Spring Baseball

Since I spent the winter asking Trace what was his favorite sport and he kept replying; "baseball" over and over, I decided to see if I could find a team for him to play on for the season and see if he still liked baseball best. Funny thing is, I enrolled him in both "machine pitch" and "coach pitch" baseball and we discovered very early on that he was WAY too advanced to play in the coach pitch league. I thought that machine pitch would be too hard for him, but he did great! Gone is the little boy that ran to the dugout instead of running to home plate! He had a great coach with this little team of beginners (red shirt team) and he really ended up doing great both at bat and in the outfield. He was usually placed as first baseman or short-stop and always got a base run at least when up to bat. After a longer-than-expected season due to rained out games for several weeks in a row, he decided that baseball is "his" sport and he is excited to try again next year.

Can't complain about the view!

One time, when he was up to bat, I was yelling at him to "put your elbow up!" He yelled back; "Look, I just got done with golf lessons where they told me to keep my elbow down, now you want me to keep it up? Sheesh, make up your mind!" Funny kid that one.