The Central Crew has reached the halfway mark of the 2009 Baseball Youth Roadtrip Fanfest. We spent two days at the jam packed AAYBA World Series in Flower Mound, Texas. There were 370 teams at this event but the crew was ready for the rush. We rented out every 2010 model Louisville Slugger bat over the two day experience. Our nomination boxes at our player of the year tent were overflowing with new entries for kids vying to win the coveted award.
Kids were in baseball card heaven at our MLBPA booth. We literally handed out 5,000 packs of cards over the two days and kids needed to tighten their belts because their pockets were overflowing with cards. Pencils, buttons, stickers, and posters were flying off our tables as we kept kids smiling all afternoon long.
At the Little League World Series tents we decided to put together a one inning turbo tournament. The twelve man tournament winner, Lamar, won a Nintendo DS version of the game and was not afraid to rub it in to all his friends.
Lamar was not so lucky at the Topps Attax tent. He lost in the first round to his buddy Parker. Parker struck out Lamar three times and brought him back down to earth.
At Disney, we played line drive XD where kids tried to hit waffle balls through the big D on a banner. The game was free but all participants needed to have a Zeke and Luther postcard in hand to be eligible to play.
At New Era we once again had kids begging us to play the hat game. Although no one won the jackpot, we did hand out a few fanfest hats.
We make out way out of Texas after three weeks and head to Oklahoma. Check in to baseballyouth.com to see what kind of fun we get into next.