While I didn’t grow up with wealth, I never wanted for anything. I think it’s really easy to forget that so much happens outside of sports that in the end directly contributes to a person’s success in sports. I also want to make a point about mothers and their impact on me and my baseball life. My mother deserves so much more than just three paragraphs in my weekly column, but at least it’s a start. To say that I wouldn’t be a baseball fan without my mother is a severe underselling of just how much of an impact she had on my sports life. Going to games was something we all did, and I think it really drove home that familial bond that I have with baseball and built the sense of community that I love so much about the game. Football and basketball were sports I watched with my father or my friends, but baseball was always a family thing. The other thing that I will always value about my mother was her approach to watching baseball. That continues to this day-even now it still makes feel very loved. She may have never been a full-blown fan of baseball, but she was a fan of us and so, therefore, she too loved the sport we loved. That didn’t stop her from coming to every little league game up through high school (she even came to many of my softball games after I switched over) and learning as much as she could about football (Ohio is a football state through and through), wrestling (I think she bruised my dad’s arm every single match), and baseball we knew that even if she’d never even touched a baseball, it was still important to her. As far as I could ever tell, my mother didn’t necessarily care about sports beyond the fact that my brother and I cared about sports. My father was always the big sports fan in our family, and he was a major guiding force in my sports life, but in a roundabout way my mother was just as essential to where I am today. My mother had a big impact on both my life and on my love for baseball. Welcome back to this week’s Baseball Musings! Let’s jump right into my baseball thoughts here on Mother’s Day!Įveryone: CALL YOUR MOM.
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