Our dear lhpx2 and mother of three sons is now a grandmother to a second grandson!

Her oldest son just had the blessing of another healthy baby boy (they have one beautiful little boy already)! We'll continue to get baseball stories for decades from lhpx2 family!!!

Congrats Kathy and family!!!

Wonderful news!

very awesome

congrats

Congrats Grams!! I'm sure you'll do a wonderful job of spoiling and loving!

Thanks, everyone!

Yes, Connor David Mead was born on Thursday afternoon, about a week before he was due. All involved parties are doing very well at UT Medical Center in Knoxville.

Grandson #1,Owen, is now throwing everything in sight with his left hand. His two left-handed uncles are pretty excited. They want to start tying Connor's right hand down. His mom said it would make it hard to nurse, but they just told Connor to "man up." For sure, though, no breaking balls until he's at least 6 months old!

Again, thanks for the good wishes. We have been blessed.

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Grandson #1,Owen, is now throwing everything in sight with his left hand.

Kathy, That is really amazing! You'll have to change your screen name!

My great grandfather was left handed, my father in law, my nephew, and my son of course. So, perhaps I'll get a new little lefty too!?!?! He'll probably end up loving to play the oboe and play chess (no offense meant to oboe and chess playing folks!) and won't touch a baseball bat!

I wouldn't put the six month rule on Connor! You never know - he may be very mature and large for his age!

Hey, Char -- watch that oboe comment. Owen and Connor's dad is a professional oboe player (and not a bad chess player, by the way). He was also an all-state sprinter for 2 years when he was in high school. You really can do it all.....

Kathy, I knew that comment would bite me! LOL

Seriously, I would love to have a musical grandchild! Son would never pursue any kind of music and daughter gave up flute at HS. I always desired to have some musical ability myself and have tried to live it through my kids - which didn't work. So, oboe or whatever would be just fine with me! But.... I'm hoping he really, really likes baseball the best!!

Well, I can attest that there are many other instruments that are easier to deal with than the oboe... Frankly, I'd start with the piano and then go from there.

It does sound like your grandson COULD end up with the left-hand persuation. We shall see. Little Owen is obsessed with anything round. He is always throwing or kicking balls all around the house, and he kept dragging ESPN The Magazine over to me and as we turned all the pages, he would point out each and every ball he saw, from the tiniest to the largest. It was pretty amazing!I'm pretty sure his uncles will start "Baseball Boot Camp" with him pretty soon

Kathy - I think I've shared this story before. We talk a lot about living vicariously through our children with baseball and the pitfalls that creates for everyone. When my daughter was in first grade, I bought a piano. She was going to be a piano player! Did she want to be a piano player? No! Did mom want to be a piano player? Yes! LOL She took lessons for a year and insisted on quiting. She eventually went into violin and then flute. For a short while, I got my musician in the family! I've always said that one day, I'll learn myself. That piano lesson did stay with me as I raised my kids - just one of the times in my life my kids have taught me something!

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They want to start tying Connor's right hand down.

I know a certain then-12u RHP who tried this with his infant little brother....didn't work.

CONGRATS Kathy!!!!

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I've always said that one day, I'll learn myself. That piano lesson did stay with me as I raised my kids - just one of the times in my life my kids have taught me something!

But on the other hand, my middle son Dan bemoans the fact that he would like to be a better piano player and blames me because I "let" him quit too early. I don't know if there's any way to win

Thanks, Beez. Yeah, we joke about the left hand thing. In all honesty, apart from being a baseball pitcher, there aren't too many advantages out there in the real world for left-handers. It really is more of a curse than a blessing. Even in baseball, my two left-handers still complain that they would have really liked a shot at being a shortstop!

Congrats!