AboutBaseball runs deep in the Clarke family. For 35 years, my dad spent his career coaching baseball for four different schools, from high school to junior college. My brother followed in his footsteps, as he has been in the baseball coaching business for 12 years. I decided to take a step back from baseball during my junior year of high school. I had every intention to get my CPA license and go to work in public accounting. My dad had been retired from coaching for a few years when he found real estate and eventually founded his own brokerage. After my freshman year of college, he encouraged me to start the prelicensing course. As an 18-year-old who knew nothing about selling houses at the time, I laughed and agreed only if he paid for it. The following summer I took and passed the real estate exam. Who knew this was going to be my form of coaching—helping, teaching and coaching buyers and sellers through the largest and most complex transactions of their lives?