8 Year Old Baseball

 My wife and I were invited to watch some friends 8 year old grandsons baseball tournament.  Was I ever surprised at the quality of the ballplayers, the game, and the field.  This facility has two ball diamonds, artificial turf infields, well maintained outfield, and covered concrete tiered stands (one with chairs and the other bring your own and plenty of space).  

For eight year-olds (and up, not sure how up may 9 years old)  they played a pretty good game, not much overthrows, good rundowns, great attention by each boy to the game.  The pitchers were focused and in good form for their first or second year out of dad pitch.  They all had on uniforms with their names on them.  Most of the boys were wearing Oakley sunglasses ($$$.)  Some of them were sporting pretty decent mullets too.  Dressed and acted the part for sure.  All were using aluminum bats (their own) withe a large barrel.  Now onto the pictures