The final week before the beginning of the school holiday at Thanda, the last of the long-awaited baseball gear arrived. Up until this point, the extent of the baseball program at Thanda involved me making several baseballs a day out of plastic bread bags, and cleaning out several 5-gallon peanut butter buckets to use as ball buckets. So the day the equipment arrived was a BIG DAY for Thanda baseball. I have several folks to thank for the baseball gear. Kevin Slowey, my good friend who pitches for the Minnesota Twins, donated baseballs and some baseball gear. The Bois-Guillaume Woodchucks, my team in France (thanks to Jean-Luc and Tony) sent a care package full of youth baseball uniforms, hats, gloves, and bats. And finally John Olivier and the Kwazulu-Natal Baseball for providing us with gloves, helmets,
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