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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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When the calendar strikes anew every January, youth baseball leagues from California to Maine start to crank up the hype machine for the upcoming baseball season. Whether you are scheduling your Opening Day in February, March, or May your league …
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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 same to you. For the past few weeks, I have been reorganizing photos, books on …
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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 not entirely sure why I did not post or share it, but I say better …
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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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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…
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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. …
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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…
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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…
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The Final Round of Baseball Blind Auditions Welcomes Four, Exits Four
After a week of rather unseasonable temperatures here in Hampton Roads, an announcement of Jeff Kent as the Contemporary Eras Committee’s 2026 HOF selection, and a bit of snow we are now back with the final round of the baseball …
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Baseball Book Review – “Baseball’s Great Expectations” by Patrick Montgomery
Last week, I visited Bayside Library here in my hometown of Virginia Beach, VA. I was in the library for another purpose but decided to take advantage of the time to peruse through their Sports section for baseball books. In …
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The Baseball Blind Auditions Produce Three More Winners, Three More Shown The Door
After a few commercial breaks and a trip to Winter Wonderland in Williamsburg, I am back this morning with more exciting baseball blind audition matchups. The prize, the ultimate prize these contestants are vying for? Well, it looks something like …
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An A To Z Baseball Field Experience Gallery, 2025 Edition
2025 produced another zillion or so baseball memories for me. I traveled north, south, east, and west in search of cool baseball fields, awesome baseball stadiums, and interesting baseball sights. I was so lucky to have the opportunity to visit …
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The Baseball Blind Auditions Welcome Two New Members, Show Two The Door
The blind auditions continue today with two more exciting head to head matchups. All of the participants are eligible and well deserving and were great baseball talents in their careers. In the head to head matchups, one will be welcomed …
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Who Will Move On, Who Will Go Home In This Episode OF The Blind Auditions
Okay we are back now for more head to head matchups in this blind audition format. If you missed any of the first episode, here are the rules, the premise, and the opening matchup of the blind auditions featuring 27 …
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