Put me in, coach!

Baseball season has officially arrived here at Rota NAVSTA. We're constantly on the go with practices and games, and the boys are having a lot of fun. Because it's such a small community here in "Mayberry," leagues have few teams and a very wide age range. For example, both of the boys' leagues have only three teams each, so in order for all the teams to play every week, one team has to play twice. The girls' softball league only has two teams. Guess it's not hard to figure out who they're playing every week, huh?

This was taken on opening day. The color guard marched out onto the field with the Spanish and American flags (as well as the Navy flag), and the anthems for both countries were played.


I LOVED seeing the American flag flying as it's a rarity here.


All the teams gathered in the outfield and made their way to home base, where they shook hands with the base skipper, who threw out the first pitch. "M" plays for the Mets. He's the one right smack in the center, totally posing for the photo.


."M" is in the 7-9-year-old league.


"M" saw me with the camera and automatically froze and posed. I think I'll have to be a little more discreet with photo taking as I don't think his coaches would be thrilled if a ball got past him while he was posing for photos.


"D" plays for the Athletics. He's on the far left, the one who needs to have a sandwich or two.


"D" is playing in the 10-12-year-old league, however, I'm told there are a few 9-year-olds as well as a 13-year-old on the team. Long story short, some kids had to move up in order to have enough players for the league, and I don't think there's a league for kids over the age of 13. Evidently most of those kids play on the high school team.


On second, hoping to make it home.

Yep, baseball season has arrived, and I'm sportin' the farmer's tan to prove it!