Case Study: Long Island Baseball Team

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The situation I will be sharing of where the power and prestige theory was presented is my summer baseball coaching job. This past summer I hired as an assistant coach for a 17 year old Long Island baseball team. The organization that the team was affiliated with was an organization that I have been involved with since the very beginning of my baseball career. Besides myself there was also another college baseball player that attended and played baseball at a local division III university, hired to be the other assistant coach and a local high school was hired as the head coach. During the summer league it was my job as well as the other assistant coach, Tommy, to run practices and help out during games. At practices Tommy and I would lead

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