Evan Broussard (right) holds the queen bee on his finger, along with the plastic honey comb. On left is Leyton Jones who has kept the bee in his baseball bag for the last three years.
Leyton Jones’ grandmother took a picture of the bee sitting in the dugout on a cell phone during a game. It was the first time she saw it in the dugout.
This is close up of the Bee
QSA bringing ‘Queen Bee’ to World Series
It is not surprising to learn that some teams have a good luck charm. The QSA 12-year-and under All-Star Team has its good luck charm, and it’s heading to Loredo, Texas, with them.
The QSA 12s recently qualified for the Bronco World Series, which features eight teams from around the World. QSA’s first game is against Japan on Friday.
Joining the team in the dugout will be “Queen Bee.”
Queen Bee is a plastic bee that stays in a plastic honeycomb. When the all-stars are not playing, that bee stays in the honeycomb inside the bat bag of player Layton Jones.
Jones, 12, has kept the bee in his bag for the last three years as a good luck charm.
This season, however, the bee has surfaced out of the bag in the dugout to watch the game.
Player Evan Broussard is in charge of holding and caring for the bee during the games. When the team is warming up, the bee sits on Leyton’s bag, watching them practice.
During the game, the bee sits near the fence inside the dugout.
This bee and honeycomb have a story behind it. It represents the “Queen Bee.”
Leyton’s great-grandmother, Anne Falcon, was called the “Queen Bee” by her daughter Anna Romero (Leyton’s grandmother).
Leyton called his great-grandmother “Old grandma.”
Three years ago, Old Grandma passed away. Leyton was eight years old at the time of her death.
The Easter after her death, Leyon went on an Easter Hunt, and the first egg he found was the honeycone egg and there was a plastic bee inside.
He told his mother, Jana, and his grandmother that it was meant to be that he found the plastic bee. It was a sign from Old Grandma, he told them.
He did not tell his grandmother that he kept the bee in his batting bag for the last three years.
For the first time, Anna Romero saw the bee during an all-star game this summer. It was sitting in the dugout watching the game.
“I was pleasantly surprised,” said Romero.
The bee is doing its job. QSA sports a 27-2-1 record going into Friday’s World Series.
On Facebook, Romero thanked her grandson.
“Thank you, Evan, for keeping Queen Bee in good hands! Queen Bee will be heading to Laredo, Texas, this week!”