"Pick-Up League" from the Martin & Sylvia collection

Sparkle Stories Podcast

Lisabeth Sewell

Audio, Kids & Family, Stories, Stories For Kids, Children, Kids

4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

This week's featured story comes from the Martin & Sylvia collection.

It's called "Pick-Up League."

Martin wants to join little league baseball like his friend Peter, but Momma and Daddy say he isn’t old enough for organized sports. He has to be nine. Nine! Martin is amazed! But that doesn’t mean there’s no baseball for Martin. Daddy pulls together a pick-up game with friends; flexible rules, bat and ball options, and many creative calls from the sidelines make the game fun for everyone in the family!

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone.
0:09.6	It's the Sparkle Stories podcast.
0:12.8	This is Elizabeth of Sparkle Stories.
0:15.3	And today we have yet another of your favorite stories featured here on the podcast. Today's comes from Sterling.
0:24.9	Sterling is six, and Sterling has a very favorite Martin and Sylvia's story he would like to
0:29.9	share with you. But before he does, I want to encourage you to consider subscribing. If you're
0:35.9	not a part of the Sparkle community, you can join for free
0:39.1	and try us out. Just go to the website, SparklStories.com, and click the button at the top that says
0:45.0	start free trial. And then you can listen to our entire library of over 1,500 original stories
0:52.4	that are all just as dear as this one.
0:56.7	Okay, now, here is Sterling.
1:00.3	Hi, my name is Sterling.
1:02.5	I picked the story of Pickup Lead from the Martin and Sylvia Collection.
1:09.8	I love the story because I love baseball. I hope you enjoy it. The Pick-Up League
1:33.3	Martin and Sylvia live in a tall house with lots of windows.
1:39.3	From their second-story loft bedroom, they can see their big backyard, where they like to play tag, hide and seek, and lately, baseball.
1:52.5	Martin, who was seven, had a baseball glove and a few different kinds of balls, hard balls and soft balls.
2:00.6	When he played baseball with Mama and Daddy, he used
2:04.5	the hard ball. When he played with Sylvia, who was five, he used the soft ball. She didn't
2:12.0	have a glove, so he had to be careful. Martin also had a friend named Peter who loves baseball. Peter practiced baseball all
2:25.0	the time, and whenever Martin saw him, he was wearing a professional baseball jersey and hat.
2:32.6	Recently, Martin had a play date at his house, and they played baseball the whole time.
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