ASDC is about cooperation, leadership and teamwork at the local and national levels. The lessons children learn on the baseball field concerning cooperation and teamwork will help make them the leaders we need tomorrow. ASDC is about friends and colleagues. Baseball is teammates that become lifelong friends. ASDC can be about sacrificing time, effort or money to serve a cause.
Baseball players can utilize a sacrifice bunt or sacrifice fly for the greater good of the team.
ASDC is about preventing caries. Baseball uses defense to prevent defeat. ASDC recognizes the accomplishments of members and celebrates their success at annual meetings. Sometimes there is sadness and reflection for ASDC members as we lose friends and colleagues, but fortunately new members join to share the journey. In baseball we may lose a game, a series or a championship, but the emphasis is on what was done right and how to improve for the next game or the next year.