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When you’ve been coaching the same team for close to four decades, when you’ve won more than 600 games, when you’ve been inducted into the Colorado High School Activities Association Hall of Fame, you just can’t avoid the questions about retirement. And, Eaton High baseball coach Jim Danley has his answer down pat, “I think as long as I get up every day and can’t think of another things in the world I’d rather be doing, I’ll probably continue for a while.”

Danley is credited with turning Eaton into a baseball town, and turning the team into champions. But, he admits it wasn’t always that way. “That first year we were 1-23”, he laughs, “and we probably didn’t deserve the one we got. We have definitely come a long way.” When Danley refers to Eaton, he says, “It’s almost like Mayberry and I love that. The support of athletics is much like it was when I came here 38 years ago, and it’s a distinguishing feature. I never wanted to leave because I never found a place I preferred.”