Lawrence wants to make it easy enough for a high school baseball coach to use PitchSites to sell for a fundraiser.

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The coaches assigned to Walton Middle School were John Hobson, a bushy-bearded high-school history teacher who was just thirty-three years old when he started but had been a successful baseball and tennis coach, and Diane Harding, a teacher who had two decades of experience but had spent the previous seven years out of the classroom, serving as a technology specialist.

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"Parents want to see their kids moving, " said John Mitchell, a former college baseball coach from Alabama.

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More than a week after they fled Cuba, four Cuban baseball players and a coach are still lost at sea in a flimsy boat.

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Obviously, the roles and responsibilities of a baseball manager and basketball coach overlap.

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In basketball, the coach has the same authority as a baseball manager, but he gets more involved with the action on the court.

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The president of the Burlingame Youth Baseball Association says Greg Anderson is not a registered coach and is prohibited from being on the field during games.

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Mr. Halman's death "is a huge setback for Dutch and European baseball, " said Steve Janssen, pitching coach for the Dutch national team, which last month beat Cuba in the finals to win the baseball World Cup in Panama.

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Bench coach Bob Geren brought two of his own bowling balls, including one decorated to look like a giant baseball.

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