Recycling some old stories

I finished another edit of my novel. The title is A Teacher First. Final decision, as they say on 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire'. I really like the title now, whereas I was never really comfortable with the original title, Bring Back Coach Zim! I'm pretty satisfied with how the novel is looking.

I've also been doing some other writing lately, sort of. It's more like recycling some old writing. I've taken a short story I wrote about twelve years ago and rewritten it. It was poorly written but a pretty good story, in my opinion. One thing I've learned since then is how to tighten a story up. Now it's still a good story (I hope) and less poorly written. It'll be ready to submit to a few magazines by this weekend. I haven't had a short story published in two or three years, mainly because I haven't really written any for two or three years.

And I've wanted to write a few articles to submit to magazines but have been too busy (lazy). So I've taken a couple of columns that I wrote but never submitted to the Sanford News, tweaked them a little, and sent them out. I don't have a lot of faith in them, but you never know. They aren't bad, just not the best I've ever written.

I'm reading a book called Bang Your Head, about the rise and fall of heavy metal. It's good, I'm really enjoying it. And I've been reading a series of mystery novels, the Bernie and Chet series by Spencer Quinn, which I believe is a pen name for the author Peter Abrahams. Bernie is a private detective and Chet is his dog, and the stories are told from Chet's point of view. It's a good idea and really well done. I've read three of the books so far, I think there are a total of five.

Deciding on a title for my manuscript

I've only posted here once since September, which is not good. But I do have an excuse because I was writing my new novel. Don't believe me? Well, here it is: 

I finished the first draft last month and it will be ready to go by the end of the week. Where is it going? I'm not sure. Send to agents and publishers, or self-publish and try to market it? That's the question. It's really good and I like it a lot, so I'm happy with it.

Another question is the title. Here's a short description of the story:

Jim Zimmerman was once the best high school baseball player the state of Maine had ever seen. Now middle aged and known to everybody as Coach Zim, he’s the winningest high school coach in state history and everybody’s favorite history teacher. When he is unexpectedly fired from his coaching job by the school principal, a former teammate still harboring jealousy from high school, Coach Zim faces a future without baseball for the first time in his life.

 Before long a former player offers Coach Zim a dream job with the Red Sox organization. While pondering this job he finds himself helping a gay student who is being bullied and discovers that, inconceivable as it might seem, his work as a teacher may be more important than his work as a baseball coach.

That is a short and not very well-written description, but it gives an idea, at least. My problem is, do I title it Bring Back Coach Zim! or A Teacher First. It's been Bring Back Coach Zim! for a long time, but I just read a line in the story and thought A Teacher First sounded pretty good. So I'll decide soon. Any comments would be appreciated.