- Baseball dirt does not stay on the field. It will be found in your car and will also come home in your slugger’s cleats, socks, and sometimes even – inexplicably – in his underwear.
- Baseball uniform laundry is a serious chore. See above.
- Why hasn’t anyone popularized baseball pants the color of baseball dirt? See above.
- If your kid strikes out, it’s quite possible you’re sitting in the wrong seat. For the team’s sake, be sure to move before his next at-bat.
- If the team won when you wore that blue shirt, you should probably wear it again to the next game. And the same earrings just to be on the safe side.
- To reiterate #4 and #5, superstitions have actual power in baseball.
- If you know how to keep the scorebook, you will be asked to keep the scorebook.
- Most moms claim they don’t know how to keep the scorebook.
- If you keep the scorebook, you have to pay attention to the game and can’t talk to your fellow fans.
- If you keep the scorebook, you don’t have to talk to your fellow fans.
- A good stadium chair is worth every penny.
- You have to pick your battles during baseball season. Just go ahead and concede the excessive concession stand candy.
- On a related note, your standards of a decent dinner for the family will probably slide during baseball season as much as your kid does into second base.
- Try not to feel too guilty about this lack of home-cooked meals. Think of all the people you’re keeping employed at Chick-Fil-A.
- After a few seasons, you will accumulate a variety of team t-shirts you will wear again never. Hence the (surprising) popularity of generic – but heavily blinged – “Baseball Mom” tees.
- Somebody will always yell, “Be a hitter!” when kids head to the plate. Don’t be that somebody. Of course they want to be a hitter.
- Somebody will also always yell at her kid to get his elbow up while he’s batting. Don’t be that somebody either. Leave the coaching to the coaches.
- There are a lot of good life lessons to be learned from bad calls and tough losses. That doesn’t make them any less heartbreaking for us to watch.
- Winning isn’t everything. But it does make the ride home more enjoyable.
- Odds are he won’t ever play in the MLB, so enjoy this while it lasts. Someday you might miss scrubbing those stains out of his uniform pants.
- Ha! No, you won’t actually miss scrubbing those stains. But you just might miss seeing that triumphant look on his face when he hits a double, slides in safe, or scores the winning run.
- After all, sharing in his joy is what baseball moms do best.
Lovely Parting Gifts 