Watch it all the way into the glove. Play the ball—don’t let the ball play you. Bend! Put your glove in the dirt. Stay low. Set your feet.

Señor Molina’s final skill lesson. Curious he waited till the very end to teach fielding.

Stateside kids are fielding grounders from day one. But like Bengie said, Señor Molina had a program for teaching them baseball.

Bengie Molina and Joan Ryan, Molina: The Story of the Father Who Raised an Unlikely Baseball Dynasty (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015). pg 21