NCC is insane. Just my dominant LL team had two D1 OLB/DEs, big huge guys with speed still. Plus a professional golfer who’s son hit 23 home runs. In fact the 4 counting my kid hit 50 home runs in LL. Crazy. Not that I was a big-time athlete but looking back I’d have gone further not being from the sticks in Ohio.
On two occasions we eliminated RSF LL in the playoffs, and one Trevor was there hanging out on the fence to watch his kid. Brett Boone, Black Jack McDowell, David Wells, and Kirk Mckaskil’s kid. Now you have Steve Finley’s kid doing well. You literally have no idea who might be moving in from the sports world it’s just a great place to live, and if you have some extra scratch why not? I used to follow Mo Williams on Twitter when he was a Cavalier and he was tweeting all the time about moving to SD. Steve Kerr comes to mind, from our old HS Rick Aguilera and Brian Sipe. Seau’s son was a beast too.
Our LL field was actually overshadowed by the YMCA skate facility as you surely know screaltor and when Shawn White was there you couldn’t get the kids to pay attention. We actually erected a giant net to help protect the skateboarders who were getting pelted with home run balls. Tony Hawk of course was over there sometimes, though I didn’t notice him anytime I was over there. An ex Brownie, Jerry Sherk liked to hang around in Cardiff.
However the number of kids who had parents that played high level NCAA athletics was just insane we just didn’t have that where I came from in Ohio. I remember this somewhat feeble older guy about 6’2″ who had kids apparently at a late age and I remember thinking man his son is so athletic, I wonder why. Turns out pops played volleyball back at Stanford it was just that he was more like 57 to my 38. One lady who coached LL her husband was this huge guy, who was an electrician but turns out he was the starting QB for one season at Illinois. Another kid in the LL his dad was a DE for the Rams another huge guy. I’ve never been around so many ex-athletes whether it be pro or D1 college.
