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06/21/09 08:03:47 pm, by Michael Happy
Categories: Metro Detroit

A PB on Father's Day

Being a long-time runner, both at the collegiate and recreational level, I'm a big fan of track-and-field competition. I'm even geeky enough about the sport of running to watch three-hour telecasts of major marathons, such as the one in New York City.

During these telecasts, you often hear the announcers talk about records: course records, U.S. records, world records and then there's the runners' PBs (personal-best times).

To me, the PBs are the most important of all.

Whatever your challenge in life, if you do your personal best, leave it all on the field, there are no regrets -- win or lose.

I offered that advice to my 10-year-old son, Louis, before his baseball team played for the Grosse Pointe Shores-Woods Little League AAA title today.

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I was so proud to watch him out there, walking to lead off the game, scoring the Giants' first run and then making an excellent catch in center field to end the bottom of the first inning.

What an awesome way to spend Father's Day: the sun shining brightly, your kid playing for a championship and having my dad and former little-league coach sitting nearby. My brother, Brian -- who, just like Lou, never missed an opportunity to slide or dive for a ball during his playing days -- also joined us in the stands.

Unfortunately, the Giants lost to the Marlins, 18-11. One bad inning turned a tie game into a semi-rout.

No matter.

Lou had a PB and came off the field in the end with a smile, making his father smile and giving him a very happy Father's Day.

Here's wishing all the fathers out there the same.

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