One of the great things about sports is the pure entertainment value. It doesn't matter if it is Pee Wee Football, Little League, college, or pro. Aside from the excitement of the games themselves and rooting for your chosen teams, there is always the possibility that something completely unexpected just might happen that will make you laugh to the point that your chosen beverage comes out of your nose.
That is what this blog is all about. Below is a true story that happened to me as a kid. I first posted this on a thread back in March. I received some mice feedback on the story so I decided that this might be a good topic for a blog. So without further delay, here is my story. Feel free to add your own and have some fun with this blog.
This is a little league story dating back to the early 1980's. I need to start by saying as a whole, I was a terrible baseball player. I was a decent pitcher but I could not field to save my life and my hitting was marginal at best. When I was not pitching the coach would put me in for "participation time" at third base.
On this particular day we were down 9 - 3 in the bottom of the 5th inning (we played 7 inning games back then), we were playing the field and the bases were loaded with nobody out. I was playing about even with the bag. The batter hit a line drive right at my head. I basically stuck my glove up in self defense. As I caught the ball I fell backward and tripped over the 3rd base bag. Through no conscious effort of my own, while flailing my arms and trying to catch my balance, I tagged out the runner at third. I rolled head over heals into foul ground as the runner on second took off for 3rd. As I am laying on my back everyone starts yelling, "He's coming!" I couldn't seem to stand up an d get my footing so I started doing a fast "army crawl" toward the bag. The runner and I got there at about the same time. The umpire called the runner out but, to this day I know that I missed the tag and they guy was safe. The ugliest unassisted triple play in the history of baseball. After the play, I just rolled over on by back and started laughing my arse off.
We ended up losing the game 13-3.
