Nearly twenty years watching this play out, from the stands to the professional level.
I've watched the youth baseball world from every angle. As a parent in the stands. As a community member who watched two full age groups of boys grow up on the same fields, from age five into their early twenties. And as someone who works inside professional baseball at the highest level.
I've seen what happens when dads get it right. And I've watched, up close, what happens when they don't.
The hardest people to love are the ones who need it the most. That goes for kids in the dugout and dads in the stands.
Baseball will end. What does not end is your son's memory of how you made him feel walking to the car after the game.