“I look strict! ( Steve laughing)  And I guess maybe to put some of the moms at ease – I should have approved another picture… like, maybe where I am happy and everything seems fine… lol.  But the truth is when a player attends one one my programs, the  majority of the time they are trying to learn something.   And the last time I checked learning is hard.  It is more like this face…  Below you can read about some of my accomplishments and I am very proud of them.  But none of them were possible without education, effort and discipline.   As I get older and think back on life I realize that I was  not born with any of these tools.  I acquired them – copied them – emulated them from various people in my life that I looked up to.  Therefore, my programs are all seasoned for a good taste of education, effort and discipline.  This element of our programming often proves to be equally as important as the baseball instruction.   Years ago I was asked in a newspaper interview what I did for a living.  I replied,  I try to make boys better men by using the game of baseball as my vehicle.  Studying sport in college, I came to believe that baseball’s design is more like life than any other sport.   Therefore, I also believe that when baseball is played and practiced correctly it will literally act as a safe and repetitive dress rehearsal for life itself.  A sort of fun, life’s practice, before it all really counts.  What could be better?” –   Steve Ferroli