A lot of the topics posted on this site are very serious in nature so let’s change it up a little and have some fun today.
Please share throwback photo(s) of your son(s) and also include grade or age at the time of the photo.
Ready, set, go!
Thank you in advance for sharing. :-)
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#1 11U Summer: U trip AAA state back in 08, he came in to relieve his buddy Matt Olson who plays at Richmond now and threw 4 scoreless to win the game. Team Wilson AAA state champs...such a big deal back then.
#2 6U FallBall: He still makes this face...holding breath and used to always grunt...i think he still does.
#3 6U Fallball: One of my all time favs.
EDIT: I had to add some of him when he was little ..these others from y'all are great!
Batty67 posted:My soon to be 19 YO son at the plate, probably 2nd grade, and clearly after he just enjoyed an orange slushy.
I see the orange ‘stache on his lip. LoL
Batty67 posted:My soon to be 19 YO son at the plate, probably 2nd grade, and clearly after he just enjoyed an orange slushy.
Great pics. Love the batting helmet with chinstrap look. Baller.
Good idea. Here are a few to share:
Photo 1- About the time that he started playing T-ball, and his first MLB love were the Twins (before it became the Nats).
Photo 2: Rooting for the Nats after the team came to DC and the new stadium opened.
Photo 3: Spending time with Dominican and American players in Consuelo, DR on the amazing Home Run Baseball Camp trip organized by the one and only Coach Mac. Our son is third from the right.
Photo 4: Pitching in the Kyle's Kamp tournament, an event in DC/VA that raises money every year to help kids battling cancer.
I'm guessing 10u park ball - 2017 is the kid with the big grin and big gap in front
JCG posted:I think this would be 2008, 2009, 2010.
There aren’t many things better than an Icee on a hot, summer day.
First weekend of son's 13U or 14U summer season.....he's on the right. All 5 of those guys were all the same grade (2015) and all eventually went to D1's. From left...Kent St, Virginia, BGSU, Gardner Webb and BGSU....funny thing is, at 6'1, he's the tallest of those 5 now.
JCG posted:hshuler posted:JCG posted:I think this would be 2008, 2009, 2010.
There aren’t many things better than an Icee on a hot, summer day.
This is close.
That’s probably better. :-)
This is a great idea HSHULER. The top picture was about age 8. LSU wasn’t on the radar. He was all UGA then. A good friend was the coach and is HUGE LSU fan I guess it was destiny, haha. The bottom picture is from Omaha this past season. Unfortunately, it was from game 1 of finals against the Gators. We came up a bit short.
Go44dad posted:9yo I believe. May be first kid pitch tournament.
8yo Little League
Next two last summer.
Love the shades!
High school baseball. Jr year now a college frosh playing baseball.
Iowamom23 posted:Perfect timing. Working on graduation videos. Asked my dad, the family photog, for two pictures for the senior class album. He sent 300. Here's a couple.
Asked for two, he sent 300, now that's just awesome!
Sorry, it's s****r. 2019 is the taller kid in front of the goalie. This was probably 2008. The kid to the far right is the only boy who seems to know who Beckham is.
I'll play:
http://www.hsbaseballweb.com/about.htm Son in Highshool Senior year.
https://community.hsbaseballweb.com/clip/charles23 Senior year of College against Wabash
http://community.hsbaseballweb...efty-vs-case-western Freshman year College, one of his first starts
http://community.hsbaseballweb.../clip/c-settlers2013 Pitching for the Settlers in the Great Lakes League.
hshuler posted:Batty67 posted:My soon to be 19 YO son at the plate, probably 2nd grade, and clearly after he just enjoyed an orange slushy.
I see the orange ‘stache on his lip. LoL
He probably explained it helped him with quality ABs.
younggun posted:This is a great idea HSHULER. The top picture was about age 8. LSU wasn’t on the radar. He was all UGA then. A good friend was the coach and is HUGE LSU fan I guess it was destiny, haha. The bottom picture is from Omaha this past season. Unfortunately, it was from game 1 of finals against the Gators. We came up a bit short.
I think I was at that game. We live just south of Omaha and get to 3-4 games every year.
Waiting for the basketball game to start at UNC's Old Well. ~6 years old
High School Junior.
College World Series, 2006.
Coaching at his alma mater.
Prepster posted:
Waiting for the basketball game to start at UNC's Old Well. ~6 years old
High School Junior.
College World Series, 2006.
Coaching at his alma mater.
That’s quite a progression. Thanks for sharing!
Go44dad posted:Sorry to abuse the "post pics of your kid", but this just popped up under "memories" in facebook.
