My wife decides that she wanted to play softball in the local league. I have been playing baseball in one for a while and she said it looked like fun. She also thought it would be good exercise and would help her lose the last ten pounds she had gained while she was pregnant. It was really bothering her that she felt out of shape. She looked fine to me, but those last ten pounds were really bugging her. I thought her playing softball would really help her self esteem and would be a good way to get her out of the house. Now that she decided to play we would need to do a little shopping. We have a lot of baseball equipment, but not a lot of softball sports equipment. We had to start finding some softball sports equipment soon, since the season was about ready to start.
The two things of softball gear she was concerned about were softballs and softball mitts. She actually planned on doing some softball pitching for the team. During high school she did fastpitch softball pitching. She was actually pretty good. This team was not doing fastpitch softball pitching, but underhand softball pitching. It was going to be an adjustment from fastpitch softball pitching to regular softball pitching. I knew we are going to need a lot of softballs. We ordered a case of Worth softballs. We looked at Mizuno softball gloves which were very good. The softball sports equipment was going good, and then we hit the softball mitts dilemma
We were having trouble finding her one out of the tons of softball mitts that she would like. I use a Rawlings glove. She used a Rawlings glove when she was in high school. I wasn’t sure what was going on with the softball mitts dilemma. I knew she would eventually go back to the Rawlings glove, but I went through all the softball mitts with her anyway. She kept kept coming back to Mizuno softball gloves. I was right. After all the softball mitts she tried she got the Rawlings glove.
She needed some other softball sports equipment. She needed cleats and batting gloves. She got sliding shorts too. I talked her into getting a softball sports equipment bag to carry all her softball gear we had gotten. The other softball gear I had to talk her into was a bat. I guess she thought she would just practice with my bat, but she needed one more her size. She got cleats also.
Once she had gotten all her softball gear sorted out, we practiced in the backyard. It had been twelve years since she had played softball, so she was a little rusty. She got her game back pretty quickly though. I was really proud of her for doing this. It was fun getting her all the baseball gear she needed and watching her play. She really enjoyed herself that season and got the rest of the baby weight off. Her team was really good too. They had a winning season. I was a little jealous since our team didn’t have one. She’ll have to put her softball gear away this season though because we were expecting another baby.
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