Softball Season with the color Pink

Youth's learn to play the sports that help define their lives. They begin to learn the motor skills to perform the sport to their very best, but the sport becomes something more than just learning a skill. Sports teach us teamwork, determination, learning how to lose, learning how to win, learning how to react when you win or lose, how to listen to authority, how to become the authority, how it feels to build a team that succeeds, and how it feels to build a team that wins not only in the sport but with each other. Sports help define our lives, and that's one reason why I enjoy photographing them.

Pink Glove

I think the pink glove makes this shot.

Line 'em Up

Another shot from yesterday's softball game

It's alright to cry

I've seen the movie A League of Their Own about 100 times. It's one of those movies that captures my attention if channel surfing and find myself watching it till the end. One of the lines in the movie delivered eloquently by Tom Hanks has become part of my vocabulary "there's no crying in baseball?!?!" No one can deliver that line better than Tom, so why did I think I could do it? I couldn't help saying those words when a young athlete struck out today and cried. I had my long lens on the camera and was quite a long way from the girl (she didn't hear me), but I felt so bad saying it. One of the parents looked at me and said "I was going to say it, but I stopped myself." I know it was on other guys minds and I wasn't alone. I learned a valuable lesson today.

Today I learned that It's alright to cry in softball.