Life Lessons from a Youth Baseball Coach – Wall Street Journal

Over two decades of coaching youth baseball, John McCarthy has learned that dads often have trouble with the most important parts of the game. They’re too competitive, he says, and too emotionally wrapped up in the success of their children. Dads don’t want to hear why batting practice is more important than games. They don’t want a lesson about how to bury their own egos or why they need to build up what he calls kids’ “emotional software.”

So Coach Mac, as he’s known to thousands of ballplayers and their…