Maryland baseball practice a few years ago ...
@RJM very true picture. Early spring baseball around these parts is freaking cold. I swear March is colder than Dec in the Mid-Atlantic
@ReluctantO'sFan posted:@RJM very true picture. Early spring baseball around these parts is freaking cold. I swear March is colder than Dec in the Mid-Atlantic
My kids grew up in SE PA. One year it’s 40 and windy. The next it’s 60 or 70. One year games are called for snow. Another year it doesn’t snow.
One year it snowed 18 inches. I came back from a business trip four days later. The snow was gone.
@RJM posted:My kids grew up in SE PA. One year it’s 40 and windy. The next it’s 60 or 70. One year games are called for snow. Another year it doesn’t snow.
One year it snowed 18 inches. I came back from a business trip four days later. The snow was gone.
Son's first home series in college was in early February 2013 in Martinsville, VA. We were about an hour away when we drove through snow flurries enroute to the stadium. Wife sent son a text message asking if the games were still a go. Answer - "Yes". Temperature at game time was about 38 F with occasional light flurries. By the middle of the 2nd game (DH) temperature was around freezing.
Junior year (2015) at WSSU, home opener (DH) is the day before the Super Bowl. Temperature at game time in the 40's. By the end of the first game, the sun had set and temperature plummeted. By the end of the 2nd game it was, again, close to 32 F. We were wrapped up in blankets and could not get warm. Took us forever to warm up once we arrived back at the hotel. The good thing that day was son hit a 2 RBI HR in the 6th inning of the 2nd game which proved to be the game winner.
What a bunch of Cali weenies!
The ARMY sent me years ago to Northern Norway(500 miles North of the Arctic circle). I packed all my Arctic gear and was off.
When I arrived it was colder in IOWA than in the Arctic!
I don't want to hear it.
I once went to an afternoon game at Candlestick. I dressed in shorts and a tee with sweats over them and a light ski jacket just in case. At various points of the game I was stripped to the shorts and tee or loaded up to wearing the ski jacket.
HS practice in the upper Midwest starts with warm up in the parking lot, if it's shoveled. If not it starts with the shoveling. I have coached games in blinding snow in late April and 75 degrees in March. Not that that's a good thing, but it's how it works.
I wouldn’t worry too much about California—we just looked on Life 360 app and looks like 2021 found a field to play at. Actually the kids will likely remember this year for some epic cross town battles between rival schools with no parents or umpires or coaches!
During youth baseball kids played a tournament in a snow storm. Moms ran laps around the field between innings to stay warm, led by coach's wife who was just as much a drill sergeant to the moms as the coach was to the kids. 