He was best known as the lacrosse coach at Cohasset High School, but on Saturday mornings at the Good Sport sporting retail store in town, Stew Curran’s unofficial title was greeter.
Unlike many in that profession, whose job is to welcome customers into the store and into a comfort zone, Curran saw it as one of his duties to nudge young athletes out of their comfort zones.
And he relished the role.
“An 8-year-old would come up to the counter with his father and a baseball glove,” said Austin Lyne Sr., the store’s owner and a good friend. “Stew would come right over and say, ‘You want to put that baseball glove back.’ Then he’d walk the kid over to the lacrosse wall and say, ‘This is the sport you want to play.’
“He always did it in a friendly manner, but I think over the years he turned a lot of kids off of baseball.”
