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Here you will find baseball stories about players, fields, coaches, history, the present, and the experience of baseball.
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Summer collegiate and amateur baseball leagues (SCABL) all over the USA celebrated the 4th of July with baseball, family fun, fireworks, and so much more. It has been a very exciting summer season and July has so much more to offer fans and families of summer baseball. Here are the stories, game recaps, box scores,…
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Here is a story for you. There is a lot about the modern game of baseball that I am still learning about. Software, technology, and modern conveniences have taken over for things like stop watches, clipboards, and putting down three fingers for a slider. Case in point – for most of professional baseball, when a…
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Full disclosure – For years, I have attended Major League and Minor League Baseball games having purchased a ticket to the game, and never once sat in the seat I purchased. I’m not alone, a lot of fans buy tickets to games in the “nosebleed” sections of stadiums and simply seat jump or stand in…
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A To Z Challenge 10 – The Places I Ain’t Been To Yet
Tomorrow afternoon, weather permitting, I will catch my first game at Richmond, VA’s Virginia Commonwealth University. The VCU Rams play at a baseball stadium called “The Diamond,” and coincidentally are playing another team of Rams, The University of Rhode Island Rams to be exact. I missed the URI “Rhody” Rams when they played William and…
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Wednesday Afternoon Baseball Featuring Christopher Newport University Vs. US Coast Guard Academy
Before the start of the 2025 NCAA Baseball season, I had an opportunity to chat with several NCAA Head Coaches and players about their upcoming season. One of those head coaches was John Harvell, the HC of the Christopher Newport University Captains baseball team. Christopher Newport is located in Newport News, about a 40 minute…
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Go Pro After High School Or Go To College – A Tale Of Two Top Pitching Prospects
It has been a few years since I have been active on Facebook. My choice, nothing bad happened, I just like other social media sites better and feel they fit my profile better. When I was active on Facebook, I posted a poll for the “fans” and “friends” of my baseball page and asked this…
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A To Z Challenge 9 – MLB Players Who Have Had Tommy John Surgery
When I say “ulnar collateral ligament,” how many of you know where that is on your body? How about Tommy John Surgery, ever heard of that procedure? Tommy John was the first of tens of thousands of athletes to have the ulnar collateral ligament of his upper arm/elbow area repaired surgically by this special procedure…
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A Conversation With The Sensational Caricature Artist And All Around Good Guy – Ryan Snarr
Growing up in Rhode Island, I was introduced to the world of sports cartoons as a kid reading the Providence Journal sports pages. Later in life, I worked with a pretty famous cartoonist, Frankie Galasso, on a number of his freelance projects. And one of the coolest moments of my baseball experience blogging was interviewing,…
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SCABL Box Scores And Game Recaps – May 29, 2025
Box scores and recaps for May 29th: Futures League – New England based, 6 team Summer Collegiate Baseball League, founded in 2011 The Peninsula Pilots…
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Introducing Summer Collegiate And Amateur Baseball League Box Scores And Recaps Page
For some teams, the summer collegiate and amateur baseball season of 2025 has begun. For others, it is literally hours and days away from their…
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It Is Time to Break Out The Ultimate Slump Busting Red Sox Routine
The Boston Red Sox lost this afternoon to the Milwaukee Brewers. After being up late in the game, as late as the 10th inning, the…
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What Does Memorial Day Mean To You?
On most days, I write baseball stories about a player who I follow or a game I attended or a stadium I have visited. Perhaps…
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A Tuesday Morning Trip To Tampa Tarpons, George Steinbrenner Field At NYY Complex
Last week, I was in Tampa, Florida for work (ABF Freight). During my stay, I discovered that the Tampa area has an abundance of baseball experiences including but not limited to a Major League franchise (Tampa Bay Rays), a Minor League club (Tampa Tarpons), and a MLB Spring Training site (NY Yankees). It is home…
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Happy 80th Birthday Dad, Thanks For The Baseball Lesson
My Dad, Mark Sydney Roby, turned 80 years old this past week. January 9, 1945; born in Chattanooga, Tennessee; a self-described Army Brat; fanatic reader of science, space, and medicine; still cracking jokes at 80 years of age. My dad resides in a VA home now in Rhode Island, battling the effects of diabetes and…
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Getting To Know The Peninsula Pilots Director of On-Field Gameday Operations Perry Woods
Summer collegiate wooden bat league baseball, for my time and money, is the number one baseball experience on my baseball schedule every year. If I have a choice between several baseball experiences that fall on the same day, summer collegiate baseball wins out nearly every time with very few exceptions. Back in New England, I…
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An Impressive 1964 Topps Collectible Baseball Coin Lineup Featuring Mays, Spahn, Bunning, and Zimmer
My grandfather on my Dad’s side was a sport nut. He was into golf, tennis, squash, hiking the woods, and was by most family member’s recollections a very fit man until his death. He dabbled in football with the NY Giants. That was pretty much it for major sports leagues – he was far too…
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Dwight Gooden Should Be In The National Baseball Hall Of Fame
Let me take you inside the mind of a baseball tangent extraordinaire – yours truly. So, I am working my way through Jane Leavy’s biography of Sandy Koufax, “A Lefty’s Legacy,” and loving every page of it. Also on my mind is an upcoming trip to Tampa, FL for work (ABF Freight), and I have…
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A Wintry Walk Around Williamsburg, William & Mary’s Plumeri Baseball Park
Saturday afternoon, after being mostly sick for 2 straight weeks, Rachel and I ventured out of Virginia Beach for a day-cation adventure in nearby Williamsburg, VA. Williamsburg is a short drive, about 45 minutes or so, from our home in VA Beach. Our agenda was pretty much an open book – stop in at Colonial…
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