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Little League Is a Hit in Upper Northwest
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"It was pretty much the highlight of my week," Sheridan said of games when he was a boy.
Now a new generation of players, some of whom dream of following Sheridan to the pro ranks, are enjoying youth baseball.
On a recent weekend afternoon Will Stone sat behind home plate at the Chevy Chase field and watched his son, Robert, make his pitching debut. Taking the mound for the Cubs, the younger Stone retired the first three batters on the Tigers squad in a 10-12 age group game.
"Very good. Nice job," shouted the elder Stone, after his son threw out a runner at first.
The Stone family has lived in Chevy Chase for about 12 years, and he has worked as a lobbyist on Capitol Hill. But Stone, who is also a local scoutmaster, said high-powered jobs make little difference when watching Capitol City games.
"No one makes a big deal about what they do," said Stone, as Metro buses zipped by behind the center field fence on Western Avenue. "It is fun. It is relaxed. We don't have any obnoxious jock dads. No one runs the score up on anybody."
After all, that would not be very neighborly.
