BRUCE BOLT BLOG

 * * *   "When the world shut down, I was eight games into my senior year of baseball. I feel like I kind of gave my life to the sport. Everything I had worked for kind of got stripped away from me. I was sitting in my English class and my phone started to blow up with orders. BRUCE BOLT had just started to gain a little bit of traction and it, it really helped with taking my mind off of what was happening with high school baseball.Baseball's the only sport where you can fail seven out of 10 times...

  * * *   Meet the man who committed to play college baseball at Vanderbilt before he even played one inning in high school: Spencer Jones - 1st round draft pick, BRUCE BOLT Pro, and current minor league standout. "Season's been good so far. Early on I've had some success and I've been looking forward to playing a full season of pro baseball my whole life. Now that it's here, it's more than I could have asked for." Subscribe and listen to today's episode on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, too!

The developmental years have a lot of built-in pressure. Kids contend with academics, physical and emotional changes, and jockeying for social position. Uncertainty, inexperience, and FOPO (fear of other people’s opinions) create choppy seas. Sports magnify these things. For some kids, staying under the radar is an effective survival mechanism, so resist the urge to perceive it as a failure of assertiveness. Passivity provides emotional, physical, and psychological safety. Don’t worry, assertiveness and passivity aren’t an either/or proposition and they aren’t fixed traits.  What is Assertiveness? We teach our kids to be nice, share, and put other people first. As...

[Also featured in USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, and Sports Business Journal] Perhaps you’ve noticed that, every time Aledmys Diaz steps to the plate this season, he sports a pair of mismatched batting gloves—one blue, one red. They don’t integrate quite perfectly with the trademark green and gold of his new team, the Oakland Athletics. Aledmys’ teammates on the A’s have noticed. “They asked, ‘Are they Cuba colors?’” the utility man said with a smile in a recent conversation. While blue and red indeed adorn the flag of Aledmys’ native land, his sartorial choice speaks to something more personal than...

  * * *   Catch the recap of the World Baseball Classic and our BRUCE BOLT community meetup in Miami, Florida on the day of the championship!   Listen to this new episode of the BRUCE BOLT Podcast now available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

  * * *   Founder & CEO, Bear Mayer, is on his way to Miami, Florida for the semifinals of the World Baseball Classic this weekend! Catch up with Bear and find out who he'll be meeting up with when he arrives.   Listen to this new episode of the BRUCE BOLT Podcast now available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.