June 15, 2026 - Good Morning! It’s Monday, June 15.
Have you seen the movie “A League of Their Own”? It’s one of my favorites. It’s the one where Tom Hanks plays the coach of a women’s baseball team. In a memorable scene, the team’s best player tells the coach that she’s quitting because “It’s just too hard.” Hanks replies, “If it was easy, then anybody could do it. It’s the hard... that makes it great!” On this day, in 1928, the baseball Hall of Famer, Ty Cobb, did something very hard, and set a record that still stands almost a hundred years later. What did he do? He stole home plate.
Cobb accomplished that feat an amazing 54 times in his career - the most of any major leaguer. Stealing second, or even third, is hard enough. But the pitcher has to change his regular motion and turn to throw to those bases, and the fielders have to move from their regular positions to cover the base. But when a player dares to steal home he’s going exactly where the pitched ball is headed, a ball that is moving sometimes at a hundred miles an hour. And he’s running toward the catcher, who’s waiting for him at home base. Impossible! Incredible! Amazing!
Great players like Cobb, and great athletes in every sport, do incredible, amazing things all the time. They make the hard look easy. When you think of it, that’s the definition of mastery in any endeavor, the magic of true greatness. Speaking of greatness - “O Lord, You have made the heavens and the earth, by your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for You!” Jeremiah 32:17.
Meet you back here tomorrow,
David
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