TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME

Ah the warm weather has been absolutely amazing. It makes me miss softball. I do not have a memory more vivid than a warm afternoon out on the softball field surrounded by friends and something that I sincerely enjoy doing and also something that I am pretty good at. I was fortunate enough though to go to a park in Winston-Salem that had a vacant field and just throw with one of my friends and do some soft toss. It has been about a year and a half that I have even stepped foot onto a softball field but I noticed even just playing catch and hitting for fun I still haven’t got out of my softball routine. Every time I had a ground ball hit to be in the outfield I would round it and come up with a big crow hop and gun it home. Even when I was hitting I could still feel myself doing things wrong, like rolling my wrist over too soon or something of that nature. I guess I will never lose any of my softball smarts. I hope in becoming a coach one day. If not for a travel team then for my daughters team (if I have one) or a recreation league at a local elementary school.