The story of a "never disheartened" baseball player and 42 poor teenagers
The small players of the baseball team are doing baseball learning.
Female members of the strong angel baseball team watched the game.
Before the arrival of the International Children's Day on June 1st, several children from a folk baseball club in Beijing accompanied by their parents went to the base to play a friendly match with the strong angel baseball team. The boys flew on the field, and 10 black and thin girls taught the adults to pitch and swing.
They are the first members of the Yi women's baseball team in China, the youngest is 6 years old and the oldest is 11 years old. This group of "little teachers" who came out of Daliangshan, Sichuan, was serious and professional, and won unanimous praise from "university members". The coach introduced: "They just learned 5 months, the technical moves are all but just can't play." The voice just dropped, and several girls unanimously "corrected" the coach "more than 4 months."
In their world, every day after "competition" proves that "hard enough" also means "smart enough". After all, at the end of last year, when coach Sun Lingfeng took them and 8 boys out of the mountain, they knew nothing about baseball. Now, this white ball has been written into their future.
Trapped, aided and self-help
When the 18 children came to "Beijing on TV" from the folds of the southwestern mountain, they moved into the new home of the team in an abandoned factory in Songzhuang, Tongzhou.
This is the team's third "home" since its establishment in 2016. At that time, Sun Lingfeng, the former captain of the China National Baseball Team, and his partners formed a team to provide free baseball training for poor children and "factual orphans," but "the place is large enough to meet the needs of dozens of people for life training. The request made the love base always turn around in the suburbs of Beijing. It was once "hidden" in a bungalow in Guanniufang Village, Xiaotangshan Town, Beijing, and moved to Qijia Village, Nanchang, Changping.
The new base is housed in an abandoned factory area, construction waste is piled up in small hills, and the old warehouse cannot be directly used for children's training and life. Sun Lingfeng can only lead the team members and construction workers to build a home by hand. When the bricks are not neat when building the walls, the children pick the waste bricks from the construction waste and reuse them.
In October last year, two 5.3-meter-long vans were transported 5 times, moving the lives of more than 30 teachers and students 40 kilometers away. Soon after, 18 children from Daliangshan came here over 2,300 kilometers and started a new life.
In order to give the children a good year, the base hoarded a lot of food. Unexpectedly, the New Coronary Pneumonia epidemic spread rapidly. With the news of the closure of Wuhan, Sun Lingfeng quickly closed the base and refused all visits. He was highly nervous. In addition to worrying about the risk of the epidemic, he was even more worried about "playing all the food"-staff Add 50 children, three meals a day, "Children consume a lot of training, and usually have big buns in their palms, and the young man can kill five or six with one meal." In the name of "Help", various kinds of meat and vegetables are marked as "Express".
"Base maintenance has received the help of many caring people so far." Sun Lingfeng said that the team's public account will regularly update the materials donated by the society, as small as 5 fly swatters, as large as 4 boilers. Although the donation was also affected after the outbreak, there were still charity companies sending charcoal in the snow, and the person in charge drove it in person. All the donated vegetables were neatly yarded at the base of the base, and the people left, placed it for half an hour, and moved in after disinfection. Everyone found a "Fu" on each box of dishes.
When the base of Nanqijia was faced with demolition, during the cold winter, teachers and students were repeatedly forced to cut off electricity and water. These experiences are inscribed in Sun Lingfeng's memory. For a few months, only he could enter and leave the base. The task of purchasing all fell on his shoulders. Dozens of boxes of compressed biscuits, candles, batteries, water purifiers, etc. were still stored in the warehouse. Water and electricity must be able to cope."
As the epidemic was gradually brought under control, the team also ushered in a turning point. The Songzhuang base was 30 kilometers further south, close to the land boundary of Hebei, and another friend who laughed at being "pitted" by Sun Lingfeng provided a new home for the children. The long-worn professional baseball field in the park revealed the once-stranded baseball dream of the owner, and also hinted that the team can temporarily say goodbye to the life of "guerrilla".
The new base has a vegetable garden. When not training, Sun Lingfeng organized children to grow vegetables under the guidance and guidance of the old crops. For these children who have to bear the burden of the family from urination, going to the ground is a familiar life, but chasing cucumbers, eggplants, beans and tomatoes sowed by their friends... seems to be doomed from the moment the seeds are buried in the soil Will be more delicious.
This is the team's fourth home. Previously, Sun Lingfeng personally ran over 200 bases. He called himself a living map of Beijing's suburbs, and even considered moving the base to Shanghai. But each migration is a huge project. In addition to the dilemma of site renovation and financial support, it is particularly troublesome for a group of children without Beijing nationality to enter school.
