Welcome 3 New Sponsors to the Redwood City Cardinals!

Major props to our newest sponsors, rounding out our sponsor roll for the 2015 Tournament season!

Twitch:

Twitch is where you’ll find the best online video shows in the gaming world. From behemoths like Joystiq, Gamespot, and Destructoid, to insiders like LiveonThree, ManvsGame, and Day9, this is where you’ll find the vanguard of live gaming entertainment.

 

Haslam Insurance:

Based in Burlingame, Edward J. Haslam Co. is proud to serve the insurance needs of the San Francisco Bay Area and all of California. Let us help you find the right auto, home, life and commercial insurance to meet your personal needs. Contact us now for quick, competitive quotes!

  

 

Today Sotheby's Intl. Realty

Representing Today's Sotheby's, Ed Gory enjoys helping his clients achieve great success in real estate. He has helped people buy and sell houses in various cities all over Silicon Valley.  As a native of the Bay Area and having lived here his whole life, he offers his clients valuable insights about Silicon Valley’s areas.

 

Be a Sponsor for the Redwood City Cardinals!

With our recent acceptance as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, the Redwood City Cardinals are pleased to announce that we are now accepting SPONSORSHIPS!

Two Ways to Sponsor
We have now set up both an online and offline capability to accept sponsorships & donations.

Online, you can just follow this link: http://www.gofundme.com/m840k0

Or, if you'd like to see the various sponsorship levels we have, send an email to CardinalsRC@gmail.com for a sponsorship letter and form.

Donations for the 2015 Season are tax deductible (non-profit tax ID # 47-2731992).

Superb Fundamentals -- Start Early and Start Often

One of the best lines I read about the SF Giants, on their path to the World Series, summed up how they dominated the St. Louis Cardinals:

"The Giants are in command of the NLCS because they are playing superb fundamental baseball and the Cardinals are not. St. Louis is making critical mistakes on the most basic plays." (from article on SFGate)

Superb fundamental baseball vs. mistakes on basic plays.

This mentality of laser-focus on the fundamentals should start at the earliest stages of a player's baseball development.  A good coach understands that fundamentals are like the foundation of a house.  You can't build a house starting at the top, you have to start with a strong, rock-solid foundation. The notion of winning, at the youth baseball level, should be secondary to learning how to do things correctly.   It boggles my mind when I see other club players out there, on supposedly "elite" teams, make consistent mistakes on their fundamentals because they're trying to make "hot dogging" plays.  What on earth are their coaches teaching them?  Certainly not how to be a team player, because some of these kids are more concerned with making a flashy play than doing it correctly.

Bottom line, with our Cardinals, we PROUDLY emphasize three simple things: play hard, execute the fundamentals we've learned, and have fun.   We are more concerned about the kids learning the proper fundamentals than the final win-loss record.  After all, these are just kids, not major leaguers.