Comments on: The Final Chapter of the Ricketts Park Series: Connie Mack World Series Time http://thegoldensombrero.com/wordpress/archives/683 Sat, 14 Apr 2012 20:50:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Mizuno World Win Series http://thegoldensombrero.com/wordpress/archives/683/comment-page-1#comment-1951 Mizuno World Win Series Thu, 16 Sep 2010 09:57:58 +0000 http://thegoldensombrero.com/wordpress/?p=683#comment-1951 [...] Connie Mack World Series Time | The Golden Sombrero As the local teams of the Farmington league do battle, every last one of them has one common one thought in their brain; “If we win this thing, I get to be in the Connie Mack World Series loved. it was a mizuno world win V from when i was 11…so it was about 5 years old. last summer one of the kids on the squad griff and i managed asked me what i thought of his glove. i noticed it was a mizuno and started telling him how i personally preferred rawlings and wilsons, [...] [...] Connie Mack World Series Time | The Golden Sombrero As the local teams of the Farmington league do battle, every last one of them has one common one thought in their brain; “If we win this thing, I get to be in the Connie Mack World Series loved. it was a mizuno world win V from when i was 11…so it was about 5 years old. last summer one of the kids on the squad griff and i managed asked me what i thought of his glove. i noticed it was a mizuno and started telling him how i personally preferred rawlings and wilsons, [...]

]]> By: John Livingston http://thegoldensombrero.com/wordpress/archives/683/comment-page-1#comment-560 John Livingston Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:17:41 +0000 http://thegoldensombrero.com/wordpress/?p=683#comment-560 great post Griffin! Also enjoyed reading your comment Daniel. mizuno is what I always had. it has already been fun watching the kids in Ricketts scramble for foul balls to get them signed by their favorite Farmington players. I can't wait to experience this World Series from the perspective of a reporter. great post Griffin! Also enjoyed reading your comment Daniel. mizuno is what I always had. it has already been fun watching the kids in Ricketts scramble for foul balls to get them signed by their favorite Farmington players. I can’t wait to experience this World Series from the perspective of a reporter.

]]> By: Daniel Clark http://thegoldensombrero.com/wordpress/archives/683/comment-page-1#comment-544 Daniel Clark Sat, 31 Jul 2010 06:35:16 +0000 http://thegoldensombrero.com/wordpress/?p=683#comment-544 i have a story i think can help reflect what the series means for kids growing up in farmington: so ricketts is swarming with hundreds of kids all week who follow players everywhere trying to nab sweet merchandise. the luckiest kids get bats, jerseys, gloves,and hats. as a youngster i was one of the kids, however, and i was once thrilled to receive a single shoe as a gift from a player. it really didn't matter what it was. i just loved the series and wanted a piece of it to take with me. when i was playing in my first series, i made sure to pack my bag as full as i could with shirts, old gloves, old hats, bats, and batting gloves as soon as we dropped to the elimination bracket. there were a couple of kids who had been following our team all season trying to be bat boys and just really wanting to be included with us. i told those kids to come see me after we were eliminated because i had something special for them. i gave them each a glove. these weren't ratty old gloves either. they were still playable. one was the first glove i ever really loved. it was a mizuno world win V from when i was 11...so it was about 5 years old. last summer one of the kids on the squad griff and i managed asked me what i thought of his glove. i noticed it was a mizuno and started telling him how i personally preferred rawlings and wilsons, but that mizuno made nice stuff. i told him one of my all-time favorites was a mizuno. he asked me if it was the one he was holding. i noticed that the one he had was a world win V, so i said, "well, yeah. just like that one actually." he replied to me, "coach, you gave me this glove when i was ten and it has been my favorite glove since." that knocked me back a bit because this kid's dad was drafted and had a pro career. i assume his house was littered with baseball memorabilia. i think the point of the story is that the series turns farmington teenagers into local heroes for a week every summer. to youngsters the memories the players provide serve as a motivating force to keep working with the game so that one day all the kids begging for shirts, gloves, and memories will have an opportunity to return a few one day. i have a story i think can help reflect what the series means for kids growing up in farmington:

so ricketts is swarming with hundreds of kids all week who follow players everywhere trying to nab sweet merchandise. the luckiest kids get bats, jerseys, gloves,and hats. as a youngster i was one of the kids, however, and i was once thrilled to receive a single shoe as a gift from a player. it really didn’t matter what it was. i just loved the series and wanted a piece of it to take with me. when i was playing in my first series, i made sure to pack my bag as full as i could with shirts, old gloves, old hats, bats, and batting gloves as soon as we dropped to the elimination bracket. there were a couple of kids who had been following our team all season trying to be bat boys and just really wanting to be included with us. i told those kids to come see me after we were eliminated because i had something special for them. i gave them each a glove. these weren’t ratty old gloves either. they were still playable. one was the first glove i ever really loved. it was a mizuno world win V from when i was 11…so it was about 5 years old. last summer one of the kids on the squad griff and i managed asked me what i thought of his glove. i noticed it was a mizuno and started telling him how i personally preferred rawlings and wilsons, but that mizuno made nice stuff. i told him one of my all-time favorites was a mizuno. he asked me if it was the one he was holding. i noticed that the one he had was a world win V, so i said, “well, yeah. just like that one actually.” he replied to me, “coach, you gave me this glove when i was ten and it has been my favorite glove since.” that knocked me back a bit because this kid’s dad was drafted and had a pro career. i assume his house was littered with baseball memorabilia. i think the point of the story is that the series turns farmington teenagers into local heroes for a week every summer. to youngsters the memories the players provide serve as a motivating force to keep working with the game so that one day all the kids begging for shirts, gloves, and memories will have an opportunity to return a few one day.

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