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Lessons From A Failed Pro Baseball Career

14 Nov 2023 · 1 min

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A short first-person account by Andy Neary describing how his professional baseball career with the Milwaukee Brewers organization failed to take off. Neary explains that after signing a contract he lost confidence when facing players from bigger programs and abandoned the key habit that had made him successful—throwing strikes.

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And by the time my senior season was over in college, I had one more chance to play bigger by signing a contract pitch in the Milwaukee brewers organization. Now, I wish I could keep telling you success stories, guys, but this is where the success ends. Because when I got the pro ball, I lost my confidence. Here I was playing on the same field with other players from lsu, Texas, Georgia, you name it. And I let that get to my head because they were better than me. They were from bigger schools than I was. But more importantly, I got away from the course of action that made me successful. And for me, it came down to one thing, throwing strikes.