jack perconte

In this podcast of Something Worth catching, former major leaguer and long-time youth instructor, Jack Perconte, along with Sam Zagorac, another long-time youth coach and owner of the Diamond Edge Academy in Willowbrook IL. discuss many of the issues of youth baseball. Additionally, this podcast ends with a hilarious, true story from Jack's playing days with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

 Join former Big Leaguer Jack Perconte and Sam Zagorac, owner of Diamond Edge Academy in Willowbrook as they talks all things baseball. No softball or baseball question is too basic or too complex for these long time coaches. If you like what you hear, send questions and tell a friend about these podcasts and thanks for listening. This episode was taped in the spring of 2016 when it looked like both the Chicago White Sox, one of Jack's former teams, and the Chicago Cubs were going to contend for the World Series. We all know how that ended up. Anyway...

Join former Big Leaguer Jack Perconte and Sam Zagorac, owner of Diamond Edge Academy in Willowbrook as they talks all things baseball. No softball or baseball question is too basic or too complex for these long time coaches. If you like what you hear, send questions and tell a friend about these podcasts and thanks for listening.
This episode was taped in the spring of 2016 when it looked like both the Chicago White Sox, one of Jack's former teams, and the Chicago Cubs were going to contend for the World Series. We all know how that ended up. Anyway...

The following is a version of a Jack Perconte article that first appeared in Baseball the Magazine in 2009, where Jack has been a contributing editor. Jack's article takes a different spin on the notion that sports success is mostly mental or ninety percent as Yogi Berra said, with the other half physical.

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