My Son left at 4:30 this morning to head up to his Summer Ball Team meeting in Fayetteville today. I think he is traveling through South Carolina about now. This is his longest solo drive. He meets his host family at 1:00.
We are very excited for him since this will be his first experience with Collegiate Summer Baseball. I understand that they have a couple thousand fans at most of the games topping out around 4000 on July 3 when the team has a fireworks display. All the players are required to go to the right field fence after each game to sign autographs until no one wants anymore.
It all sounds like such a great experience for a ball player. His mom and I will head up next week to catch a few games which begin on Wednesday. Two days of getting comfortable with each other and then game time!
Just got off the phone with my Son to check on his progress. He had stopped off at a rest area in northern South Carolina, turned on the radio and heard an advertisement about the Florence Redwolves and their season opener against the Fayetteville Swampdogs inviting everyone to come out and enjoy the Fireworks. Pretty cool!
Anyone else have their player off playing this summer? I know that there have been threads about Collegiate Summer Ball in the past, and I can't recall anyone not having had a wonderful experience. I am hopeful that my Son's experience as well as any other posters that have their Sons off playing will be awesome as well.
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