I was really into baseball as a kid. The could not play enough baseball. So I played all the time and was great at it. In third grade, one of my classmates, who was also considered one of the best players in little league, and I had a bit of a rivalry going. Nothing mean. But our teams were the best, so we had a friendly personal competition.
One of our teachers was a big baseball fan and had put up with us talking shit to each other (again, nothing really mean) all year. Another one of the teachers (we had two part time teachers for our class) had a son who umpires games.
My team was playing the other guy’s team one day, and the second teacher’s son was to umpire. So she was there. And she witnessed me hitting a grand slam as my team went onto win. I’m sure she told the first teacher. I was her absolute favorite for the rest of the year.
Actually, I don’t know if I was playing that guy’s team that day. I think we were playing a different team. Still, it was awesome.