Kiongwani Reunion for Friends of Baseball4Africa
Reunion with Ms Sarah Yesterday we took a day off from teaching baseball to revisit Baseball4Africa's roots. There is a very interesting story of how this program came about and it goes a little something like this... For as long as I can remember my father, Jim, had talked about retiring to Africa to teach baseball. However, when the day came that he actually retired he had no real set plans to start such an endeavor. But, so many people had heard about his retirement plans that all of a sudden used baseball equipment started to show up on our doorstep. So with a renewed sense of motivation Jim set off driving across Africa on a 100 day search for the place to teach baseball. He traveled from South Africa to Mozambique, from Malawi to Tanzania, and finally reached Kenya. Now, little did Jim know that while he was on this epic journey there was a dinner party being held thousands of miles away in Sleepy Hollow, New York. At this party a long time fr...