The Hillsdale College baseball team is heading south this weekend to kick off its season with a series of exhibition games. The Chargers will play three games against Milligan University, an NAIA school based in Milligan, Tennessee. “We’re looking forward to playing, it’s been a long time,” head coach Eric Theisen said. “We’re confident and...
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True grit: Baseball seniors complete four years of ‘Mental Toughness Fridays’
It’s a cold Friday night in October on the football field. The air is crisp. A group of young men are struggling and yelling, their breath coming in clouds. A coach’s whistle blows, and they collapse, exhausted. This isn’t Friday night football. This is the Hillsdale College baseball team in the off season, and they’ve...
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Beyond the backyard
In a ritual as old as the game itself, fathers and sons have played catch with two leather gloves and a dirty baseball in the backyard. But one day, it stops: fathers will grow old and sons will grow up, leaving the gloves to collect dust. Head baseball coach Eric Theisen and his father, assistant...