from Clay Latimer with The Season and Game Changer: Three Ways to avoid Summer Burnout Players straggle off the field. Practices are listless. The quality of play in games is falling fast. Such are the symptoms of a team stuck in the summer doldrums, that time of year when the will to play melts in the searing heat. As another scorching summer drags on, baseball and softball coaches should take steps to ease the grind, said Londonderry (NH) High School coach Brent Demas, New Hampshire’s 2013 Coach of the Year. “You can’t run them ragged over a whole spring and…