Especially what happened one day, this one boy on our team when I was 10 years old. He looked and WALKED all awkward the day before our first game. We all asked him if he was okay. It turns out, the coach had taken him out behind the dugout and introduced him to a "CUP". You see he was going to be our catcher, and the coach was required to give him one.
He had him take off his pants and put it on, and then helped him adjust it into position. (Nothing inappropriate happened, just an adult coach introducing a young catcher on how he needed to protect his young little stuff from possible injury.)
Finally, before the second game he told us about it, and then he became quite the celebrity. Right in the dugout he pulled down his pants so we could all see it. Outside his tighty whities he was wearing a cup-holding youth jock. He showed us how the cup came out and then he put it back in. For the next few games we all got a big kick out of tapping him in the nuts with our baseball bats, hearing the bat hit plastic, and then he'd pretend to be in pain. Then we'd all laugh, including him.
Anonymous
The best advice and showing the young boy how to use the cup. Then also explaining to the boy why he needed to wear the cup. I wonder now how many of the other boys wanted to wear a cup? thanks for sharing your story.
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