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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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After the rains came the games, for most of the summer collegiate and amateur baseball leagues (SCABL) throughout the country. Hey, it’s not raining everywhere in the USA is it? There are tons of great games all over the map. Here are some of the box scores and game recaps I am following this morning,…
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Edenton, North Carolina sits about 75 miles south of my home in Virginia Beach. The route includes all that I love about Southeastern Virginia and Northeastern/Intercoastal North Carolina – beautiful farms that stretch as far as thee eye can see, scenic bridges spanning rivers and local waterways, open road highways with nothing much but the…
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The summer collegiate and amateur baseball league (SCABL) season is just a few weeks old and there has already been tons of great baseball played already. Teams from Newport, Rhode Island to Green Bay, Wisconsin are packing baseball fields and historic stadiums with family, friends, and fans of summer baseball. The rain has been an…
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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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Wednesday Morning Visit To Houston’s Daikin Park, Home Of The Houston Astros
Last week, on my business trip for ABF Freight to Houston, I had some time Wednesday morning to check out a new baseball stadium. Actually,…
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Some Personal News – The Baseball Storyteller Also A Grant Writer
Some personal news as we end March of 2025. I recently enrolled in and completed a very intense online course in grant writing. The course…
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Tuesday Morning Visit To Sugar Land Space Cowboys And Constellation Field
Last week on my business trip to Houston for ABF Freight, I had some personal time in the morning to check out local baseball experiences.…
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Sunday Afternoon Visit To Rice University Baseball’s Reckling Park
Last week, I was in Houston, Texas for business (ABF Freight). As I do when I travel, I compile an area search of baseball fields,…
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The Jerseys, The Hats, The Swag – A Fan’s visit To Several Minor League Baseball Team Stores
The 2024 Minor League Baseball Season is nearing an end for some, and has already finished for others. I myself, along with Rachel, will be going to my last Norfolk Tides home game tomorrow night (weather permitting), as the Tides wrap up their last homestand of the 2024 AAA season vs the Nashville Sounds. Not…
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Revisiting Baseball History through the Charles J Muth Museum at Hinchcliffe Stadium
During my recent work trip to Paterson, New Jersey for ABF Freight, I had some free time Wednesday morning to explore a very important baseball museum. An important baseball museum located next to a historic baseball and sports arena – Paterson, New Jersey’s iconic Hinchcliffe Stadium. This was my second trip to Hinchcliffe and my…
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The New Jersey Baseball Experience – The Boss, Ole Blue Eyes, A Baseball Match
This week, I am back in New Jersey for work (ABF Freight) and decided to check out some local NJ baseball experiences. As I typically do, I opened Google Maps and searched the area around my hotel to see what, if anything, looked baseball-interesting. Hoboken, West New York, and Paterson all had interesting places, so…
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Could A Summer Collegiate Baseball League Financially Lure A Star Player To Join Their League Over Another?
Good Sunday morning to you. I want to start this blog by stating that everything I am about to write is based on a hypothetical question, my personal opinion, and my personal speculation. I have no first hand knowledge of any such summer collegiate baseball league, player, coach, organization currently doing what I am suggesting…
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The Players I Follow – A New Page On Baseball Storyteller Website
During a rare moment when I was watching something other than baseball, I found myself watching the Kansas City Chiefs vs the Baltimore Ravens. But I was really just interested in watching QB extraordinaire Patrick Mahomes. I couldn’t help think of why I would just watch Patrick Mahomes, and not the game itself. I’m not…
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New Baseball Maps Page ON Baseball Storyteller Website Spotlights My Experiences
I wanted to share with you an exciting new page I am working on. It is a maps page of baseball experiences I have been on for the past decade and beyond. You can see places I have visited, attended games, witness baseball history, and so much more. You can view stadiums and Tee Ball…
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