SOMETHING SPECIAL
Some players leave their mark in a way that’s difficult to forget.
That’s certainly the case for John Goodwin. A youth travel ball coach of the Olney (Md.) Pirates, Goodwin remembers taking over the 9-year-old Pirates club and being told by the commissioner to take the best players he could find.
That direction led Goodwin to select 7-year-old James Wood. He was too young, the commissioner said. You can’t have a 7-year-old on a club made up of players two years older. That just didn’t happen.
“I said, ‘You told me to take the best players
