MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN, USA - When Bill Arce, former coach at Claremont College in the Los Angeles area and the beloved founder of ISG, planned his first clinic for European coaches, he probably didn't envision the that it would be embarking on its fifth decade of instructing coaches worldwide.

This year marks the 41st year that ISG Baseball has been following their founder's goal of making baseball better by making coaches better. Sometime in the 2025-26 clinic cycle for the group, the 29,000th coach will be taking notes at one of the clinics and picking up ideas to use in their next club practice session.

In 1985, Arce put together the first clinic in the Netherlands; this year the organization will conduct 15 clinics in cooperation with a country's official Federation. There were 17 coaches at the first clinic in Amsterdam; today over 500 coaches have attended clinics this year and there are still more to come.

The extent of influence for those 1/2 thousand coaches will be immeasurable within the reaches of each of their clubs. American historian and thinker Henry Adams once said: "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." 

Adams was probably thinking about ISG when he said that as the organization starts influencing their second million players!