Whether you played travel softball for a year or your whole life, there's some aspects of the game that only softball players would understand. Between the team bonding, skinned knees, and sunburns, summer ball players have a bond that can't be broken. Here's nine things you know to be true if you played travel softball:

1. The tan-lines.

You guys know what I'm talking about. Those tan-lines would stick around all the way until the next summer season rolled around.

2. Weekends are for softball, not hanging out with friends.

At some point along the way, your friends wouldn't even ask you to hang out on the weekends because the answer was always the same: I have softball.

3. Road trips with your family.

After a few hours in the car, you would rather have an 8:00am Saturday game than sit through another minute of the 80s on 8 radio station.

4. Over-the-night tournaments were always the most fun.

Let's be honest: sometimes the nights spent causing trouble with your teammates were more fun than actually playing softball.

5. Softball moms are the best moms.

Softball moms are a special breed of awesome. Band-Aids? Got it. Water bottles? Got it. Snack bag? Got it. During the summer, you not only have your mom, but about eleven other wonderful women that claim you as their own.

6. There's something special about showering after a long day at the fields.

Softball produces a special kind of dirty; pretty much the combination of dirt, sweat, and sunscreen. You can hardly get your uniform off fast enough before you literally leap into the shower.

7. Summer ball brings out your inner diva.

There's nothing like the competitive drive that championship Sunday brings. With each win, your inner sass-master rears her ugly head.

8. You can never have too much deodorant.

Seriously. After an entire day at the ball park, even taking a bath in deodorant wouldn't be enough to conquer the stench coming from your dugout.

9. Softball friends are forever friends.

The girls you meet through softball are people you'll love forever. Teammates are forever, especially your travel ball teammates.

Even through the worst batting slumps and trying to claw your way out of the losers bracket, you and I both know that we wouldn't want it any other way.