PONY Baseball: Mustang Red manager passing on love of baseball

As a baseball fan Rod Lovell just can't get enough of the game.

Maybe that's why he's been coaching young players in four beginner leagues for the past five years.

"I'm just a super baseball fan," Lovell admits.

He got his son, James, started in a Phoenix T-ball league five years ago.

"He was immediately obsessed with baseball," Lovell said. "He loves to play and he loves to watch."

During the first T-ball season Lovell was asked to help out as an assistant coach.

"It just went on from there," Lovell added. "We both have a love for the game and it's a great thing that we can do together."

This season Lovell is coaching the PONY League Mustang Red 9- and 10-year-olds.

He has also coached at the PONY Pinto level and a Little League farm before retuning to the PONY Mustang division.

"It's been three years since I did Little League," Lovell said. "There are some differences, but overall the level of play has been good and it's still baseball."

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