Before coming to Beijing, 6-year-old A Niu went to school for 4 hours a day to go to school every day. In the first grade, she could write the names of 10 girls in the team. A piece of A4 white paper was torn into more than 20 small pieces of paper by her. Both sides were filled with characters. One had "zi" on the top and "wood" on the bottom. This was the word "Li" written by A Niu. .
"You wrote upside down."
"Impossible, you check it with me."
Looking at the word "Li" on the reporter's cell phone, A Niu sighed intently, crossed out the typo, and wrote "Li" one stroke at a time.
I don't want them to call me "Dad"
In addition to baseball, writing and drawing on paper is the favorite thing of this group of girls. Most of them will draw the little people under the pen with long hair. "I have my hair here." 11-year-old Er Luo gestured at the waist. The girls used to have long hair. They cut it for playing baseball. short. You can choose one of the two, baseball is better than long hair, but they will use earrings to fill the pierced holes of family help when they are five or six years old, making themselves "like a princess."
After coming to Beijing, the "Princesses" had made cakes, played snowball fights, and learned bicycles. Sun Lingfeng hoped that the children's lives would not be limited to baseball. His worries made the children feel love and trust. Erlo said, "We will call Coach Sun 'Daddy' and his wife 'Mom'."
"Father's positioning is not suitable for me, I am the coach." Sun Lingfeng admitted to the reporters of China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily that the children's native families have their own misfortunes, and their own contributions may indeed be more than the parents of these children, but He did not want to be called "Daddy", "because it is easy to poke the softest part of my heart."
After retiring, Sun Lingfeng participated in charity work, but the donation is unknown, the donation method is single, and the reality of the recipient ’s fate cannot be completely changed. He has his own understanding of charity, "In addition to money, we must invest energy and time to accompany , Charity is not charity. " In addition, to ensure the sustainability of public welfare behavior, "softhearted" will be counterproductive, and he will be a "hardhearted" person.
"Absolute poverty, especially the orphans, I do n’t care if you care; health; 7-9 years old." At the beginning, Sun Lingfeng set three standards for the children he wanted to help, so he saw a family Fragmented, parents died, betrayed by his family, wandering, fighting ... He reminded himself to manage "sympathy", "The person's life is given by God, no sympathy is needed, but the future needs to be changed." Therefore, his "selection" standard None of them is considered from the perspective of baseball. "Baseball has less stringent requirements on physical fitness. The key is thinking. As long as you turn your characteristics into specialty, you are a master on the baseball field." He admitted that he did not intend to change all children. Become a professional player, "It is enough to have a skill in baseball and become a person useful to society."
But the standard of 7-9 years old is very particular. "Children will enter puberty soon after they are 10 years old. There are special periods of thought and cognition, and they will be relatively hidden. It is difficult to grasp the ideas in his heart. This is prone to risks. Once it affects other children, the consequences will be terrible. The team is likely to have the risk of disbanding, what about the children? Now let them go back and kill them." Sun Lingfeng needs to stay "sane online" at all times.
The exception still appeared. The three brothers who just got rich have a mental illness. After the death of his father, a few children can only beg for food in the village. "According to the actual situation, only the second child is of the same age." But it was Tsinghua Baseball who was responsible for docking the family Guo Zhongjian, one of the team's founders and coaches on the team, came back, "This second child and the third followed him, and I slapped my head, hey." Sun Lingfeng remembered that Guo Zhongjian still told his family a few days later. In the situation, I hope to take the boss to the team, "I have been dead, one day I am relieved, the boss is also coming."
But with more than 40 children, the majority still need to be mindful. A member of Sun Lingfeng who had been with the team for many years was born without a father. When he was 5 years old, his mother sold his twin brother for 7,000 yuan and went away. He lived with Erbo. "At first I thought I was a liar, and I was unwilling to kick and kick again. After two years of staying, I was reluctant to go back." Sun Lingfeng remembered that last year's Spring Festival, when a child from his hometown wanted to take him back to the festival, he was unwilling to go to the ground After getting back to the car, he struggled desperately after returning home. He was sent back to the base on the fourth day of the Chinese New Year.
In April, without any signs, 41-year-old Sun Lingfeng was rushed to the hospital with a sudden heart attack and made 4 cardiac stents. The day after he was discharged from the hospital, he went to the team member's house to check the situation. "I feel that the child's mentality has not been fully adjusted, so I can only take the time to visit and cannot bring him back. After all, I am responsible for more than 40 children."
The bigger the team is, the more powerless it is to harass Sun Lingfeng. He remembered the feeling of trekking in the dense forest of Daliang Mountain, "The more and more desolate we walk, the less we can do, but the resistance is too much." Such a road, petite Aniu walks every day, sometimes carrying a Asi, her shorter sister, "This 6-year-old kid bears too much."
