Grand Street baseball coach returns with same championship expectations
It isn’t easy playing baseball during the cold and rainy days of early spring in New York, but when Grand Street Campus’ coach Melvin Martinez took the field for the first time this year, none of that mattered.
“I was so psyched,” recalled Martinez, who became giddy just remembering the day. “It was freezing, but for me it was a sunny day. Mentally, I felt like it was 90-degrees. I was like a little kid because I was so excited. The kids were freezing, but I was just like, ‘I’m loving every minute of it.’”
Martinez returned to coach his 19th season at Grand Street this year after he sat out all of last season while battling a severe case of what doctors think was the shingles.