Nigeria Baseball Team Can Shock World- Coach Gerard Hall

The Technical Adviser of Nigeria Under 12 Baseball team, Gerard Hall has expressed satisfaction on the quality of talented players in the national camp taking place in Rosebud College, Ibadan and further maintained that the nations has a team that can shock the world.

Coach Hall made this know to reporters after his second full training session with the team. He said that he has spent years in the game of baseball but was amazed by the immense skills being displayed by the youths adding that baseball in Nigeria needs little push so that it will be at par with other big baseball nations like USA, Japan and Cuba.

“This is a clear indication that Nigeria will in no distant time make it to the top. I never believe that Nigeria has this level of talents in baseball. Sincerely, what they need is a little push, then they
will begin to compete with other top base ball nations” he said.

He specifically picked interest in a player (name withheld due to professional reasons) from baseball club Ilorin stating that it was unusual for a player of that age to be exhibiting advance skills in
the game of baseball despite insufficient training hours.

Hall further called on board of Nigeria Baseball and Softball Federation to put in more effort in development of the game in Nigeria because the game has the potentials of taking thousands of youths off the street.

“Nigeria has started in a right note. I will advice the baseball authorities here not to allow these talents to waste. What I have seen here today has shown me that this country has everything it takes to be a great baseball nation” he concluded.