No such thing as pic-posting abuse on this thread.
Keep ‘em coming!
Okay - I'll play.
Cooperstown (2005) - he's first one on the left front row.
High School (Senior Year 2012) - Back row middle (#12)
Junior College (2013):
Can't seem to find pics from when he went on to a D2 University. Probably on my other computer.
Ah. I found them.
D2 Regional Playoffs:
D2 - On the big screen:
10 PONY Regionals, 12U with a crazy knuckler, Varsity Triple, and the present at UTRGV.
I just thought of something else. Send videos if you have them too. :-)
Not sure if this will work as it’s from a Tweet someone posted. My son is at the plate. The commentary, by the father of an opposing player, is priceless.
BIG rivalry game as the teams are adjoining towns.
https://twitter.com/rayteodora...%5E7100%7Ctwterm%5E0
I believe it was a 2-4 game at that point. Late in the game. HR put them up 5-4, which was the final score.
NYdad2017 posted:Not sure if this will work as it’s from a Tweet someone posted. My son is at the plate. The commentary, by the father of an opposing player, is priceless.
BIG rivalry game as the teams are adjoining towns.
https://twitter.com/rayteodora...%5E7100%7Ctwterm%5E0
I believe it was a 2-4 game at that point. Late in the game. HR put them up 5-4, which was the final score.
That’s stinkin’ awesome!
hshuler posted:NYdad2017 posted:Not sure if this will work as it’s from a Tweet someone posted. My son is at the plate. The commentary, by the father of an opposing player, is priceless.
BIG rivalry game as the teams are adjoining towns.
https://twitter.com/rayteodora...%5E7100%7Ctwterm%5E0
I believe it was a 2-4 game at that point. Late in the game. HR put them up 5-4, which was the final score.
That’s stinkin’ awesome!
Thanks. Nothing beats that dad’s comments. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve listened to it and laughed. The other team has always been superior in baseball, but things changed over the past couple of years. It was sweet to watch.
Dodgeball tournament, Pitchers vs position players “Omaha Challenge”
Shoveit4Ks posted:Dodgeball tournament, Pitchers vs position players “Omaha Challenge”
^One player who I would NOT want to be hit by playing dodgeball.
I love seeing all the photos! Am I the only one who got lost on Memory Lane as they searched old pics? It goes by so fast.
8U - 2012 One of my all time favs. He's no longer a catcher.
9u - 2013 Disney World.
14u Cary 2017 - Stealing 2nd (safe)
hshuler posted:I just thought of something else. Send videos if you have them too. :-)
LOL! I have literally hours and hours (if not days or weeks or months) of video on DVD. Wife recorded almost all of his HS games and all of the college games we attended. If I really want to go down memory lane all I have to do is dig out a video. It would probably take me a month or two to watch them all. Probably close to 50 DVD's. And that doesn't include some of his college games she never got around to burning to DVD.
FoxDad posted:hshuler posted:I just thought of something else. Send videos if you have them too. :-)
LOL! I have literally hours and hours (if not days or weeks or months) of video on DVD. Wife recorded almost all of his HS games and all of the college games we attended. If I really want to go down memory lane all I have to do is dig out a video. It would probably take me a month or two to watch them all.
All you have to do is pick one. :-)
hshuler posted:FoxDad posted:hshuler posted:I just thought of something else. Send videos if you have them too. :-)
LOL! I have literally hours and hours (if not days or weeks or months) of video on DVD. Wife recorded almost all of his HS games and all of the college games we attended. If I really want to go down memory lane all I have to do is dig out a video. It would probably take me a month or two to watch them all.
All you have to do is pick one. :-)
Yeah, but which one???? There's quite a few good ones (and a few we'd rather not live over again 
).
My favorite video of my 2017 CF. In the background you can hear one of his soccer teammates at the game yelling "I love soccer! Soccer legs! " or something like that.
Sorry about the camera work. The videographer (not me; I would have done a much poorer job) got a little excited.
In your face, fireballer!
smokeminside posted:My favorite video of my 2017 CF. In the background you can hear one of his soccer teammates at the game yelling "I love soccer! Soccer legs! " or something like that.
Sorry about the camera work. The videographer (not me; I would have done a much poorer job) got a little excited.
Nice web gem!
Goin_yard posted:Here is my son pitching in the 2011 Dixie Youth World Series and on the mound about 5 minutes before tearing his UCL in October 2016
Great pics!
How is his recovery process going?
