Stein’s Blog

Sometime in January of 2016, Maryville’s boys junior varsity and varsity basketball team went to Kansas City to play a Christian team made up

I think for most kids, the Fourth of July is a special time of the summer.  It’s the only holiday during the summer.  It’s

When I was seven years old, my parents, Bill and Arlene Steinmeyer, and their friends, Steve and Hilda Henke, made a major decision.  They

It was probably back in 1978 when I wrote my first blog.  In 1978, the term blog wasn’t used much.  If you wrote a

When I was eight years old, my mom died a week before the high school team played in the state tournament.  That team was

In the spring of 1973, I had just completed student teaching for Mrs. Helen Johnson.  Mrs. Johnson was retiring as the sixth-grade teacher at

I don’t know how true this might be, but back in the 1980’s I read where George Brett met with the Kansas City owner,

Coaching is a funny profession.  If your team wins, a coach can do a lot of things that are considered colorful.  If that coach’s

Sports are this pure form of competition and entertainment.  Nothing should ever get in the way of the beauty of sports.  Somebody forgot to

This is graduation weekend for Maryville High School.  My son, Sam, will be part of the 2018 class.  Sam wasn’t an impact athlete, but