What does the AAU experience mean?

Rocket & Strike-em-out ---
Those were good sets of kids when they were young and I haven't heard anything but good reports about them since they've grown up. We were lucky to have those associations...and I hope the kids enjoy playing against one another in the future. Seems like most of those schools play one another sometime during their baseball schedules. Let's hope we can get 'em graduated from college and maybe on to the next level.

And oh how I remember those 102 degree days. My son was catching and when he got in the car after the games, he smelled like a bag of onions. Youth body odor has a smell all its own!

 

Our family, too, had to make the tough choice between regular church attendance and travel ball. From age eleven to eighteen, our son played pretty much full time from March through early December. Our pastor had a particularly hard time with weekend sports (besides us, a local soccer league had Sunday morning games). The guy talked to me constantly about taking a stand and refusing to let my son play on Sundays. I never could get him to understand why we felt we had to do it. I never felt good about it, but I couldn't take the opportunities away from our son. We did the next best thing by having a short "Outdoor Sunday School" before each Sunday game.
We did make tough choices. God bless my wife (son's step-mom) for putting up with it and even getting into it. She could have made life tough around the house, but she saw how much our son loved it and how much he was growing as a player.