Son's 1st HR (practice)

Congratulations, Coach. I know that's an awesome feeling. Enjoy it. Your little slugger will be as big and as old as the other players you coach in what will seem like the blink of an eye, but neither one of you will ever forget his first HR.

Your post gave me chills ( the happy kind,...ya know the same kind I get when I hear the national anthem ) coach/dad!!!

Savor the moment,...its such a great one!!!

High five to the slugger!!!!!
( theres just something unique and special about a homerun grin, isn't there? )

( I hope he kept the ball!! Have him write the date on it, in his handwriting,...you both will cherish this later, I promise!! )

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Originally posted by Pat H:
Yesterday my son hit his 1st HR (dead center "It went over???!!!!". "I did it. I hit a HR!!!". As he crossed home plate he jumped into me. The feeling that came over me was unexplainable.

Right now there's one happy 9 yr old running around my house.

Bet your son is pretty happy too!!
Congrats!! Great feeling!

Congrats Pat H,

My son hit a few in practice last year but none in the games. This year we are playing on all 200-235 ft fences. He hit his first game HR this year (240 ft) in a USSSA tourney. We had to lower one of the parents with a tow strap into a creek to get it, but it was worth the wet pants and gooey feet.

gogolf,
I actually wondered how far it was? i believe our fences are around 200, they are 6 ft fences. I just hope he takes the same approach in a game....don't try to hit the HR, just try to cut the ball in 1/2. (with the proper mechanics of course)

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Originally posted by Pat H:
I was putting him to bed and I looked at his mirror. There was a sign on it that read "My goal is to be a professional Yankee player".

Clearly he's exceptionally bright as well.

Congrats dad!!

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We had to lower one of the parents with a tow strap into a creek to get it, but it was worth the wet pants and gooey feet.

Priceless! Congratulations!

Great story,
I am the fifty year old father of a great son who will be heading to Boston College to further his academic and baseball educations next year. I remember the first "real home run he hit". Well it was real for him anyway. We were in the back yard at around six years old. I was pitching some whiffle balls to him. He turned on one put it over the roof of the house and the look of joy and excitement on his face is something I will never forget. He has hit many home runs since then but I remember seeing in his eyes on that first one, hey I like this and hey I can do this and I am going to keep doing this. Well he has worked hard at every aspect of his game and at 18 years old hitting is as important as eating to him. (probably cause we didn,t feed him if he didn,t hit.....LOL) But today he has learned to hit home runs. Yes you can learn this. For him it is finding his feel and putting a good swing on the ball. It takes a little time to find it each season but it always shows up. In his senior year he already has four in three games. This past saturday he had two. The first one he missed it and it still carried and went out at 385'. The second one was what every hitting coach hopes to see (he hits lefty) kept his head down good quick hands and drove a ball about 450' over the left field fence. The ball landed in the woods and one of the nice Mom's on the team said I have to get that for him. My response was please don't bother. He will thank you, appriciate your efforts then throw it into our bucket of balls. Well I was almost right. The kind Mom found the ball after about twenty minutes, brought it to him and he thanked her.Then he proceeded to drop it in the team bucket.
He did truly appriciate it. But he has been coached to act like he has done it before. ( I just wish he put it in our bucket.) He has done it before but he chooses to log them each his own way. Some of our favorite conversations start with hey Dad rember the one I hit in.... I hope you get to see all the home runs your boy hits. They are all special. That first one though boy can it open the door for some great future moments.

Have fun it is the best ride you may ever be on.

That's a great story. My son was 8 last year when he hit his first home run. When he got up to bat the next time, I looked at him from the third base coaches box and said, "don't even think about it."

Sure enough his helmet spun on his head he swung so hard at the first pitch. Then he smiled at me and took his regular swing from then on out.

I went out in the dark that night to measure it at 156'

Sounds like you got yourself a "smaller" papi there.

Not that it's as good as the first, but my son just hit #2 off another one of our coaches Saturday. It's great when a young kid experiences the results of all the extra work he/she puts in.

One of the best things about what's happening with my son is that the younger kids on the team are seeing this and want to emulate it. So when they ask, "How did you do that?", my son answers, "Extra practice".