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- Title: Mrs Palladino (Short Story)
- Author : Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature
- Release Date : January 22, 2009
- Genre: Reference,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 341 KB
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"Mrs Palladino is the mother of one of the other kids on our town's Little League team," Angus explains, as a follow-up to his previous statement that what this team needed was, in fact, a Mrs Palladino. He looks over at me. "Tell Ms Schmidt what you were telling me the other day?" I curse Angus inwardly for putting me on the spot, but I can only blame myself, of course. "She actually had four kids," I begin. "Any time my kids were on any baseball team or a soccer team or basketball, or even band or school plays, one of the Palladinos was within one year of them. And Mrs Palladino would organize the tryouts, or the lighting, or the practice schedules, or the picture days. One hundred-twenty different Little League teams and she had them zipping in and out in front of the baseball backdrop like D-Day. Then there was a time that my daughter went to field hockey tryouts and it was a big disaster, girls showing up without equipment and some coach having them sprint in a parking lot. My daughter was in tears and I said, "well, what happened to Mrs Palladino?" Because in our family it was just a given that Mrs Palladino would run anything that was run well. My daughter said Megan Palladino had to pick between field hockey and band and chose band."