“Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.”
~Yogi Berra

By Catherine Austin Fitts

It is remarkable what a talented entrepreneur can do when they decide to make a difference.

Dr. Michael Perry has a highly successful practice as a periodontist and is an active father in Oxford Mississippi. Busy as he is, he understands the importance of  kids in northern Mississippi having facilities to excel at sports. Oxford, home of University of Mississippi (Ole Miss), is a pretty sophisticated place. However, in the rural areas surrounding Oxford, the quality of facilities and opportunities can fall off pretty quickly.

So Perry built the Oxford-Lafayette Sportsplex. Giving kids access to play baseball and soccer meant finding ways of making the Sportsplex economic to use and maintain. Coaches and parents volunteer and LED lighting cuts costs to the bone.

• Oxford’s new sportsplex — State-of-the-art complex of 4 ball fields, 6 soccer fields making bid to become destination for high-level youth sports competition 
• Oxford-Lafayette provides first synthetic turf fields in North Mississippi
• Oxford-Lafayette Sportsplex brings new lights to to North Mississippi Youth

I was in his office the other day angling for a personal tour of the Sportsplex, and discovered one of the 13 year old teams that use their fields, the Yalobusha Giants, had just won a national invitational tournament.

Never underestimate the power of what can happen when children have the opportunity to be part of something excellent.

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