Baseball Team Pride--Character And Appearance Count

Baseball Team Pride--Character and Appearance Does Count

By: Wiley Channell
Baseball teams lacking in team pride, character, and self esteem as a unit will under
perform and reflect an inabilility to achieve a winners trophy. Baseball leagues have
standards and rules outlining the requirements for uniforms and conduct but any team
which needs a leagues rules for guidance is a proven "also ran."
The pride of a team, the associated conduct and respect for the game, the uniform, and the
sport must be an integral part of and be within the individuals of the team to produce
winners. Attention to small details and the pride to honor the most minute parts of proper
behavior and the wearing of a team uniform and performing before the fans and general
public is critical.
How can a team develop a winning attitude when it as a group has no burning pride of
the teams demeanor and dress? Would a manager of a team allow one of his players to
enter a game with no socks on and looking like "Joe the Rag Picker?" Not likely,
however, pay attention to some of the teams and you might notice some have their
trousers bloused and some have them full length to the shoe top. What it represents is a
lack of attention to detail and a sure sign of a perennial loser.
One local team I have noticed will almost invariably in any picture, in the local paper,
show players with caps on of the parent Major League club. A team lacking in enough
pride to be photographed wearing the local teams cap and logo is lacking in pride enough
to be a winner. Small detail but a telling truth teller as to pride of the team.
I was a very fortunate young player during my high school days in that our coach did his
dead level best to instill team pride in all of us players. He provided us with the very best
and the sharpest looking uniforms the school could possibly afford.
He relentlessly pounded home the idea that we were not out there on our own but that we
represented "Our Team" and "Our School" and "Our Families" and that if we had
other thoughts then go hang it up for we did not belong on the team.
I had to get off my chest this little short "on my mind" tirade about pride of team
concerning conduct and appearance.
I do firmly believe there is a correlation of team pride and winning teams. Well! tell
me do you think a team can be a winner that doesn't care? Nuff said.
Pride of The Yankees in their pinstripes didn't happen by chance it was a team thing.

Major Wiley B. Channell USMC (retired) at http://www.baseballfarming.com talking all
about baseball for your enjoyment.

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