My wife and I arrive at Raleigh Durham Airport at 5pm to make sure our son gets on his flight to Ft Meyers for the WWBA. We finally get through the security and to the gate and we are told his flight is delayed one hour. We are then told that he will still make his connector in Atlanta so dont worry. Five minutes before they are to board the plane we are told he will not have time to make his connector flight in Atlanta to Ft Meyers and we should not put him on the plane! We ask them what other flights they have in order to get him to Ft Meyers for his 9am game today. They tell us they have no more flights. My son now has tears in his eyes and I am standing there wondering what the heck are we going to do. We hurry to get his ball bag and luggage off the plane. I then remember my brother who lives in Orlando and like me and all of you is a baseball junkie. His son my nephew was a catcher as well playing at a D-1 program a couple of years ago. I call him and he tells me dont worry, get him on a flight to Orlando and I will drive him to Ft Meyers. We then scramble find a flight arriving to Orlando at 10:05. We go back through security and get him on the plane at 8:15. We get a call at 10:10 from my brothers wife that they have him and they are on their way to Ft Meyers which they tell me is a three hour drive. At 2:30 this morning they call to say that Jeff is at the Motel. Jeff calls me at 11:00 am to tell me that they won this morning and he drove in the only run of the game in their 1-0 win!!! Who else would have done something like this for us. Baseball people thats who. People who understand how important it is to kids and parents. Quite honestly I have done things like this for people all my life not just family. I guess it does come back around and sometimes in a very good way. Thanks Russell and Sheila May you are awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!
Original Post
