Mark Maus is part of Rams baseball trio with combined 700 wins.
HAMILTON — Brion Treadway wasn’t asking him to join the Badin High School baseball coaching staff because the program needed the help, or because there was a lack of support in the dugout.
Treadway invited former coach
Mark Maus to be an assistant to make the Rams better.
There was another reason, too. He wanted him around because he simply felt “Mark belonged here. As far as a program goes — year in and year out — he built Badin baseball to have certain expectations.
“I just always felt like he deserved the opportunity to end his career on a positive note at Badin,” Treadway added.
Though the storied area powerhouse had been in good shape for over three decades, Treadway
— Badin’s current head coach and recent athletics hall of fame inductee — figured bringing a key piece from the past back to the diamond wouldn’t be all that bad of an idea.
“I remember meeting with Mark to try and get him on board last season,” recalled Treadway, a 1997 Badin graduate and standout pitcher who was coached by Maus.
“It just didn’t work out. I felt there was a little apprehension.”
The two revisited the conversation prior to the start of the current season, and Maus said he was “all in.”
Maus, a 2008 Badin Hall of Fame inductee, is now part of a team that is 26-1 heading into its Division II district semifinal against Reading on Tuesday at Alumni Field.
“I had to call him back up and ask if the offer was still there,” said Maus, who noted helping his son Reid internet broadcast Badin’s two regional contests last season for Chatterbox