It's 9AM
We’re going ot Cooperstown, she said.
#10 got invited to join a team with 8 kids we never met
We’ve played against and beaten 2 of them.
Plus 1 kid we’ve played beside before.
She asked the Coach how he knows Us/10.
He said we beat them at Kessler Park.
His regular team.
And 10 made an impression.
A dinger for the first pitch at lead off position does that.
First batter, first throw, first home run, and a score of 1-0 three seconds into the first inning.
They almost tied it up in the second.
But it was another impression move.
10 plays Center Field and hosed their runner on third when he tagged up on a pop fly and tried to beat the throw home.
He did not.
We celebrated the W, moved on to the finals and lost.
Which is how it happens some times.
A team sport made up of individual moments and individual performances that add up to a Win.
Or not.
Sometimes you can do your very best, and one mistake takes the game out of your hands.
I’ve tried to explain that before.
And making an impression and being invited to play with a good team at an out of town tournament in July teaches a better lesson than I ever could.
He likes playing with “our” team.
But he likes picking up with “new” teams too.
Especially if they’re better.
Or they have a better player that he can learn from.
Since he’s always played up, he’s almost always been learning.
Except he’s got that “zing” that natural athletic ability or special something that he picks up really fast, and adjusts and very quickly, his learning goes to being one of the best.
There are rankings for kids in baseball by their graduating class.
And he’s got projections to be pretty high up for the class of 2030.
But he plays with the class of 2029 most of the time, which can get confusing.
Until next year, when we drop down to play with his age group.
The difference between 13/14 and 11/12 can be a little much.
We see it with the kids who are turning 13 on our team now.
A head taller in some cases.
Pitching in the 70’s/80 mph range.
And 10 can hang, sure.
He works at it every day.
But sometimes hanging isn’t good enough.
Sometimes it’s good to show up and show out.
You never know who might be watching.
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