“BASEBALL IS LIFE. The rest is just details.” To members of the Green Valley High School (Henderson, Nevada) varsity baseball team in the mid-1990s, this wasn’t just a catchphrase on a t-shirt; it was gospel. We lived and breathed baseball, and it showed. Between 1993 and 1998, Green Valley won six straight Nevada State Championships in baseball, and no fewer than 15 players from these teams ended up being drafted by a Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise. One of my teammates was drafted 10th in the first round, straight out of high school. He, and no doubt all of the other players who were drafted, dreamed of making it to “the Show” and playing baseball for a living. Unfortunately for most of them, the statistics were not in their favor.

Originally published in Nevada Lawyer - August 2018. Nevada Lawyer is the official publication of the State Bar of Nevada. Their mission is to publish items of interest and importance to the Nevada legal community and to provide a forum for thoughtful and respectful commentary on current issues affecting their members.