First T-Ball Practice

We signed the twins up to play t-ball in the city park department’s 3-4 year old league. It is an instructional league designed to teach the children the very, very basics of baseball. Only one practice was scheduled before the first game and it was for “organization”. This gathering of strangers found a small number of fathers, including myself, suddenly responsible for teaching the fundamentals of America’s game to short attention-span preschoolers. We quickly learned our children would pay slightly more attention to strangers than they would their parents, so we adopted each other’s kids. This fellow was teaching the boys to lay their glove down for grounders. While baseball was the topic, the diamond was the boy’s fascination. After practice, Pa asked Davey if he had fun playing baseball. He said “they have great dirt!”