Weekend Notes: My First Baseball

[pantryslut]

On Sunday we took the kids out to their very first baseball game. Our Family Coalition was sponsoring an outing to Family Day with the Oakland A's so we happily joined up. It was a lovely day for baseball, with the fog finally breaking somewhere around the third inning. We weren't sitting particularly near the infield or anything, but our section was filled with queer folk and their kids, waving rainbow flags, sharing sunscreen, and eating ridiculous ballpark food.

My kids sat for all nine innings. We were all prepared to bail after, oh, say, the 5th. But instead, they started leading cheers. G. is a proud daddy this morning.

Comments

[onyxlynx]

YaaaY!

I don't know whether Family Day is the same day every year; I went randomly to a game once to find almost every child in Alameda County at the ballpark.

(And you can explain the rules later, when they ask.)

[pantryslut]

We did have to explain a little why balls out of the park on one side of the big yellow pole were cheered and balls out of the park on the other side of the big yellow pole were not. Baby steps.