I'm sure most have seen this, but here's the best capture of tee-ball ever... Total Chaos!
Baseball is a pretty serous business here, but I loved the tee-ball years - although I don't remember it being that out of control.
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My son has never forgotten his first t-ball at-bat, he hit it over the "fence" they had set up just past the bases, but they made him stop at 1st base.
We reminded him of that when he was hitting HRs in high school.
On my youngest son's t-ball team, it took us several games to get the kids from all diving on top of the ball & each other & creating a pile- like the video. We finally managed to control it, but there was 1 kid who kept doing it, to the point that he'd tackle & wrestle the ball away from whoever had it with all his strength. After weeks of dealing with this, we realized once he got the ball, he was holding it up his face to sniff it- he just liked the smell of a new baseball, lol. So we came up with the idea of giving him a brand new ball to keep in his pocket during games. He never piled on teammates again, when he felt the urge, he'd just pull the ball out of his pocket & sniff away.