My First Baseball Season

By Edna Feliciano-Flatts

What goes through the mind of my six-year-old son when he starts playing baseball? Its 2004, and Anthony is moving up to play baseball with the bigger kids. Hes excited to play because hes only six years old, almost seven, and hes playing with the eight-year-old kids.
Anthony is also excited because his dad is also going to coach his team. His dad is a first-time coach as well. Anthony thinks he can play any position he wants, but he doesnt know what he is in for!

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jan 24, 2017
• ISBN: 9781524668815

Edna Feliciano-Flatts

My name is Edna L. Feliciano-Flatts, and I live in Pennsylvania. I’ve resided here for twenty-three years. I am a mother of three boys who keep me very busy. My three boys are Kristopher Herrera (twenty-three), Eric Herrera (twenty), and Anthony Flatts (nineteen). I’ve been happily married to my husband, Jaime Flatts, for twenty-one years. I was born in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, and lived in Puerto Rico until the age of seven. We moved to the United States (New York City) in 1983, and we came here in search of a better life. I moved out of NYC before my son Kristopher was born. I moved to Pennsylvania, where I now reside with my family.

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Published by AuthorHouse 01/24/2017

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Contents

First Year

Opening Day

The Games

The Final Game

Kristopher’s Game

First Year

The baseball season is beginning. Oh boy! I am so ready to play! But I have no clue how to play because I was in T-ball last year. During T-ball, all I did was hit the ball that the coach put on a stick. Once I hit the ball, I had to run to the bases, but instead I hopped the whole way without getting into trouble with the coach. I made everyone laugh when it was my turn to bat.

Hey, I’m only six years old, going to be seven, and I am so excited to play this year. Will it be the same as last year? I don’t know. This year I’ve been moved up to play with the eight years old kids. My teammates are bigger than I am. Maybe I won’t be able to hop or skip through the bases. I almost forgot! My dad is my coach too. Oh no! What am I to do? How can I have fun this year with my dad as a coach? Boy! I am only six years old, almost seven. I think I have too much to worry about, and the season has just begun.

Here we go! At practice, I’m the only one they call out all the time.

Anthony, do this!

Anthony, do that!

Is there going to be any fun for me this year? My dad gets mad, and sometimes he tells me he’s going to put me back in T-ball. But if I go back there, everyone is going to call me a baby. And I don’t want that to happen.

Well, let me tell you about this season. I’m playing for the Indians. Some