Both teams were strong on the
pitcher's mound on Saturday, Aug.
"In those timeouts around the
pitcher's mound, we'd take time to argue about who was going to win the welterweight championship fight, or what was the best steakhouse in the town we were playing in, or what to get somebody for a wedding present.
The 5,700-square-foot ball field, donated by the Catch 22 Foundation, resembles an actual field (at approximately one-half the size of a standard Little League T-ball field) with synthetic grass, painted bases, and
pitcher's mound. The perimeter of the field maintains a flat surface that accommodates all patients, including those in wheelchairs, stretchers, or carrying necessary medical equipment.
The grounds crew had to tend to the
pitcher's mound several times.
* ATHLETIC FIELDS The most common drill for teaching hand signals is called "retriever baseball." In this drill, the dog sits at the center of an imaginary diamond--the
pitcher's mound position, if you will.
Maybe if Bilal can prove himself on the
pitcher's mound, his father will make it to see him play.
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"We played in a couple of interesting grounds - one of those was Yankee Stadium which still had the
pitcher's mound on the field of play and that was a wee bit different.
Darryl had taken his mother's peculiar attention to his body temperature as typical motherly devotion until the afternoon he stood on the
pitcher's mound in the midst of his very first Little League game with the batter at the plate and suddenly his mother crashed through the chain-link fence along the first base line, sprinted across the infield, and, with her one hand cupping the back of Darryl's head, buried his face in a cold, wet washcloth with the other.
Ten years ago I walked my youngest daughter from home plate to the
pitcher's mound where she said her wedding vows during one of the summer games.
The third baseman would take left field, pushing the left fielder to center and ultimately the right fielder to the
pitcher's mound. The umpires have to move around game to game, so why not the players inning to inning?