The 2013 Arabian-American Little League's (AALL) all-star travel team has been selected! (Team picture coming soon.)
This year's team name is the Knights. Coach Kraynyk pushed for the ultra-traditional "AALL All Stars," but thankfully his input was overwhelmingly and soundly crushed by the other coaches, and so we have a team name with some personality.
In deference to Coach Kraynyk's love of tradition, however, after a one-year experiment our travel team is back to the classic Arabian-American baseball colors of gold and green. The green matches the color of the Saudi flag, and the yellow is a nod to French's mustard, which goes great on hot dogs at Major League ballparks. Coach Kraynyk wanted Canadian red as a highlight color, but, again, his input was overwhelmingly and soundly crushed by the other coaches.
Yes, "Knights" has personality. Simply read the description of a medieval knight at thinkquest.org:
"The knight was one of three types of fighting men during the middle ages: Knights, Foot
Soldiers, and Archers. The medieval knight was the equivalent of the modern tank. He was
covered in multiple layers of armor, and could plow through foot soldiers standing in his way.
No single foot soldier or archer could stand up to any one knight."
(http://library.thinkquest.org/10949/fief/medknight.html)
Or check out this clip from one of the most-famous baseball movies of all time:
You don't know the movie The Natural? Well, rent it tonight. It's about a guy who was once a baseball phenom who never had a chance to become the star he wanted to become. Much later in life he tries to make a comeback. Believe me, all baseball fans know who Roy Hobbs is, fictional or not.
It's a great story, which reminds me of a great quotation from 1001 Arabian Nights: "People need stories, more than bread itself. They teach us how to live, and why."
And so, this is the beginning of our story. What will happen?
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