An Imperfect Offering by James Orbinski

An Imperfect Offering by James Orbinski

It is important that players and parents understand the culture as well as the fundamentals of softball. From the beginning of your daughter's softball career, you and your daughter can embrace all aspects of the game and be prepared for each stage of your daughter's development. Whether the team is winning or losing, preparation is an important part of learning from each game and taking those lessons into the next game.

In his Threw the Eyes: It's Just a Game of Softball, author and professionalsoftball pitching coach Dwayne Zulaufbreaks down the game to help you andyour daughter prepare for every stageof her development on the field. Fromrecreational to travel to high school andfrom making donations to navigating thepolitics, this guide seeks to help you knowwhat to expect and become the source ofsupport your daughter needs to excel as asoft ball player.

This coach's view can help you as a parent guide your daughter in soft ball through the wins, the losses, the heartbreaks, and, most importantly, the fun.

James Orbinski is past international president of Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders, and accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for MSF in 1999. Prior to joining MSF, he was a medical researcher in Rwanda in the late 1980s, and a family doctor in small town Canada. With MSF, he worked in Peru, in Somalia during its famine and civil war, in Afghanistan during its civil war, in Rwanda through the genocide and in Zaire during the slaughter that followed. In 1999, he helped launch MSF's Access to Essential Medicines Campaign, and he has spoken on behalf of MSF before the United Nations Security Council, the leaders of the World Health Organization, the United Nations High Commission for Relief, the World Bank, and at the White House and before government ministers and heads of state the world over. When his term as president of MSF ended in 2001, he worked as chair of MSF's Neglected Diseases Working Group. In 2004, he left MSF to found Dignitas International, an organization committed to community-based care for people living with HIV/AIDS in the developing world. He lives in Canada.