One of the great things about baseball as time goes on is the friendships we make.

Prior to becoming a member of CBA, I had played with a small group from the first day I learned about travel baseball leagues outside of Little League. For the first time since we all went our separate ways, I reconnected with some of our past team's core this morning as we played in the same tournament. We were one victory short of going head to head with their team. That would've been…