Led by its founder and Executive Director, Walter Beede, Baseball Process shares the expertise that can only come from a baseball lifer. “As a young student-athlete, I was always the last player picked. Whether it was the school yard at recess or little league, I was horrible! Yet somehow, from the age of nine, I started on a fifty-one-year journey in baseball. I learned the old-fashioned way, through failure and hard work.”

Walter understands THE PROCESS as a mentor who has helped more than 700 athletes from across the country over the last twenty-five years. One who has developed an extensive network of coaches and MLB scouts.

He understands THE PROCESS as a coach with over twenty years of head coaching experience at the high school, travel baseball, and NCAA Division 3 levels.

He understands THE PROCESS as a parent whose sons both played college baseball, Kyle at LSU–Eunice and LSU–Alexandria and Tyler at Vanderbilt.

And Walter understands THE PROCESS as someone who lived the MLB amateur draft three times over: twice with his son Tyler, New England’s only two-time first-round pick in the history of the draft, and once with his own experience.

Because that kid who was picked last, who was cut or not selected four separate times between nine and fifteen years old, learned the lesson that baseball was teaching. Failure is not about falling; it is about not getting back up and trying—again and again and again.

By the time he graduated high school, Walter had earned a baseball scholarship to Arizona State University and was a thirteenth-round selection of the Chicago Cubs in the 1981 MLB amateur draft.

The decision he made as a young man over forty years ago led to the message he has spread to student-athletes for decades: trade athletic excellence for academic opportunity.

Start learning THE PROCESS.