Work never ends for East Seminole County baseball moms

Drop off. Pick up. Dinner. Laundry. Repeat.

It's the life of baseball moms around the country and around East Seminole County.

In an area such as this one, where youth sports are such an important part of the fabric of the community, it's often lost in the shuffle how important the behind-the-scenes work done by parents is.

It's not unique to any one sport or mother, specifically, but today I want to talk about baseball moms.

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Fortunately for Helen Morrissey, her fifth and oldest son, Dylan Morrissey, just graduated from Trinity Prep, where he played at the prep level, and is old enough to drive himself around; he even helps with some of the pick-up and drop-off duties. Dylan will also play collegiately at Gordon College next spring.

With weather here in Central Florida that lends itself to year-round, outdoor sports, it's a seemingly endless cycle for parents and moms like Helen Morrissey - one mostly done out of love for one's kids.

"They love it so much that I don't mind doing it at all," Helen Morrissey said, referencing her daily duties that mirror the duties of so many other parents in the area.

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Just ask Helen Morrissey's husband, Mike Morrissey.

"Nobody ever sees that part of the story " they just see the kids all show up at the field with their bags and their uniforms and they're on time and they're organized," said Mike Morrissey, who, like many local dads, helps out coaching his kids' teams.

The funny thing is, in so many situations, there are baseball moms who weren't even baseball fans, originally. Helen Morrissey is from Scotland, loves soccer and said baseball was "foreign" to her when she got to this country.

She, like plenty of moms who didn't like baseball before getting married and having boys who were obsessed with it, learned to love the game because she loves her kids.

"I got to love it and sit with the other mothers," Helen Morrissey said. "Just hanging out at the field all day - we all have so much fun."

Again, this applies to all sports and to both mothers and fathers. It is, in some cases, a job that may go thankless until one's kids are old enough to be hauling their own kids around from practice to practice.

So next time you're at a youth baseball game, just remember, the next time you see a kid called safe after sliding into second base for a stolen base, as the rest of the crowd cheers there just might be one parent half-cheering, half-cringing - wondering how he or she is going to get that stain out.