MABA Road Trips

The Mid-Atlantic Baseball Assocuation (MABA) was made up of teams all over Maryland and scheduled games every Sunday and in the spring added Thursday evenings. The Sunday games were double headers. We practiced twice a week as well.  Kevin and I spent a lot of time coaching baseball.  We also spent a lot of time in the car together.

Not only did Kevin and I coach together then but we worked together as well.  I'm sure that we let the baseball bleed into our office time as well.  I always knew when  it was time to talk baseball at the office when Kevin would take the pearl (brand new baseball) out of his desk and start working though a progression of grips for different pitches.

For our away games many times the team would meet at my house and we would road trip to the fields.  My son Billy would usually find a car that he could hang out with his friends for the rides to the games.  After the games I started noticing that Billy was always looking around for a ride home. It dawned on me that the rides home for Billy became excruciating because Coach O and I would spent the entire ride reliving each pitch, each situation, how we made our lineups, how everyone played...

Our first ever double header in the MABA was to play at team in Owings Mill, over an hour away.  In that game in the first inning we managed to get a couple runners on and our 3 hitter hit a rope to the short stop who easily turned a 6-4-3 triple play since we had the hit and run on.  That was our illustrious start in the MCBA.  Kevin and I just shook our heads. Some people play a lifetime of baseball and never play a game with a triple play and it happened in our first inning of league play.

On a side note, a few years later, when we were playing on a regulation field, we beat that Owings Mill team 2-1 in home game at Rock Terrace (our home for our last season).  I remember every detail of that game.  Both Cameron's pitched lights out that day.  Kevin was over the moon with that win.