In today's Star, Geoff Baker has an interesting profile of Frank Catalanotto. It sounds like Frank Sr. is a lot of company. Cat, whose high school coach still calls him "little Frankie," would have been justified in giving up the game under the kind of parental pressure he faced as a 9-year-old, but Jays fans are very lucky he didn't.
This story is reminiscent of Eric Hinske's dad not allowing him or his brother to swing in Little League until they had taken two strikes. Such fathers credit themselves for making their offspring "mentally tough," and live vicariously through their children's accomplishments. With the notable exception of football's unfortunate Todd Marinovich and his idiot scion Marv, we rarely read about the downside of such selfish behaviour. If that's the price of big league success, I'm glad my kids couldn't afford it.
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