They pack their bags in the family Honda Pilot every Friday afternoon at 4:30, sometimes Saturday morning at 8 and drive 229 miles straight to Mesquite, Texas, for workouts at the Velocracy Baseball Academy, one of the nation’s leading minority youth programs.
This is where the Sims family will stay for the weekend and watch their son train with legendary coach Omar Washington, who played in the Philadelphia Phillies and Boston Red Sox organizations. They’ll go to church Sunday morning at the Greenville Avenue Church of Christ in Richardson, Texas, return to the complex for more personalized training, and head back at 4:30 each Sunday for a 3 ½-hour drive back home to Edmond, Oklahoma.
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