You can go a long way on lessons learned from Little League Baseball, State Senator Cecil Thomas explained while describing the 1960s summers he played for Thomson MacConnell Cadillac at Owl’s Nest Park in Evanston.
“My coach, Mr. Brown, became a surrogate father,” Thomas said. “He taught me and all the other guys on the team responsibility. And baseball was secondary. If you wanted to play baseball you had to follow these rules. And I learned a whole lot in terms of, not just how to play the game but life in general.”
That’s why Thomas is proud he played a role in making Ohio the second state to use sports betting as a funding source for youth sports.
