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Marcus Bonner

Baseball dad of Landon Bonner, the Hebron (TX) shortstop and Oklahoma-committed standout, who discussed youth baseball spending on the Chasing Baseball Dreams podcast.

Oct 9, 2026

11:39
How old was he when he started playing select baseball? And then when did you, when did you start coaching him and stop coaching him, and why?
11:48
W- he started playing, um, he started playing when he was five.
11:53
I mean, before, you know, it was, you know, he was n- always swinging and, you know, we wanted to, "Okay, we see a talent.
12:01
We see something that he likes here, maybe something here.
12:03
Let's, let's get him into sports." So we're originally from Chicago, Illinois, so um- W- we moved here in Texas, uh, when he was five, and so we just wanted to find a local team so that we can j- uh, so that we can join.
12:18
And just me being a dad, just wanting to be, you know, obviously involved in being my son's life, um, I just decided to go ahead and just to help assistant coach.
12:30
Um, and it pretty much, it pretty much started from there.

24 MINS LATER

36:53
So if you could go back in time to when Landon was 10 years old, what's one thing that you would do differently, and why?

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