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Wake Forest Baseball Coach Tom Walter Goes to Bat for Player
On February - 8 - 2011
"I love these kids like they were my own; we're a family around here." How many times have you heard these words uttered from a coach's mouth?
I don't know about you, but I've heard it so often that I've begun to think those words are just a sports cliché with no real meaning at all—or I used to think that.
That changed today when I read a story that's almost too good for Hollywood.
Here's the plot. Stop me if it starts to sound familiar.
A coach spends long hours on the road traveling from one small town to the next in search ...