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Okay, we have made it through the blind audition stage of the contest for a coveted prize that looks something like this… If you recall, we started with 27 eligible and deserving participants and have since dwindled that number to …
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I have been involved with baseball in some capacity for nearly 50 years and running. I have played, coached, mentored, scouted, and written about baseball since I was roughly elementary school age. Over the decades, I have accumulated many, many …
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I have been searching for a word or term that describes the following feeling – things were so much better back in 19XX than they are now. I found a word online, “presentism” that caught my eye but doesn’t really …
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A Saturday San Antonio Sandlot Charity Baseball Game Featuring Roses Vs. Huevos
After my epic Friday Texas Baseball Road Trip (which landed me in San Antonio), I had the weekend off before my next work assignment started on Monday. Roughly a week or so prior to flying down to Texas, I had …
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A Friday Texas Baseball Road Trip From Harlingen To San Antonio – Part 4, Refugio And Recap
Picking up where I left off, Part 3 – Whataburger Field, after one or two last views of the beautiful New Harbor Bridge and Whataburger Field, I set my GPS for one last baseball stop. The Town of Refugio, Texas …
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A Friday Texas Baseball Road Trip From Harlingen To San Antonio – Part 3, Corpus Christi Hooks
Picking up where I left off from Part 2 – Nolan Ryan Field, I set my GPS for the City of Corpus Christi to visit Whataburger Field, home of the Corpus Christi Hooks. The roughly 45 mile trek from Kingsville …
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A Friday Texas Baseball Road Trip From Harlingen To San Antonio – Part 2, Nolan Ryan Field
Picking up from Part I – UTRGV Baseball – I set my GPS to head north to the University of Texas A&M – Kingsville. Why, you might ask? Well, there is a field there at the University that I had …
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A Friday Texas Baseball Road Trip From Harlingen To San Antonio – Part I, UTRGV
Friday morning, I took a baseball road trip starting in Harlingen (Texas) with the goal of reaching San Antonio (TX) later in the day. I had worked in Harlingen for a few days and had another campaign scheduled in San …
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A Blind Audition Featuring 27 Worthy Candidates Vying For One Incredible Prize
One of my wife’s favorite shows is NBC’s “The Voice.” “The Voice” has an interesting audition process, whereby a singer will face a row of…
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Crazy Black Friday Deals To Be Made This Off Season In Major League Baseball
Happy day after Thanksgiving everyone. I hope everyone had an awesome day of food, football, family, and my favorite – all the fixins. This morning,…
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The Beware Of Flying Objects And Other Interesting Baseball Signs Photo Gallery
When I visit a baseball field, one of the first things I look for is a sign. A sign that the field is open to…
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Women’s Pro Baseball League Inaugural Player Draft – Who Went Where And What’s Next
Yesterday, November 20th, the Women’s Pro Baseball League took another step in their league’s evolution – the player draft. The WPBL had previously selected four…
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The Hawaii Islanders And Other Fun Facts About Minor League Baseball Circa 1984
One of my best friends once told me a fun fact about the guitar. Despite playing the instrument for almost 40 years at a professional level, he was still learning notes and chords and interesting things about the guitar. I …
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Before Game 3 Of the 2025 World Series, Here Is A Real Head Scratcher
The Los Angeles Dodgers and the Toronto Blue Jays are about to play in Game 3 of the 2025 World Series. The WS is tied 1 game apiece and the teams will now play on the West Coast in historic …
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Where Will The Next Great Two Way Baseball Player Come From?
For me, the term “two way player” in baseball is defined by two Major League legends – the NY Yankee’s Babe Ruth and current Los Angeles Dodger (LAD) Shohei Ohtani. Its definition does not describe in any way how difficult …
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Sharing Vintage Base Ball Association’s Summer Newsletter, Featuring Baseball Storyteller
This summer, I was lucky enough to attend a Vintage Base Ball game in Hobart, Indiana. The game featured two teams playing vintage base ball rules set in a wonderfully timeless baseball park called Grinders Field. I wrote a blog …
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A Wednesday Morning Visit To Purdue University Northwest, Laborers’ Local 41 Baseball Field
On my recent trip out to the Chicago/NW Indiana area for business (ArcBest), I had some personal time Wednesday to check out some local baseball experiences. One spot that really caught my eye was in nearby Hammond, Indiana (I was …
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A Late Tuesday Afternoon Visit To Four Winds Field, South Bend Cubs
After a spirited hustle around the University of Notre Dame, I was about to head back to my hotel when I called an audible in the ND bookstore parking lot. I mapped out a nearby minor league park and found …
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