood until now. Geoff Colvin, senior editor at large of Fortune magazine, spent hard and with the nearly two years researching this question. He wrote a remarkable book called Talent Is Overrated. requisite intensity? According to Colvin, the short answer to being a world-class That is a much more performer is practicing in a precision manner on a regular basis for 10,000 hours. difficult question. But the subject is obviously much more complex than that. — Geoff Colvin, author “What separates world-class performers from everybody else is a deep question,” said Colvin. CONQUERING PROBLEM OF WET FIELDS — Jesse Cuevas Talent Is Overrated “The simple answer is the thousands of hours these people was one of the elite baseball field maintenance supervisors in spend with deliberate practice. But the question underneath that is the history of the game who maintained Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha for 42 years. He explains what coaches can do to turn See BECOMING ELITE PERFORMER, Page 6 an infield swamp into a playable field. See page 11. Inside C”ollegiate Baseball Web Site: www.baseballnews.com Conquering White Line Fever Rarest Of Achievements Done Hollywood Ending For Maine Tom Hanson gives important Cortland State’s Colin BeVard hits Black Bears were 2 outs away tips on how players can rid 2 inside-the-park homers in the from losing, despite no-hitter, but themselves of this issue/Page 4 same inning during tilt/Page 12 grand slam saves the day/Page 8 Page 2 Collegiate Baseball Friday, May 17, 2019 Incredible Fathers Can Pave Collegiate Baseball The Voice Of Way For Opportunities In Life Amateur Baseball Continued From Page 1 as I could to help my brothers. But I couldn’t because the fire was too He enjoyed watching and hot, and the tires were exploding. Collegiate Baseball (ISSN 0530-9751) is published twice a month coaching baseball, fishing, hunting Marsh and Matt were killed. January-May and once in June, July, September and October and most of all spending time with “I was in shock because I was (14 total issues) by Collegiate Baseball Newspaper, Inc., 2515 his family. really close with my brothers, N. Stone Ave., Tucson, AZ 85705. Periodicals postage paid at “Dad had been fighting liver and we were best friends. We did Tucson, AZ. cancer for about two years,” said everything together. Mitch. “My middle brother Marsh was Postmaster: Send address changes to: “He didn’t want to travel to an unbelievable all-around athlete. Collegiate Baseball MD Anderson Cancer Center in Pat Harrison at Oral Roberts felt P.O. Box 50566 Houston for treatment because he that he was so gifted that he had a Tucson, AZ 85703 didn’t want to interrupt what I was chance to be a very high draft pick doing as a head baseball coach. He if he kept improving. Overnight Mail: 2515 N. 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