This is a sure sign of spring.
A car passed last weekend on the way to the Middle School sign up location, and the most excited boy was strapped into the family truckster. His face was aglow, and he was wearing his glove! He is ready for baseball right now! There is a baseball lover if I have ever seen one.
Reminds me of a few little boys I knew that loved baseball, too, and one that is now 50 years old, and still loving it!
Little League starts kids out well, with instruction in not only the game, but in many fine things about life; character, courage, loyalty.
My younger brother had great coaches in his little league days. They were shining examples to the boys, and many of the parents (who needed a lesson or two), and I am so glad my brother was lucky enough to be on that team. (I still have all the newspaper clippings of his games)! Take a look at Si, always my "Yiddle Man" when he was on the Freeborn Electric Bears.
Do you recall a wonderful coach that you looked up to? Are you that sort of grown up now?
I am a Putnamaniac because another season of Little League and the character development of our future is right around the corner!
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