Why is baseball a good game for kids?
Dave Winfield: Because there are so many life lessons to learn through baseball. There’s competition, overcoming adversity … (Baseball) doesn’t come easy. (Laughs.) PD: So how can parents get their kids interested in the sport? DW: The best you can do is expose them to it [and] find out if it’s in their heart. Some have a love for it and some give it up after Little League. But if they have a love for it, they’ll keep going. PD: You’ve said throwing off a wall is a great way to learn baseball skills. Why is that? DW: In baseball, if you don’t have anyone else to (throw a ball to), you throw it off the wall. And when you field it, you’re working on your footwork, and you’re working on your throwing. You can do it all day long, by yourself, and most people do not know that and they don’t do it. You strengthen your arm, you strengthen your accuracy, you get your footwork together. You work your glove, which a lot of kids don’t do nowadays. They just focus on “let me go to the batting ca
