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There is a kid dancing in center field in the middle of the game. It is not for the crowd. ⚾ Meet 10-year-old Hayden Gollehon! He has been playing for four years, center field belongs to him, and in his words he is the king of the outfield, which means he gets to call everyone else off the ball in the gap. He also gets really nervous before a big game. So he takes deep breaths, and he dances, and then he plays. The same trick works at school when there is a test. He crosses the road to the school field to hit and take ground balls. He studies the other team on GameChanger so he knows where to stand. On his birthday he played through a downpour and his parents dried his hat in the bathroom hand dryer, and he never came off the field. His mom put it best when she told us why she nominated him: he gets down on himself, but he never gets down on his team. Her advice to every other baseball parent is one we are still thinking about: the car ride home should never be a replay of the game. Congratulations to our USSSA Baseball Player of the Week! Drop some love for Hayden in the comments 👇

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Game one ended at 11:40. Game two starts at 1:00. The homework is due Monday. This is not a complaint. This is just what a doubleheader Saturday actually looks like from the back seat, and every travel ball family has filmed some version of it. The uniform does not get clean. The sandwich gets eaten sideways. Everybody makes it. Tag the parent whose car looks exactly like this today. #usssabaseball #baseball #youthbaseball #playusssa

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The trunk is the locker room. The bumper is the bench. Dinner is whatever was on the passenger seat. Nobody in adult league has time to go home and change, and nobody is skipping the game over it either. You get there with one cleat tied and you hit second. Twelve hours later everybody is sore and doing it again next week. Drop the worst parking lot change you have pulled off. #usssaslowpitch #slowpitch #slowpitchsoftball #softball #adultleague