It was 1994 and I was a sophomore at El Toro High School, a school with a legendary baseball program.
Our Varsity head coach, Tom McCaffrey, a truly phenomenal man, had to miss practice to attend a funeral.
We thought we might get the day off.
Instead, the previous head coach, and a baseball coaching legend, Dan DeLeon, had agreed to run practice that day,…
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