Not a post about Major League Sports, but of girls fast pitch softball and a coach I knew.
We started helping out because our girls were on teams. For my last few years of coaching girls softball I was his assistant. We tried to instill some knowledge of the game, but our biggest task was to get young teen and pre-teen girls to have some fun playing ball.
We had many good players, but sometimes their interests headed away from the ball field. We took this in stride and hoped that the girls had some fun. Funny I can’t seem to remember how many years I coached with this man, but I think it was 3. They were good summers.
Through the following years, we failed to keep in touch, even though my youngest was friends with one of his step-daughters. When we did see each other, it did bring back some of the those good memories. For years he walked in the “Walk for Life” to remember my dear wife. He will no longer walk that walk, he lost his own battle to the very opponent he walked against. I will miss the occasional meetings at Wally World or Taco Bell. I will miss a friend. Children will miss a father. A wife will miss her husband. And Cancer takes one more…
Sorry to hear about your friend!
Yes, as am I! But glad to know you had some fun memories even if you lost track over the years. My mother has been helping coach softball in some form from little league to high school for a good number of years. She doesn’t even know how many.
Sorry to hear that. What a horrible, awful, not-even-enough-bad-words-to-describe-it disease.
Do you think he could coach boys? Maybe Drake would like to play. Mom could cheer him on…Things are better up there.
draclet sure why not. Your mom always kept score. I think she actually liked doing that. She learned a little about the game that way, and it people always stayed away from the person with the score book. 😉