New Jersey has a few resources to provide athletes baseball training facilities including Jack Cust’s new facility in Flemington to Joe Barth’s in Cherry Hill to Garett Teel’s Academy.
Yet when one talks about the Cherry Hill NJ area, one must mention Joe Barth Sr and of course the powerhouse of the Brooklawn American Legion. Yes, it is Joe Jr Dad!
Maryland-DC-Virginia is also as fortunate in that it has many resources across the area to provide student-athletes to help train the body, the mind and spirit on both the amateur or professonally level of play.
I also recall it was not that long ago, where the Rouse family of Columbia thought it was a good community thing to do and offer a 150,000 sq ft facility for six baseball enthusiast in the support of conducting winter baseball clinic and raising capital for their summer programs. Those six included:
- Randy, Alex, Bear, Paul, Jim & John.
Since area coaches who worked the clinic were getting as much as $100 a day from the 'fab' six, I recall receiving a call from Joe Jr offering his services and was willing to travel south. I suggested my place to crash yet finally asked, Gee Joe, why not start something is South Jersey. And he did.
The rest is history.
cheers
Bear
postscript: Larry....Demetrius says hi.
Neither I nor 'D' could remember John's last name (founding father of Reds)...(John coached the Bears in New Mexico before heading east) and son played for Lou Jenkins, and had a grand college career!
