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<\/div>\n\n Father’s Day with Baseball BBQ. I am writing this on the back of a lineup card at Sports at the Beach in Rehobeth\u00a0Beach, Delaware. Coaching the 14U ECP Forkballers again this weekend with my son Charlie. No different than all the games and two tournaments that my father drove me to in my playing days […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":283035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5346,2872,342,3114,338,112518,1447],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-283034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-baseball","tag-bbq","tag-dad","tag-gag","tag-gift","tag-patented","tag-tool"],"yoast_head":"\n
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