Aniu is 6 years old and is not in Sun Lingfeng's standard. "But her hukou is 7 years old." Sun Lingfeng found a reason to persuade himself, and she became a fish in the net.
"Why didn't you bring Asi out?"
"Axi is too small." Sun Lingfeng didn't want to turn the team into a "welfare home". "I don't only need them to grow up, I also want them to become talents."
Unwilling to sell miserably, what "sell" is the future
"If the outside world insists on treating this matter as a product, I don't want to "sell" the pain and misery, I want to "sell" the future." Sun Lingfeng's team has no interest from people to widespread attention, like standing Under the shower, comprehend and question at the same time. As far as he is concerned, regardless of changes in children or public opinion, all he has to do is tighten a string. "This is the wisdom he learned from the baseball field." Athletes are too excited to deform, too depressed and too No state, need to focus and continue to increase mental strength. "
Breathing, the outstanding baseball players have analyzed the situation clearly. The character of teammates and the characteristics of their opponents are the basis for making decisions. "Planning and execution" is a logic that has been developed on the baseball field for a long time. Subconsciousness becomes the rhythm of doing things. It was this rhythm that led Sun Lingfeng to today, "I knew from the first day that this was beyond my ability and I felt that I was climbing all the time." Like riding a tiger, the bigger the stall, the more money is needed The more resources and resources, the higher the requirements for his ability. In order to raise funds and ask for help, the baseball player known as "China Suzuki Ichiro" put on his suit and tightened his eyebrows. The "underlying logic" and "industrial model" came out of each layer. There has never been "incomplete in one sentence" The way it looks, "I can only hold this plate if I keep raising it."
Sun Lingfeng had a deeper understanding of the wealth brought by these baseballs after he retired, so he was convinced that baseball can change itself and these children covered by the jungle.
At the age of 18, Sun Lingfeng was selected as the National Baseball Team of China and served as the captain. He was awarded the "Robbery King" in the Asian Baseball Championship 6 times and won the Most Valuable Player in the Chinese Baseball League. "Actually, he was very skinny when he was a kid, and his height was not good, but he was flexible and fast." Zhang Jinxin, who has worked in youth baseball for nearly 40 years, is Sun Lingfeng's enlightenment coach. When the team was first established, the old man came to the team to guide the children. "After living for a week, I don't want to leave. I think they will need me tomorrow, and they will need me the day after tomorrow." The 72-year-old coach, who lives at the base for 300 days a year, has become a "grandpa" for the children.
Not as strong as Sun Lingfeng, "Grandpa Master" is often poked in the center. Once back to the dormitory, a piece of cantaloupe was placed on the table. "This is a small team member who quietly put me here. He said that I didn't eat it and took me a piece." Zhang Jinxin taught children of various personalities. In the future, most of the children in this team will be observant, and family reasons make them understand very early. Every time at this time, he feels that it is his responsibility to figure out a way out for them, "Now there are three or four children who can be transported to the professional team, and other children can transform into coaching or engaging in baseball in the future. I hope they can use their expertise in baseball. Entering university, so it is particularly important to study. "
Before dinner, Zhang Jinxin summoned the team members to gather, and the children stood in four rows in the order of height, "report", 10 in the first row, 9 in the second row, 9 in the third row, and 10 in the fourth row, "Add up how many?"
The children scrambled to answer, "38 are right, 42 of us, how many of them are missing?"...
The children who are not arithmetically bright enough have won high light on the court. In July 2017, four children of the "Strong Angels" were selected into the national youth baseball team, went to Japan to participate in the famous international youth baseball game PONY Cup, and won the growth group champion; in August of the following year, the team was invited as the Asia Pacific One team participated in the 2018 PONY World Championship U11 Bronco group finals. This is the first time in the history of Chinese baseball that it was directly invited to represent the Asia-Pacific region in international youth baseball events, refreshing the history of Chinese sports. In December 2019, as the only team other than the host city, Shenzhen, the team was invited to participate in the "Third Cross-Straits Student Baseball League" U10 group competition held in Shenzhen, and won all Individual awards.
"Even if they don't play careers in the future, but their presence will be a wealth for Chinese baseball. Baseball is by no means a niche market in China. In the future, it will definitely become a sport of great concern. All I have to do is keep planting seeds , To help the early arrival of that day." Sun Lingfeng admitted that he was breathing a sigh of relief for the status quo of the project, and it was this tone that made him feel "required", "My gain is much greater than the effort. For these children, I have learned To you, so you change from a tire dragged by someone to an engine, and you can take someone else away, isn’t that enough?"
Newspaper Beijing, June 1st
China Youth Daily · China Youth Network reporter Liang Xuanwen and photo source: China Youth Daily