CLEMSON – Tommy Dalley cannot throw strikes.
Or, at least, Vidalia High School’s head basketball coach and athletic director struggled to land pitches in the zone when he was trying to help his eight-year-old son Ty learn how to swing a bat over a decade ago.
The elder Dalley, a former guard, once recorded 17 assists in a game for Belmont in 1992, and won an NAIA National title at Birmingham Southern College in 1995, but when it came to baseball practice, his message to his son was simple.
“All right, I can’t throw a strike,” Ty recounted his father saying.