Like thousands of other teams across the country, the Little League team on which my son plays \u2014 and which I coach \u2014 was engaged in a season-ending tournament this weekend.\u00a0 We won our first game yesterday on a soupy field, and the boys were flying high.\u00a0 In our second game, against the best team in our division, we played as well as we have all season.\u00a0 It was a back-and-forth game, as we exchanged the lead with the other team.\u00a0 But, alas, as the time limit came up and other teams waited anxiously to take the field, we were behind.<\/p>\n
And so our season ended, not really as a baseball game should, decided by a clock.\u00a0 But the boys held their heads high, and there was nary a tear.\u00a0 I think that\u2019s because they knew that they had played their hearts out and that they were poised to defeat a superior team.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve been a youth pastor, directed camps and retreats, coached teams, and led a Cub Scout den, but never have I experienced such a wonderful, unified, joyous group of kids.\u00a0 Plus, I coached with two other dads with whom I got along famously.<\/p>\n
It was an honor to be their coach, and I will miss them.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Like thousands of other teams across the country, the Little League team on which my son plays \u2014 and which I coach \u2014 was engaged in a season-ending tournament this weekend.\u00a0 We won our first game yesterday on a soupy field, and the boys were flying high.\u00a0 In our second game, against the best team […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,25],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-3313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","category-parenting","tag-baseball"],"yoast_head":"\n