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Box scores and recaps for May 29th: Futures League – New England based, 6 team Summer Collegiate Baseball League, founded in 2011 The Peninsula Pilots kicked off their 2025 summer collegiate baseball season last night at home vs the Greenville Gnomes at historic War Memorial Stadium, Hampton, VA. The Peninsula Pilots play in the Coastal…
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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 Game 1 start of the season. There are so many amazing teams, matchups, events, and games I am following this year. And I thought it would be cool to share…
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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 Sox fell to the Brewers in extra innings by a score of 6-5. Last night, the Sox lost to the Brewers 5-1, also in extra innings. The night before, they…
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Saturday Morning Visit to Sacramento State And Hornets Baseball Field
On my travels back to the airport to come home from a business trip to Sacramento for ABF Freight, I decided to stop in at nearby California State University at Sacramento. The university, the football field, the campus, and baseball field will literally on the way, plus I needed gas for my rental car. So…
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I’m Sorry, Did The Much Hyped Dodgers vs. Yankees World Series End Already?
With the New York Yankees winning the 2024 American League Pennant and the Los Angeles Dodgers winning the 2024 National League Pennant, the 2024 World Series was supposed to be an epically historical baseball matchup. You have the two biggest media markets in New York and Los Angeles. You have stars on the field like…
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Friday Afternoon Visit To Sutter Health Park, Home Of The Sacramento Rivercats
Last week, I was on the west coast on assignment for ABF Freight. Sacramento, California to be exact. After a busy week of work and a cool experience at the Golden 1 Center to see the Sacramento Kings play the Portland Trailblazers, I had some personal time on Friday to explore Sacramento’s baseball fields and…
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How Club Baseball Extends The Baseball Life Of The College Student-Athlete
I have a ton of respect for student-athletes. In order to be good at math, most people have to work at it. In order to be good at relationships, most people have to work at it. In order to hit a baseball fair 3 out of 10 times, you guessed it, you have to work…
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Can We some how, Some Way Summon The Voice Of The Dodgers To Call this Series?
If you are smarter than me, which isn’t saying much, can you make this happen? Through the power of software and ingenuity, can you have the voice of the late, great Vin Scully call the 2024 World Series, featuring the New York Yankees and his beloved Los Angeles Dodgers? Can you take all those decades…
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A To Z Challenge 3 – Baseball Terminology You Might Hear At A Ballpark
Before you go there, take your head out of the sewer. This is a family blog and there will be no swearing or sexist comments…
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A to Z Challenge Number 2 – My Boston Red Sox
Tonight is Night #2 of my A to Z Challenge. For those of you who missed Challenge Number 1, you can read all of the…
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My Predictions For The 2025 Baseball Season
Good morning baseball fans. I apologize for the lateness of this blog. I typically make a fool out of myself, I mean predict the future…
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A To Z Challenge Number 1 – Baseball Parks Visited
Here is an interesting (well, at least to my small brain) challenge to take part in and potentially answer me back on. Can you go…
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Baseball Book Review – K, A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches by Tyler Kepner
Whether you are kid in your backyard or a 50 something has been (me), a game of catch is really something special, isn’t it? So, what constitutes a game of catch? At its core, it is two individuals standing several feet to yards apart tossing a football, a softball, a baseball back and forth. But…
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Wednesday Night Baseball Fireworks Featuring Peninsula Pilots vs. Wilson Tobs
Wednesday here in Virginia Beach turned out to be another scorcher. With temperatures climbing into the 90s and the humidity/dew point nearly matching it, it was just downright hot. Tropical, I think that’s what the WAVY TV10 weatherman coined it, tropical heat. Well, nothing beats the summer heat here in Hampton Roads like the wooden…
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Monday Night Tidewater Summer League Baseball Featuring VB Valor vs. Coastal Coconuts
Monday night, with the heat index exceeding 100° here in Virginia Beach, I did what most people do in the summer to beat the heat. I convinced my wife to take in a summer collegiate baseball game. What would you do in a situation like that, go to a beach??? Come on, it’s summer time…
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Rhode Island’s Addison Kopack Collects Milestone Hit With The El Paso Chihuahuas
Like every other Rhode Island baseball player in professional baseball, Addison Kopack has a great story. A Cumberland High School standout, a coveted roster spot on the University of Rhode Island baseball team, working through a non-season in 2020 due to Covid, summer baseball for the Mystic Schooners of the New England Collegiate Baseball League,…
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The Live Action, In Game Baseball Interview – A Fan’s Reaction
If you have been to a thousand baseball games, played in several hundred, coached nearly a hundred, watched baseball on TV religiously since you were in diapers, and written about baseball for nearly 5 decades – would you consider yourself a pretty good judge of character when it comes to baseball stuff? Cool, I would…
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Rhode Island’s Thomas Pannone Putting Together Impressive Season for Iowa Cubs
I admit it. Despite relocating to Virginia Beach and with all due respect to the multitudes of baseball players and talent here in Hampton Roads, I still find myself checking box scores for Rhode Island players, teams, leagues, and those amazing RI Baseball Experiences. The Northeast path to professional baseball isn’t quite the same as…
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