America's Favorite Pasttime

Growing up my life revolved around baseball. I was pretty good, and loved to play. In Junior High School my love of the sport wained when I started playing with people better than me and I found myself sitting on the bench more and more. So rather than working to improve myself, I quit. It still bugs me that I quit. I am not saying that I was 'pro' material, but I got a lot of joy out of playing baseball. I still do, but at a much slower pace--softball. It is also fun that my wife loves to play softball as well, and would have been pretty well recruited had she not made it clear to her High School coach that she was going to BYU. Some would say (myself included) that she has a better throw than me, particularly her accuracy. It has been fun getting out in the yard throwing with her.

Well now it is my kid's turns to play America's favorite past time, and for the past couple weeks we have been going out and playing catch with them. We are also sleeping with the foot of our mattress slightly elevated as we break in a couple newer gloves.: