Dodgers star Mookie Betts was too small to make a Little League team—so his mom started her own. (via CNBCMakeIt)
Unfortunately, despite the fact that Betts would one day grow up to be a professional baseball player, their first Little League team did not get a fairy tale ending of its own. In fact, Collins says, the team was not very good at all.
Collins is a former high school softball player and an avid bowler, who always encouraged Betts to pursue his athletic interests. While Collins was only Betts' full-time coach for one season before another coach took over the team the following year, she and Betts' father, Willie Betts, spent years ferrying their son around Tennessee for baseball practices and games.
"His dad and I both told him, 'We'll support you whatever your decision is,'" Collins says. "With anything, you have to give a kid their options and let it be their decision. And, that's what we did. We didn't want to make the decision for him."
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