Outdoor Recreation & Sports

The first Little League game of the season! And wasn’t I excited—probably at least as excited as my son was. The first thing I noticed when I got to the ball park was that Coach Nicholson didn’t look the same. He had coached my two older sons in Little League as well, and it had been a good four years since my fourteen-year-old’s last game. I hadn’t seen him in that long, so it was something of a surprise when I noticed that his hair looked different. It wasn’t exactly white, it was—blonde!!!!! Afterwards, I went up to him, and after we both agreed that Billy tried his best, I asked Coach if he had dyed his hair. “Oh, no, Stu,” he said, laughing. “I went bald right after Mike left Little League. Last year I couldn’t handle it anymore, and I got a hair loss treatment. This woman who does electrolysis recommended it to me and, along with this convenient little toupee, I was able to reconstruct my hair—this time the color I wanted it to be.” “You didn’t like it brown?” “Not as much,” Coach Nicholson confessed. “When I was a kid, I always wanted to be blonde. Well, now I’ve made a childhood dream come true.” Billy had been paying close attention to the conversation up until this point, but then he got bored and ran off to horse around with some of his teammates.