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with later. He’s having a bad day. However, he knows that he can’t take that feeling to the ballpark. “To be a successful coach, you cannot have a bad day,” says Pintard, who has led his team to five National Baseball Congress World Series championships since 2006 and has won more than 800 games as the Foresters’ manager. “Or if you are having a bad day, you have to hide it. If you verbalize that you’re having a bad day, then it’s okay for your assistant coaches and your players to have a bad day. As a leader, you can never have bad days.” So, no matter how he is feeling, he puts on his game face and heads out. Before heading to the ballpark, Pintard is on the phone ordering equipment. The team is running short on baseballs and, at this level of the sport, there’s no one else to make sure the Foresters have this vital piece of the baseball puzzle. He’s got dozens of emails to return. Some are from players who want to join the team. It’s early in their summer season, so he has his eye out for additions that can help fill roster spots. Assembling and organizing the roster is perhaps the coach’s most important administrative function. A coach will typically work harder and longer at the office or doing paperwork than he or she does on the field.

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