Kampala, Uganda

Last month, I went to Uganda to coach and play baseball.

And to meet George.

George Mukhobe is a 37-year-old baseball coach from the slums of Kampala, Uganda’s capital. He’s also the top baseball administrator in the country. Missionaries, and some Ugandan coaches, taught him the game when he was a teenager. He stuck with it, and along the way cracked the code of how to teach hardball.

Two years ago, Uganda became the first African country to send a team to the Little League World Series. A documentary, Opposite Field, recently had its premiere in New York.