rkbenn
04-07-2009, 12:48 PM
Not sure if any of you remember about a month ago my son too a bad hop to the forehead playing SS. Well, friday he took another one from one of the bigger kids that was a shot, and hit another rock and popped him good in the forehead. We took him to the hospital and everything was okay. Funny thing was, the play before that, he made a nice backhandes spab and threw out their fastest runner.
I really thought he would be done playing for good. He turned 10 in Nov and is 65 lbs at the most and is the backup SS in Majors. It was easy to convince him the first one was a freak accident, this one I said nothing. He has the second best glove on the team, and is tough as nails, gets in front of every ball, unlike the rest of his teamates. I was leaving it all up too him on what he wanted to do. There was no way I was going to tell him to suck it up and get back out there.
I told him he had nothing to prove to me, because after the first one he proved to me he was tough.
I told him to go to his coach and tell him what he wanted to do. I told him to talk it out with his coach, who respect and was a terrific ballplayer in his day. This is what he told his coach: I want to take a break from SS, and play in the outfield, until I'm ready to give it another try. I told you he was tough. He told me he still wanted to play SS again. I told him that he needed to listen to me and prepare himself to go back out there. We are now working on, not rounding, but playing on the Left side of the body. I taught him this in the past but he never would do it. He is more open to it at this point. We are repositioning his throwing hand to be high and more out in front, and work more on the hops. Not sure if he did all this it would have made a difference on those two hops, but it may have helped. I told him no matter if he thought he was ready, I can't allow him to go out there if he can't do these basic things.
He did ask for one of those facial masks for his face, which his mom said he will wear if he goes back out there in the infield You know what? I have to agree. I seen Pro-softball players wearing them. The players that seen what happened to him would not hold it against him for wearing one.
I really thought he would be done playing for good. He turned 10 in Nov and is 65 lbs at the most and is the backup SS in Majors. It was easy to convince him the first one was a freak accident, this one I said nothing. He has the second best glove on the team, and is tough as nails, gets in front of every ball, unlike the rest of his teamates. I was leaving it all up too him on what he wanted to do. There was no way I was going to tell him to suck it up and get back out there.
I told him he had nothing to prove to me, because after the first one he proved to me he was tough.
I told him to go to his coach and tell him what he wanted to do. I told him to talk it out with his coach, who respect and was a terrific ballplayer in his day. This is what he told his coach: I want to take a break from SS, and play in the outfield, until I'm ready to give it another try. I told you he was tough. He told me he still wanted to play SS again. I told him that he needed to listen to me and prepare himself to go back out there. We are now working on, not rounding, but playing on the Left side of the body. I taught him this in the past but he never would do it. He is more open to it at this point. We are repositioning his throwing hand to be high and more out in front, and work more on the hops. Not sure if he did all this it would have made a difference on those two hops, but it may have helped. I told him no matter if he thought he was ready, I can't allow him to go out there if he can't do these basic things.
He did ask for one of those facial masks for his face, which his mom said he will wear if he goes back out there in the infield You know what? I have to agree. I seen Pro-softball players wearing them. The players that seen what happened to him would not hold it against him for wearing one.