The volunteer who runs a children’s baseball team — part teacher, part organiser, part confidence-builder. Dan Olson coached his son Jackson’s teams until Jackson was a teenager, and Jackson remembers a coach who treated every kid equally and made each feel they belonged. That inclusive philosophy reads, in hindsight, like early training for Banana Ball’s everyone-is-part-of-the-show ethos.
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