"He wants to win, which is good," goalie mindset coach says. "You get a lot of athletes out there and it’s almost like they don’t care."

“There’s no crying in baseball!” Article content

That’s a memorable line from actor Tom Hanks in the movie A League of Their Own when he was playing Jimmy Dugan, the fictional manager of a team in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, after one of his players broke down in tears while he was berating her for a mistake. Article content Article content

There is crying in baseball, however, as we saw after the Toronto Blue Jays suffered a heart-breaking 5-4, 11-inning loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 7 of this year’s World Series.

I was thinking of Hanks’s movie line when I saw the video of goalie Jakub Dobes in tears during an

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