FoxDad posted:hshuler posted:FoxDad posted:hshuler posted:I just thought of something else. Send videos if you have them too. :-)
LOL! I have literally hours and hours (if not days or weeks or months) of video on DVD. Wife recorded almost all of his HS games and all of the college games we attended. If I really want to go down memory lane all I have to do is dig out a video. It would probably take me a month or two to watch them all.
All you have to do is pick one. :-)
Yeah, but which one???? There's quite a few good ones (and a few we'd rather not live over again
You’re making this too hard. :-)
There has to be one, two or ten in particular that sparks feelings of nostalgia.
I'm loving this thread... Here is my contribution. I particularly like the last two because they are exactly one year (and 3 inches) apart. The first is his first travel ball tournament at 12.
Okay I will share a few, my favorite is the third one. He is the third guy from the right.
Goin_yard posted:hshuler posted:Goin_yard posted:Here is my son pitching in the 2011 Dixie Youth World Series and on the mound about 5 minutes before tearing his UCL in October 2016
Great pics!
How is his recovery process going?
It was long and frustrating for him. He didn't like his throwing protocol but he stuck with it. He only had a few issues where he felt discomfort in his elbow but he was assured that it was due to scar tissue. He isn't quite back to where he was with his velocity, but I think that is more mechanical than physical. He has one more scrimmage to throw in this weekend and if he does well he thinks he may get one of the starter roles.
Best wishes on a full recovery!
DALEX posted:
The follow through on the jump shot is perfect! :-)
Yep, that was 23 mos and he never played basketball! Being from Indiana, was a bit sacrilegious!
DALEX posted:Yep, that was 23 mos and he never played basketball! Being from Indiana, was a bit sacrilegious!
You were supposed to loop the movie “Hoosiers” continuously until he “understood” what being from Indiana really means. Ha!
Big Taco posted:Little Taco's 1st dinger:
WINNER!
Go44dad posted:Big Taco posted:Little Taco's 1st dinger:
WINNER!
Agreed!
Man, so many GREAT pics! I'm so sentimental as it is, add to that my daughter turned 18 TODAY!!!! Got me going through old pics and now my "allergies" are kicking in! LOL
DALEX posted:Man, so many GREAT pics! I'm so sentimental as it is, add to that my daughter turned 18 TODAY!!!! Got me going through old pics and now my "allergies" are kicking in! LOL
LoL
Thought I posted this yesterday so If duplicate I apologize. Lefty in 6th grade pitching middle school county championship game. 5 inning mercy rule shutout, and 8th grade parents went balistic because it was his first start of year. He was supposed to be an innings eater at the start of game, but they never got to him! Probably one of dads best baseball memories yet!
Here's mine - 9U pitcher and last year's 13U pitcher. Love the determination in his 13U face.
Dalex.....I grew up down the road from you....if thats Center Grove, IN? I’m from a little town called Edinburgh. I spent many Friday nights “cruising” the center grove/ Greenwood area. Went to prom with a center grove girl.
JCG posted:Baseball can be so damn cruel.
QAB!
stayfocused posted:Dalex.....I grew up down the road from you....if thats Center Grove, IN? I’m from a little town called Edinburgh. I spent many Friday nights “cruising” the center grove/ Greenwood area. Went to prom with a center grove girl.
Hey Stayfocused! It is CG, but i graduated from Indian Creek, 89' May have played against you, and I'm SURE we know some of the same peeps. I grew up in Nineveh, so small world, huh?!?
Yes small world! I graduated in 87. Indian Creek was literally down the road from us!
Ten years goes by really fast.
Great idea for a thread. So my oldest son started out a switch hitter when he was real young. Then he went to left handed hitter only by 8-9 years old, and all through high school. When he got to college he wasn't allowed to touch a bat as a RHP.
BTW - The high school picture was a dinger over the right field fence. Baseball dads never forget. I took the picture and heard it land in the woods with everybody cheering. ;-)
This is my knucklehead (college) son pitching in 40 degree weather in freezing rain with no sleeves. It was one of the coldest games I've ever been to. Yes, the Dartmouth first base coach is yawning in this picture. He is cold and bored. I told you baseball Dad's never forget!
MidAtlantic/Fenway - Great photos!
Fenway - The first base coach yawning in the photo is priceless.
10 years old, 8 years ago.
keewart posted:
First year of T-ball, high school, first year of pro ball
Nice hops!
Now, that’s awesome.
I like how he is looking at his target. Hopefully it was not the kid with the blue cap.
TMM_Dad posted:Around his fourth birthday...
Note the red arrow.
