The greatest thing you can do in life is to tell a young boy or girl that they're 'the very best' at something - baseball, reading, art. That gives them the wonderful feeling that they can do anything, which they can!
I was on the high school track team, believe it or not, and played baseball, poorly but passionately.
The first books I was interested in were all about baseball. But I can't think of one single book that changed my life in any way.
