The Day of Baseball, continued...

After Carter's teeball game, Kathryn and I drove to Aberdeen, MD to Ripken Stadium for the Little League tournament! This is the park that Cal Ripken built for minor league and little league teams. The kid I was watching is named Brady and he is an AWESOME ballplayer. He plays for a travel team called the Charlottesville Tornadoes and they play all over Virginia, with tournaments in other states on the East coast.

They are a hard playing team, defeating a team from New York 10-7. The New York coaches and parents had a complaint about nearly every play, but the funniest ones were about the base runners supposedly interfering with their second baseman's fielding. They kept shouting, "He's running in the basepath!" I started laughing and I almost went to ask them, "And where else exactly is he supposed to run?" Maybe in New York, runners don't run in the basepaths.

Brady played center field and caught every ball hit out there! He hit really well too!

There are about 10 little league fields at the park. This picture shows one of the really cool practice fields where there are four homeplates. That way 4 teams can warm up at the same time. You can also use the homeplates as first base if your team wants to practice plays at first.

This is the main little league stadium. It's a re-creation of Camden Yards! They even rebuilt the warehouse so that it really looks like the Orioles professional ballpark!

This is the main entrance to Ripken Stadium. What an awesome park! It's so cool that Cal Ripken built it! After Brady's game, we went to an Orioles game at Camden Yards!