With the baseball season on the horizon, two of San Quentin’s athletes look forward to building discipline, racial respect and integrity.
“My perspective on playing baseball is important because it offers me another way to see people,” says Adrian “Redd” Casey, was first baseman on last year’s San Quentin A’s team.
Tryouts are scheduled for February for the two San Quentin baseball teams, the A’s and Giants.
Jeff Dumont, pitcher for last year’s A’s, said if he makes one of the teams, he hopes “to shed a positive light on the program. One of my objectives is to magnify the baseball program through exercising consistent integrity,” he commented.
The game involves “dealing with different races on any baseball field requires outright discipline. Without discipline, we have nothing as a team of common people. That’s just the way of life,” Casey said.
“My main goal for the upcoming season is to tryout for and make one of the two outstanding baseball teams we have here at San Quentin,” Dumont added.
Dumont expressed appreciation to his teammates, the coaching staff who donate their time, and the outside teams who come in to play, and everyone else involved in making San Quentin baseball possible.
Casey said he enjoyed the camaraderie that the A’s had during their 8-0 season last year. “It was good unity as a team. It was no one person that created that.”