Winner, winner - chicken dinner.
Absolutely, hilarious!
the kid with the blue cap looks very angry. Maybe someone should have told him the batting glove goes on the other hand.
smokeminside posted:the kid with the blue cap looks very angry.
Gotta love the batting glove on the throwing hand, though.
MidAtlanticDad posted:smokeminside posted:the kid with the blue cap looks very angry.
Gotta love the batting glove on the throwing hand, though.
That’s literally a smorgasbord of hilarity all wrapped up into one moment in time.
MTH posted:Omaha 2010. The night before, JustBaseball told me it would feel like my hair was on fire if he got in the game. Boy, was that ever true.
Nice!
MTH posted:Omaha 2010. The night before, JustBaseball told me it would feel like my hair was on fire if he got in the game. Boy, was that ever true.
MTH, just noticed our boys share the same number and mascot. Pretty funny. And by the way, I felt way more than my hair on fire when mine was in that spot last June!! I couldn’t breath. Haha
hshuler posted:I don’t even have words for this one.
That is CLASSIC!!!
Over 2 million sold.
Or something like that. This is a picture of my dream team, the one based in our neighborhood. I got cut but was picked up by a team in another neighborhood that was sponsored by a small delicatessen/convenience store. It didn't have quite the cachet of McDonald's back then. This was my younger brother's team. He is standing on the right, in front of the coach. It is probably 1966 or '67.
TMM_Dad posted:Over 2 million sold.
Or something like that. This is a picture of my dream team, the one based in our neighborhood. I got cut but was picked up by a team in another neighborhood that was sponsored by a small delicatessen/convenience store. It didn't have quite the cachet of McDonald's back then. This was my younger brother's team. He is standing on the right, in front of the coach. It is probably 1966 or '67.
You definitely win the “Throwback Award.”
Can anyone top ‘66/67? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
Can't top it, but I do have a funny video.... 11u Fall ball. Coach told JW to run, but I guess the batter wasn't aware. His face is priceless. Slowed the video to show it.
MomLW posted:Can't top it, but I do have a funny video.... 11u Fall ball. Coach told JW to run, but I guess the batter wasn't aware. His face is priceless. Slowed the video to show it.
I think the batter pooped his pants. Ha!
hshuler posted:TMM_Dad posted:Over 2 million sold.
Or something like that. This is a picture of my dream team, the one based in our neighborhood. I got cut but was picked up by a team in another neighborhood that was sponsored by a small delicatessen/convenience store. It didn't have quite the cachet of McDonald's back then. This was my younger brother's team. He is standing on the right, in front of the coach. It is probably 1966 or '67.
You definitely win the “Throwback Award.”
Can anyone top ‘66/67? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
I found this photo among my grandmother's things recently, although she has been gone for 30 years. My step-grandfather loved baseball, especially the Detroit Tigers. I like to think he is in the picture somewhere.
keewart posted:hshuler posted:TMM_Dad posted:Over 2 million sold.
Or something like that. This is a picture of my dream team, the one based in our neighborhood. I got cut but was picked up by a team in another neighborhood that was sponsored by a small delicatessen/convenience store. It didn't have quite the cachet of McDonald's back then. This was my younger brother's team. He is standing on the right, in front of the coach. It is probably 1966 or '67.
You definitely win the “Throwback Award.”
Can anyone top ‘66/67? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
I found this photo among my grandmother's things recently, although she has been gone for 30 years. My step-grandfather loved baseball, especially the Detroit Tigers. I like to think he is in the picture somewhere.
Wow!
mmm1531 posted:Love this thread....this was my Grandfathers team, 1922. He is in back row 3rd from right. Fortunately I got to spend a lot of time with him as a kid. First man on right bottom row lived in the house beside me for his entire life.
1922? 
We have a new champion!
My dad was an avid photographer, and documented many of his experiences in WWII. He was 82nd Airborne, so the old photo album tells quite a story. Anyways, - not a picture of him, but a photo he took of the fellas playing a baseball game in Vittel, northeastern France, after the liberation of Europe and prior to transferring to Marseilles to return home.
like2rake posted:My dad was an avid photographer, and documented many of his experiences in WWII. He was 82nd Airborne, so the old photo album tells quite a story. Anyways, - not a picture of him, but a photo he took of the fellas playing a baseball game in Vittel, northeastern France. Post Normandy, and most likely prior to Operation Market Garden.
Wow!
hshuler posted:Can anyone top ‘66/67? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
I would love to see some pictures of Bob Willliams and his team mates. I believe he changed his ID to Consultant.
