Baseball Mania Day!

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Last Thursday Redding's best friend Matthew, his Mom Melanie and Grandmother Carol came to Louisville to enjoy a day of Louisville's best. As mentioned before we went to the Derby Museum, but everyones favorite (because we all love to watch and play it) was the Louisville Slugger Museum and the Louisville Bats baseball game. The boys enjoyed the batting cages, Presidents and Baseball exhibit, the bat factory tour...and the gift shop...we all spent too much! Later that day we headed to Louisville Slugger Field when the gates opened for some batting practice and hopefully a few fly balls. Sullivan came away with three, Redding two, and Matthew got two also. To a sweet sentiment we all received free miniature bats from the Louisville bat factory, but the sponsor on the bat was the ALS Association Kentucky Chapter. They were promoting their upcoming Walk to d'feet ALS in Lexington. It touched us all to have those bats in memory of our Pops! Of all the days, we were able to be there, The ALS Association was there...the start to a great game. But the crazy fun doesn't end there. The boys were stopped by one of their promotion girls asking for their help. They were chosen to help out during the game. Matthew was the junior announcer at the first inning. Redding was junior grounds keeper after the fourth inning, and Sullivan and I were able to play "Are you smarter than Buddy the Bat?" at the end of the sixth inning. It was such a Cool experience for the boys to get to meet Buddy, go on the field and have a few moments on the jumbo tron. They all were given a free t-shirt and squishy balls, and we were all upgraded to sixth roll seats above the Bats dug out. They were AWESOME! After the game we stood around like a bunch of groupies and got baseballs and hats signed by the Bats and Charlotte Knights players. We couldn't have had a better day and we are so glad we were able to spend it with our baseball loving friends!!!