The end of summer baseball.....need some hobby ideas :)

Sounds like you've made lots of great memories!  When that time comes for us, I am thinking a houseboat would be a fun way to spend summer days and nights.   

Well, I thought the same thing. However my son now plays in a Men's league. So I have baseball to watch, and it is close to home. Kind of the best of both worlds. Monday through Saturday times free. On Sunday Church then a single or DH. Then back home. He is a two way player now as well. 

I think a seaside cottage or a cabin in the woods needing some restoration might be the way to go!

CatsPop posted:

I think a seaside cottage or a cabin in the woods needing some restoration might be the way to go!

CatsPop....thanks for the ideas.  Parents have a cottage and a boat....already spending more time than I used to there....should really be able to work on the tan next summer lol

Are you close enough to Great Lakes team to host a couple of kids?

Do what I thought I was going to do, watch Bob Ross videos and teach yourself to paint...

"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring."

--Rogers Hornsby

When your kids stop playing you find you have time to do the things you want to get done without a time squeeze. Getting things done and without time pressure is a hobby in itself.

@Go44dad has the right idea!  Nice setup!

Chasing90 posted:

@Go44dad has the right idea!  Nice setup!

This is a new endeavor.  Sparked by son being able to drive himself wherever he needed.

You can join our American teams in New Zealand and Australia. In December it will warm 90º.

We play the National and State teams from New Zealand, Australia and Japan. Great group of Coaches.

Bob <goodwillseries24@gmail.com>

Only 1 kid.  After 14 years of baseball  - traveling the greater midwest for the last 5 summers  - my son stopped playing baseball (and football) when he got to college - a D3 school he chose partly based on the possibility of playing baseball.  He chose to play rugby.  I am very happy with with that as I played rugby for years and then refereed for about 15 year. 

To fill the gaps I went back to umpiring - something I did in college and HS.  Have enjoyed it throughly.  Did about 80 games this spring and summer.  

You like baseball and you have some knowledge of the game -- take the plunge and become an umpire (but you'll discover how much of the game you don't really know)

Naturally, all areas are different.  A lot of the people in my area who's kids have stopped playing take up golf.  It is never too late to start if you have the desire and patience.  I love playing golf and am a golf coach as well.  However, we seem to have a lot of middle aged to seniors taking up biking.  We have a lot of new bike trails in my area.  In my neighborhood, they are now going on bicycle trips together.  Finally, I don't know if you have a motorcycle but we have more than our fair share of those kind of bikers.  They do runs all over the state and a run up the Great River Road out of Alton in the fall when the leaves are changing colors is something.  

I retire after this year.  My wife and I are going to travel to places we want to see.  We've done all of the trips where the kid played in the summer and then in college.  Now, we are going to head to places like Mackinac Island.  I am going to walk on the deck of the U.S.S. Constitution.  I am going to walk Gettysburg Battlefield.  There are plenty of things for us to do in our "golden years."

CoachB25 posted:

I am going to walk Gettysburg Battlefield.  

At the museum there, we hired a private docent to drive our car throughout the Battlefield for about 4 hours as I recollect.  It was a 3 day battle in a very large area.  It will be a long walk

During one of our Area Code tryouts on the East Coast I visited Gettysburg and very impressed with the video show on 20' screen of the battle. A very remarkable study of our history.

Another beautiful area is few minutes away from Santa Rosa is Ft Baker under the Golden Gate Bridge in Marin County.

Bob