re: Embarrassing stories from your childhood

One of my mom's brothers had a serious neck injury playing hs football. So she always made sure I was signed up to play baseball in the fall to keep me away from it.

I was a really good pitcher when I was young, and was playing fall ball in Atlanta. But when I played in that league, it was like I was Randy Johnson.

So everyone is pretty much terrible, since the best athletes were playing football. I had a catcher who had to throw it thirty feet in the air to get the ball back to the mound. One night game while pitching, he throws it back to me, and it was so high, I lost the ball in the lights. It landed directly in my right eye.

I cried for a few, but eventually finished the game. When I went to school the next day, the teacher pulled me aside, and asked if everything was okay at home, and wanted to be sure I wasn't being abused.