This may come as a great shock, but as a child I was a bit of a goofball.



That’s me at baseball practice at the age of 10. It’s from a tape I found recently that my coach had made of each of us hitting. I imagine nowadays it would be some slickly produced highlight video with a pulsing soundtrack, but back then it was cool to be able to watch ourselves play.

My brother I went to some batting cages yesterday to take some swings and see if we could actually still hit long after the glory days of our baseball-playing years. I brought along a camera, and it was interesting to see how things haven’t changed much. Sure, I’m stronger, have a little more swagger in my stance and definitely look better in HD, but all those swings as a 10-year-old certainly laid the foundation.

A little from then and now:






The old video also showed that my penchant for neatness is nothing new. I had forgotten about my habit of cleaning off home plate whenever it was my turn during batting practice:



Someone had to do it, right?