Day 6, Saturday June 12th
We woke up that morning and just hung out. We got ready to go and headed to down town Cooperstown. Oh.... the shopping... did I ever love the shopping!!! And the Hall of Fame! This was the ONLY time I was a little sad all the little boys were there. They weren't a big fan of either. Above is my beautiful friend Jess with Murphy! He decided he loved her ALOT that week!
We were basically killing time down town. Everyone was anxiously awaiting opening ceremonies. The boys had spent their first night in the barracks and I sooooo wanted to visit with Mick and see how things went. We drove over to the park at 4 o'clock to get a good seat. Opening Ceremonies was scheduled to start at 5. Unfortunately the rain was scheduled to down pour at that time also. Cute Gwy in his rain gear and umbrella!
Opening Ceremonies was rained out and postponed until Sunday morning. We were scheduled to play Sunday morning so all the games were moved back also. So we headed back to the place and went to bed!
Day 7, Sunday June 13th
Opening ceremonies was so awesome! A couple times I wanted to tear up! It was seriously a cool thing. 1000 some odd boys! Murphy got a little tired waiting for the show to begin!
They had each team walk in and if you can look close you can see the teams holding their banners around the warning track. In Cooperstown part of our fees were to pay for uniforms. All the teams wear the same thing. They get 1 red game jersey and 1 blue. They get the socks and pull-overs and undershirts. We had to bring 2 pair of white pants and shoes. The reason behind this being patriotic (that's what the owner said). He believes baseball is America's game and hence proudly wants them to wear the red, white and blue.
Another pic of the amazing Opening Ceremonies.
Maddog and Murphy having a ball! Cooperstown was so interesting. They are very strict with the boys. Their was one player that got a 2 day suspension for wearing his baseball cap backwards. It was pretty awesome to know that the boys were going to behave themselves or else...
These are the barracks. Each team had one of these structures. Their were bunk beds and Mick couldn't have had a better time. If you can see off to the right there are boys outside playing wiffle ball. It makes me laugh that they would play 2 games a day and still want to be out playing wiffle ball non-stop. The boys were required to bring locks to lock their personals up and swim suits to shower with! I can't explain how beautiful and amazing these facilities were!
Opening ceremonies was so awesome! A couple times I wanted to tear up! It was seriously a cool thing. 1000 some odd boys! Murphy got a little tired waiting for the show to begin!
They had each team walk in and if you can look close you can see the teams holding their banners around the warning track. In Cooperstown part of our fees were to pay for uniforms. All the teams wear the same thing. They get 1 red game jersey and 1 blue. They get the socks and pull-overs and undershirts. We had to bring 2 pair of white pants and shoes. The reason behind this being patriotic (that's what the owner said). He believes baseball is America's game and hence proudly wants them to wear the red, white and blue.
Another pic of the amazing Opening Ceremonies.
Maddog and Murphy having a ball! Cooperstown was so interesting. They are very strict with the boys. Their was one player that got a 2 day suspension for wearing his baseball cap backwards. It was pretty awesome to know that the boys were going to behave themselves or else...
These are the barracks. Each team had one of these structures. Their were bunk beds and Mick couldn't have had a better time. If you can see off to the right there are boys outside playing wiffle ball. It makes me laugh that they would play 2 games a day and still want to be out playing wiffle ball non-stop. The boys were required to bring locks to lock their personals up and swim suits to shower with! I can't explain how beautiful and amazing these facilities were!We played 2 games this day and kicked butt! My boys were in heaven!
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