Days like today, Father’s Day, Facebook shines. A great day, a great place for people to pay tribute to our fathers, and their role in our lives, and the game. A perk of having this website is getting to know so many of you, and getting to share some of life’s finer moments. One of those arrived in email today, in response to my morning post, “Of Fathers and Fastpitch“, from Tim Lyon, head coach of the USA Jr. Men’s team. It’s posted below, and perfectly captures the essence of Father’s Day for me, and I hope, for you as well.
Click here for Tim Lyon’s story, “A Safe Place“, or view below.
Editor’s note: A father-son game of catch was captured poignantly in Field of Dreams, a movie released a few months after my own father, Harry passed away. One of my cherished memories of him was a game of catch with him. Fittingly, he was laid to rest just across the street from the ballpark where we toss the ball back and forth. Twenty years later, in 2009, I was fortunate to see a special screening of the movie, attended by Kevin Costner, the director of the movie, and others involved, who stayed for a discussion after the movie. It was the same year that I visited that hallowed ground in Iowa, the day after the ISC World Tournament in Quad Cities, Iowa ended. For any of you planning on being in Iowa when the tournament returns there this summer, it is a trek worth making, just a couple of hours through the tall corn and spectacular, cloud laced blue skies. Heaven? Maybe…