Guest post by Ryan Borowicz
With baseball season upon us, I hearken back to my high school baseball days. I was an average player, at best. I focused all of my practice and training time in high school on basketball and football, and playing baseball was just something to do to fill the rest of the day out, all three hours that remained!
But even I, with my limited skills (Most Improved Player, Ashwaubenon High School Varsity Baseball Team, 1994), knew when I had connected with one on the “Sweet Spot” of the bat. I couldn’t hit a curve ball to save my life, but once in awhile I would drop down and drill one to right center off the sweet spot of the bat. And as a hitter, that was always the goal…to swing at just the right time so that the ball connected your bat in that perfect zone that felt so good when you hit it. Now, both times in my career when I hit the sweet spot, I knew it immediately. The ball seemed to jump off of the bat and my hands didn’t hurt! I had to relish that feeling, because it didn’t take long for the opposing pitcher to realize all he had to do was throw me three curveballs and I would corkscrew myself right into the batters box.
Anyway, my point is this. In your sports ministry, without neglecting other things, focus on your sweet spot! I’m reminded of that more and more as our ministry season will start to ramp up here in a month and a half or so, that I should be maximizing all I can do with regards to basketball. Basketball is definitely my sweet spot and what we have the best facilities for. So before I start branching out and trying all kinds of things that I know nothing about (CURVEBALLS!!), I’m going to have another look at the calendar and see what else we might be able to do with basketball, be it youth or adult.
