Failure!

“Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” — Robert F. Kennedy

Failure sits at the heart of baseball. That is the quiet truth. You fail more than you succeed, and the game calls that greatness. A .300 hitter is a Hall of Famer, yet that means seven times out of ten he walks back to the dugout with nothing to show for it. In life, people look at that number and call it unacceptable. In baseball, we clap for it. We h…