Ok folks - it's summer time!!!!

If you would like to share what your son is doing with his summer, including if and where he's playing ball, please do so here!

My own son is playing in a Wooden Collegiate League in Nashville. It appears he's on a new team - River Rats! This league doesn't seem to update their site until about December, so I won't bother posting a link unless they happen to do so by the end of summer!

If you have a link as I know many of our parents do, please post so the rest of us can follow the players!

Also, if you want to share some experiences from summer ball, please do so.

Great idea Lafmom:

My son is playing for the Havasu Heat in Havasu, Arizona. It is a wood bat team in the
Pacific Southwest Baseball League in the NBC (National Baseball Congress). For a PA guy, he's finding playing in 112 degree heat "interesting"...but hey....at least it is DRY heat out there! He wondered why everyone looked at him strangely when he waited around to help "tarp the field" the first night after practices!
http://www.havasuheat.com/

Oh yes...if you check out the roster, you'll see that Bullwinkle's son is on the team too!

How apprapo....lafmom....

My son is playing for the Front Royal Cardinals in the Valley League:

http://www.frcardinalbaseball.com/bluto/sites/sports/sp...t_no=301&site_no=118

It was very eventful getting him there today I am sure luvbb or PAmom will recognize some of the following locations. I sent him from Cleveland and he was supposed to catch the Ohio turnpike 80E which turns into the the PA turn pike on 76 east. He never took 76 east and stayed on 80E until he felt he may be lost. I get the call "Dad have you ever heard of Snow Shoe Pa" I said what?????? Got a map out and this is near State College PA and on the way toward Harrisburg ....arrrrgh......

I had to retype his location into yahoo maps and replot the trip for him from Snow Shoe to Front Royal. He was 200 miles from his location. Got him on 99 south back to 76 east, which took him through Breezewood to 70 east. From there he has made his way to about 15 minutes now from final destination. Burned many cell phone minutes tonight

ClevelandDad,

Your son is on the same team as a friend of ours - Chris Vasami - and a former teammate of my eldest son.

Chris is a heck of a player - and has had a solid season with Elon and HighHardHeat's son.

Best of luck to Tyler!

itsinthegame,

Thanks for all the good wishes. Hopefully Chris and Elon can continue the fabulous run they have had this year. H3's son has had a fine freshman campaign. I will tell Tyler to send hello from Huntersville. BTW, I noticed that Huntersville is just North of Charlotte. Nice area there and the favorite part of my trip.

All the best to Darin this June and with his future baseball pursuits

Thanks CD

SNOWSHOE!!?? YIKES CD, he was in Nittany Lion country! Hope he picked up an "I love Joepa" sweatshirt while in town.

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"I love Joepa" sweatshirt while in town.

He is a Buckeye luvbb - I am sure no "I love Joepa" items were purchased

Great idea lafmom ~

thought about this the other day, all the college boys coming home for the summer, and here I am sending my son off for summer ball. . .

He's playing with Savannah Chain, along with his week-long trip to Oklahoma (top 20 juniors in the state playing in Sunbelt Classic). We drove him to Savannah yesterday, but he will be back in Atlanta next week for a few days (East Cobb) before leaving for Oklahoma.

CD ~ feel for you having to burn minutes and navigate from home. Hope he arrives soon!!

My son is playing in the KIT League, with the Farmington Firebirds.......

http://www.kitleague.com/

I am looking for a summer ball team. I am from Birmingham, Alabama. I am 18. I pitch and will play anywhere in the field. i have most experience at second base and center field.

CD - I'm so sorry to hear about Tyler's journey! I bet you all didn't know whether to cry or laugh! Glad he's finally there safe and sound!

Shelto - If you haven't posted in the summer ball forum, you might want to try that too! You might want to contact BamaBomber who's in north AL and might be familiar with some teams that could be a fit for you. Good luck!

Shelto - welcome to the hsbbweb

A place you may have better luck locating a summer team is in the Summer Teams Forum which can be found by scrolling up from this one.

Hi all!

BS will be playing for Troy, Ohio American Legion Post 43 this summer before heading to UK this fall. The team has several players who will be playing college ball this fall. They are off to 3-1 with their only loss to a 22u team. BS will do the bulk of the catching of a 60+ game schedule! BS will also get to play in the Tournament of Stars in Joplin, Mo. for the second summer for the NABF National Team. We are excited that he will get to team up with Oldsluggers son BK in that event!

Should be another busy summer and a summer of transition to the next level.

Good luck to everyone this summer!

Joe is playing for American Legion Post 164 from Boynton Beach Florida. Currently 8-2 on the year. They will be playing in the Annual Firecracker in Deland at Stetson University in a couple weeks.

D is playing for the Southern Illinois Bullets, an 18-U team with players from Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee. They will be playing tournaments in Dayton,OH, Memphis,TN, St.Louis,MO, Carbondale, IL, Evansville,IN and Clarksville,TN as well as tournaments at their home field in John A. Logan College in Marion, Illinois.

Sad to report that for the first time in a LONG time, I do not have anyone playing baseball this summer . In fact, as I mentioned to luvbb last night, I came to the realization that I have had someone playing baseball in the summer since 1982, when my oldest (29 years old today) entered T-Ball. That's a lot of innings between then and now!!

My almost-college-senior decided to forego summer ball so he could stay on campus and take a couple of courses. This way, he should graduate ON TIME next May. Tough to argue with that! And my middle son decided to officially retire from minor league ball rather than try to come back from injury. He seems very happy with that decision. He's finishing school and should graduate next March.

Soooo -- I guess it's time to pack away those nice folding baseball chairs we have, at least until next spring when we'll break them out for our final season of college ball. Where oh where does the time go?

lhpx2 - You can always head down to Nashville and share a spot with me!

I know I felt odd this memorial day, because it was the first holiday weekend I could remember since t-ball, my son wasn't playing baseball. We headed up and took in the Reds game though on Sunday to help with the adjustment!

Just think what you can do with your summer now - paint the house, do landscaping, remodel a room, visit inlaws........ or just head to Nashville!

Lafmom--

I LOVE Nashville, so I might just take you up on that offer... And let's hope Michael doesn't love it TOO much -- he's got important baseball to play!

Actually, not to hijack this thread, but you have a lot of interesting baseball being played in Lexington this week. Between the CWS regional and the prospect of Roger Clemons pitching a minor league start for the Legends, Lexington will be THE place to be for baseball. What will all those crazy basketball fans think of THAT?

Bags will be playing in the Great Lakes league with the Twin City Blue Claws. (don't ask me where they came up with that name)They are out of Twinsburg. We know the coach pretty well from Bags hooking up with them for tournaments at the end of the last 3 or 4 years.

CD- actually he was originally supposed to play for your old Team Ohio. L.B. said he could get him on the team, but, at the last minute said his coach said the team was full. Then his college coach got him on a team which he just signed on to yesterday, but when he got home he got a call from this Twinsburg coach so he called the other caoch back and asked if it would be all right for him to switch to the Twinsburg team. He was very apologetic and the coach seemed okay with it. In fact he said if things didn't work out with Twinsburg he was welcome back. I hope he didn't step on any toes, and his college coach understands. I told Bags to call his college coach and let him know what happened so he doesn't hear it second hand.