In celebration that baseball is back...post your favorite Little League pic/stories

[iwantitiwinit]

1971 Stamford CT, Town Little League Championship Semi-Final, (I was on K of C), I was a 10 year old in a 10-12 year old league and scared shitless. Everyone had to play one inning. Team we were playing was 19-0 as were we and their pitcher was seriously like 6-2 and had struck out 14 by the end of fifth. Our pitcher was smoking too and it was 0-0. This was a time when Stamford, CT had great little league and Babe Ruth teams that had won several Babe Ruth US championships (they hosted many championships too) in the 50's and 60's. I had no chance of hitting this kid but my father had focused on teaching me how to bunt and really used to fire them in when we practiced. Bottom of the 6th we somehow get a guy to third base and I am up with 1 out. No one had much hope I would do anything other than either get hit by a ptich and killed or strike out looking. I bunt on the first pitch and we score and win. Unbeleivable. I don't think I had a true hit that entire year.

[JollyElm]

1971, you say? That would've landed your feat on a 1972 card...

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[earlywynnfan]

This is a great thread!

Here I am in little league. We played six-inning games, and our pitcher once struck out all 18 batters straight, a perfect perfect game.

I, on the other hand, have no stats to back this up, but I'm pretty sure I was the worst player ever to play in my town. If any kid was worse than me, I feel really awful for them.

But I turned it around as a dad, and on the very same fields I stunk up. Turns out I'm a phenomenal pitcher, at least in coach-pitch. I grooved them in so perfectly that every girl on my daughter's team would tee off on me. I hit bats so well that by the end of the season, the dads on the opposing teams would ask me to pitch to their kids so they could slug some, too.

[earlywynnfan]

Originally Posted by earlywynnfan

This is a great thread!

Here I am in little league. We played six-inning games, and our pitcher once struck out all 18 batters straight, a perfect perfect game.

I, on the other hand, have no stats to back this up, but I'm pretty sure I was the worst player ever to play in my town. If any kid was worse than me, I feel really awful for them.

But I turned it around as a dad, and on the very same fields I stunk up. Turns out I'm a phenomenal pitcher, at least in coach-pitch. I grooved them in so perfectly that every girl on my daughter's team would tee off on me. I hit bats so well that by the end of the season, the dads on the opposing teams would ask me to pitch to their kids so they could slug some, too.

Curse you, sideways picture!!

[vthobby]

Here you go Ken!

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[earlywynnfan]

Thanks!