The end of the season tournament for Spartan Baseball Club was in Santa Rosa Beach this year. I went with Maxwell to the Destin tournamen last year and Robert headed down with him this year.

They had a great place to stay that included passes to the Watersound Beach Club. They definitely weren’t suffering in between games!

The schedule wasn’t great though. They ended up with a late afternoon game Sunday that kept getting pushed back. The 4:30 game finally started at 6pm and they won! That took them to a very late championship game. At that point, after staying so late, they really wanted to win to make it all worth it! Well, they did! Woohoo! Maxwell got to play second base and even start one of the games. These boys – the Black team – that had been really dismissed the entire season came out strong when given the opportunity and came home with a ring! I was so proud of them and happy for them!

Maxwell and Robert made the 5 hour drive home late at night getting back to Birmingham about 2am. Since Maxwell never did summer or travel ball, he never had the opportunity to win a ring. Pretty cool to win one in his last tournament. What a way to end it all!

Maxwell played for the Spartan Baseball Club again this spring. He put in a lot of time and hard work and enjoyed his baseball friends. It was a good season but overall frustrating when he didn’t get the playing time he deserved. After 8 years of baseball, I think this is the end of the road for Maxwell. He enjoys the game and I wish there was a way for him to keep playing – but it’s also not his favorite sport and requires such a huge time commitment. It sure has been fun watching him play and I’m glad he stuck with it as long as he did.

I didn’t get many pics from this season but I did get several from the night they got to play at Regions Field!

I”ll go just about anywhere to watch this kid do just about anything he wants to do!

The most exciting part of the season came during the end of season tournament in Santa Rosa Beach. Pics tomorrow!