To the Potter Baseball Family,
Thank you for an unbelievable year in 2011. More and more people have become part of our “movement” to make baseball, and life experiences, more rewarding and impactful for everyone. It is working. We are changing lives through the four tenets in the book, “Whatever Happened to Baseball?” and the game of baseball.
PASSION … HARD WORK … RESPECT … SELFLESSNESS
We will continue to coach and move forward in 2012 with the same philosophy and mindset that brought us so many great experiences in 2011. We will continue to emphasize the three things that I believe are really important for each coach to demonstrate: educate, communicate and motivate. Mix these attributes with the four tenets and you usually end up with something real special.
This will be third year that we run the Potter Baseball Tour. People are starting to understand that we are not going away; that the principles that must come back to our youth will be taught and demonstrated over and over through the tour. We will go from town to town playing baseball the right way, with total fun, passion, and respect. We will participate in community service in any town which will find things for us to do. We will create, promote and support fundraisers which will raise funds for people in need, people less fortunate. We will continue to show communities the beauty of coming together for a common cause, even if it’s nothing more than a day at the park. We will continue to teach the tour players much more than just the game of baseball. We will once again change people’s lives.
This summer, about 40 ball players and tens of thousands of individuals will be touched by the 2012 Potter Baseball Tour in some way, whether you are at PNC Park in Pittsburgh, taking in a Cincinnati Reds baseball game, helping in a soup kitchen, umpiring a tour game, working with a challenger program, running a concession stand, helping kids at one of the 20 or so baseball clinics, taking in a 4th of July festival, eating a 15 lb hamburger, tubing down a river, fishing on the Chesapeake Bay, going through SEAL training and yoga and personal workouts, or playing in a volleyball tournament. The opportunities are endless for you to get involved. There’s something for everyone.
Oh yeah, I forgot a few: singing the national anthem, announcing a game, being a bat boy at a tour game, listening to a discussion from a professional scout or a television broadcaster, taking in the 911 memorial in Shanksville, Pa, touring the Philadelphia Phillies Stadium , eating at Primanti Brothers in Pittsburgh, visiting the Arthur Ashe Tennis facility in Philly, touring a college, playing on incredible fields, eating the best pizza in the Youngstown area, and about 100 other things.
This spring we will unveil Coach Potter’s second book, “Saving Baseball”. Perhaps you will find some of the answers to whatever happened to baseball.
This fall we will unveil the Potter baseball League.
If you have a child who is 12-u eligible in 2013 (next summer) and may want to have the experience of playing a week at Cooperstown, contact Coach Potter.
If you have a child who may want to be a batboy for a day at a University of Maryland baseball game, contact Coach Potter
If you are looking for a ball team for your son for this year and you need help, contact Coach Potter.
What a great year this is going to be. Baseball, doing it the right way, is a thing of beauty. The Potter Baseball Family does it the right way.
This will be fun.
