The Blue Team

Mr. B. and Mom head for Grandma’s in Fort Worth this morning while I get the weekend off–after today’s parents meeting of the Blue Team, Mr. B.’s new tournament little league team. It’s a double-elimination tournament of little league teams all over the Austin area with some interesting new rules: no coach pitch, four balls and you walk, and stealing bases is allowed, presumably only when okayed by the coach. Mr. B. is the only ex-Scrapper, but he knows five other players from previous teams he’s been on, the Muckdogs and the Rangers. With the two-losses-and-its-over rules, the most playing he’s liable to see will be the two-and-a-half weeks of practice before the games begin. But he’s looking forward to it.