One of our last catches resulted with him missing a ball (knuckleball) that hit him in the nose. He held that one against me for a while, but we eventually had a handful of very soft catches later on when my brother was also involved. Sigh...

I like the drive and use it for good, but sometimes I just want to take it easy on myself.

As I said in a reply above, the abuse from his Father to mine ended right there. It will never continue on my behalf.

Go get some gloves and throw with some kids there. Make some new worn out patches.