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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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On Saturday, January 17th I will be hosting a baseball show and tell event here in Virginia Beach, VA. The event will take place at the Bayside Library, which is located off Independence Blvd, across from the Haygood Shopping Center …
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My paternal grandfather, the late great Richard Roby, was a huge influence in my life. As an athlete, he taught me competitiveness and never underestimating my opponent. In life, he taught me to find moderation in how I approached good …
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Starting with an article I published last month from Murray State University’s Steve Adkins, I will be sharing other baseball writer’s baseball news from around the (their) baseball world in 2026 and beyond. To date, I have mostly written, photographed, …
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The Baseball Books I Experienced In 2025 – Koufax, Williams, Apatow, and More
2025 marked a reading resurgence for me personally. As a child, I visited my local library (Wickford, RI) and read books about as often as I played baseball. Books were an escape from reality and a resource for knowledge and …
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A North Pole Snowball Incident Produces A Gift Out Of Nowhere
A Gift Out Of Nowhere In the fall of 2010, 10 year old Timothy Anderson of Crestwood Hills, California wrote a letter to Santa Claus. Anderson was a music lover, a fan of rock and roll, took music lessons, and …
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Sharing Exciting Press Release For Newport Gulls 25th anniversary Weekend
Are you a fan of the New England Collegiate Baseball League’s Newport Gulls? Have you attended a game or two (or 1,000) at historic Cardines Field in Newport, Rhode Island? Have you coached for the Newport Gulls in previous seasons? …
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Murray State Baseball Coach Posts Living Tribute to Siena’s Tony Rossi
This week, I received a powerful email from Murray State University (Racers) Pitching Coach Steve Adkins about a coaching icon who had a profound effect on his baseball career. In Coach Adkins’ email, he described the incredible personal impact former …
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Sharing 2025 Futures League Awards Announcement
Yesterday afternoon, I received an exciting communication from The Futures League and Joshua Kummins, Associate Commissioner & Director of Media Relations. The Futures League, per their official website, is “summer collegiate baseball at its best, having been regarded as one …
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A Happy New Years Day Filled With Happy Memories Of Fenway South
Happy New Years to you and your family. I hope 2026 is a healthy, prosperous, and interesting year for me personally, so I wish the…
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Sharing: Fairfield U. Honors Legendary Athletics Director and Baseball Coach C. Donald Cook ’63
This morning, I was leafing through some old(er) emails and found this Fairfield University press release sent to me about 2 years ago. I am…
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The Great Baseball Signs, Statues, Plaques, And Memorials I Experienced in 2025
2025 was another amazing year of baseball experiences. From Texas to Chicago, Worcester to Norfolk, and so many other cool places in between I stopped…
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Anyone Have An Issue With Team USA’s 2026 World Baseball Classic™ Roster?
The World Baseball Classic™ is scheduled to kick off in early March of 2026. Select countries from all over the world are in the process…
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Sharing 2025 Futures League Awards Announcement
Yesterday afternoon, I received an exciting communication from The Futures League and Joshua Kummins, Associate Commissioner & Director of Media Relations. The Futures League, per their official website, is “summer collegiate baseball at its best, having been regarded as one …
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Baseball Book Review – “The Natural” By Bernard Malamud
Of all the baseball movies ever produced, I would rank “The Natural” as one of my favorites. Likely 1 or 2 if I had to really sit down and compare “The Natural” versus others like “The Sandlot,” “Field of Dreams,” …
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Thinking Of My Fellow Rhode Islanders After Brown University Incident
I was gutted to see the horrific news over the past 24 hours at Providence, RI’s Brown University. Watching it from six states away, the news of the on-campus incident really hit home. I know the area very well, I …
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The Next Round Begins With A Christmas Theme – Naughty Or Nice
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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The Baseball Storyteller Stories Come Alive In Show And Tell Event
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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A Nostalgic Look At Sports Reporters On Sunday Mornings
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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