The temperature yesterday here in Virginia Beach was around 70 degrees. It’s late January and I am having to choose which pair of shorts I am wearing out of the house? Definitely a good problem to have. With the weather being so nice … Continue reading A Warm Thursday Visit To First Colonial High School Baseball Field
After taking several exploratory trips into and out of Norfolk via I-264 these past few months, I couldn’t help notice the campus of Norfolk State University. You can see the campus clear as day from both sides of the highway, especially … Continue reading Tuesday Afternoon Visit To Norfolk State’s Marty Miller Baseball Field
It is January. It is Winter. And yet, there are so many cool baseball stories out there to be found here in Virginia Beach and Hampton Roads. So, when you want to gain some local baseball knowledge, you prepare. Layers, warm gloves, hat, and … Continue reading A Sunday Blustery Princess Anne Baseball Field Winter Walk
One of the great things about research is the discovery of interesting items not on your research list. I am dating myself but when I was a school aged lad, we had to go to the library and read books, encyclopedias, … Continue reading A Winter Visit To Kempsville High School Reveals A Familiar Multi-Sport Star
Don’t you just love tangents? You know, when you are on one path and suddenly another very interesting path opens up and you head down there full speed? Like for example, I was out the other day with Rachel and the Weims … Continue reading A Walk Down Memory Lane Introduces Me To The Kempsville Pony Baseball Story
In the Spring and Summer of 2023, I began researching baseball played at North Kingstown’s Quonset Point Naval Air Station. Quonset Point or the Quonset Development Corporation, now a thriving business community, was once a commissioned naval air station and occupied … Continue reading The Fields Where The Quonset Flyers Faced NAS Norfolk, Little Creek Baseball Teams
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