Part One: Written June 16, 2008

We spent Father’s Day at the baseball park. It might not seem so unusual except for the fact that for the last three months our family has been at the baseball park almost every night of the week. From a family of three girls has sprung a team of athletic kids—nine to be exact, eight of them boys, and with the exception of the youngest they all played baseball this year.

Part Two: April 21, 2020

Eight boys and one girl. That’s the headcount of Carter grandchildren. Every single one of them played at least one sport, but all of them (the girl included) played baseball for at least a season or two.

The Carter family got used to being at the ballpark—a lot.