Must Wear a Cup
One of the most overlooked rules in the rulebook is that every male player SHALL wear a cup. The shall means this is not an option! Why would you want to send your male players out there w/o a cup? Don’t you want grandchildren?
When I was playing on my over 30 team I used to occasionally forget my cup for practice. Not having it made me tentative when approaching ground balls from first base. When I had my cup, I was fearless. This is the mentality we want to program into the kids heads so they want to wear a cup. They should get used to playing w/ it at all times.
Today they have really cool slider pants that hold the cup. You don’t need the old school jock strap, though there is nothing wrong w/ that. The sliders serve a dual purpose, no strawberries, and a cup! Beautiful!
All coaches must demand that their players where cups and their parents must enforce it. (Hard for the coach to enforce w/o getting arrested!) I advise against that….lol.
I remember in a Pony League scrimmage game we played against the hardest thrower in the league. A player on our team squared to bunt old school style where you square all the way around. He was fully exposed, he took a direct hit, he did not have a cup on. Sounds funny, but he was on the ground convulsing and needed a blanket to keep from going in to shock and an ambulance to carry him off the field.
Think you don’t need a cup? Anyone have any good cup stories?
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Yeah, I have a few Cup Stories.
Oh, wait a minute. Been there, done that. (What, no links?)
What about mouthguards? One of our players had his two front teeth knocked out last season. Fortunately, they got him to the ER and the dentist in time to save the teeth: popped them back in, and they eventually miraculously reattached themselves. It’s like some kind of sci-fi reanimation story.
He now wears a mouthguard every single practice and game.
I can’t believe they saved his teeth. That is amazing. I have a girl that wears a mouth guard and another that wears one of those funny masks. I am all for safety, but have never been one to really push it other than masks on helmets and cups on boys.
Sometimes kids get hurt. If you check out my post on the injury histories of Little League there are very few serious ones.