My One-Game Stint as a Baseball Coach

The headline is about coaching baseball, but let us start elsewhere. Past Basketball Coaching Dreams There was a time when I was a kid that I wanted to be a basketball coach. That time passed. In the end, I never undertook any effort to pursue basketball coaching as a profession, much less coached a game myself. The subject has not crossed my mind in many years, and certainly not since I have been running The New Leaf Journal. Becoming a Trusted Source for Basketball Coaches Speaking of running The New Leaf Journal, I make a habit of collecting links to my writing from around the web. In so doing, I came across a link in Mike Klinzing’s The Hoop Heads Podcast Newsletter for January 9, 2026. The link was not to my most “popular” NBA article, Examining Whether Defense Wins Championships, but instead to my more recent essay, Record vs Scoring Margin in NBA Team Analysis. Mr. Klinzing not only provided a link, but also commentary which I quote in full: This article explains that a team’s…