by GIMNEPIWO » Sat Mar 24, 2018 7:13 am
In the mountains of SW Virginia the weather can change pretty quickly ... I think it was DD's Sophomore or JR year ... Double header on a Saturday or Sunday ... Over the course of the two games I went from a pair of shorts and a tank top to long pants and a hoody, plus every item of clothes I could find behind the seat of my truck and a blanket ... (conveniently there was also a mason jar with peach preserves -lol) ... Then before it was all over back to shorts and a tank top ... There was a thunder, rain and some sleet ... Which turned into snow and wild gusts of wind and a temperature drop of 20-30 degrees (it seemed, not sure) ... Before it was over the wind stopped and the sun came back out and got warm ... The craziest thing were the wind gusts ... The only time in all my years around the ball field I saw the pitcher get blown off the rubber and out of the circle ( Ump ruled no pitch ) ... On another gust the dust and dust devil kicked up so bad as a spectator you could hardly see the athletes ... It was mid pitch and the PU bailed out, again = no pitch ... I don't recall if the games were ever delayed, but they may have been.
I recall one time during her 4 years they had a weekend tourny format with several east coast teams in attendance ... I seem to remember it being in early April ... The visiting team from Vermont had not been in the grass at their home field yet that year.
The are several ties for the coldest temperature at which I coached a team, mid 20's I guess ... Many times in the snow .... It's not bad unless the wind is blowing ... Because, well, wind blows. We always buy hot hands (warmers) by the case.
"For the strength of the pack is the wolf, the strength of the wolf is the pack" Rudyard Kipling