Colin's First Pitch--Lake County Captains

My grandson, Colin Jude, made his first appearance in a professional baseball game today when he threw out the first pitch at a Lake County Captains baseball game. Colin seems to be ambidextrous at this point, throwing both right handed and left handed. His first pitch, from the southpaw side, was thrown at age 1 (OK, 54 weeks). It's thought that the pitch was a slider, about 5 miles per hour. If he can add 5 miles per hour every year until he is 20, he'll be throwing 100-miles-an-hour smoke by the year 2030.

At the game were Colin's parents, grandparents, Uncle Nicky Kleppel, and Fr. Tom Tifft, of Borromeo Seminary (in case we needed any divine intervention). There were also about 7 rabbis throwing out pitches--it was Jewish Heritage Day at the park. You think the Lord wasn't paying attention to this event?

Colin is the first Coughlin-relative to appear in a minor league game since Connie Coughlin, my grandfather and Colin's great great grandfather, played in the Three-I League around 1916 (I think my Grampa played for the Rockford, Illinois "Wakes" or "Rox").