There is a ton of great baseball news happening right now. Here are the baseball stories I am following today, Sunday May 25, 2025. The University of Rhode Island Rhody Rams baseball team has won the Atlantic 10 Conference Championship. … Continue reading Here Are The Baseball Stories I am Following Today – Rams, Jorge, Bryant, Mayer, and More
This A to Z Challenge rolls on tonight with a bit of a tangent. And it is partially inspired by the book I just finished about a baseball team that traveled the globe way back in the late 1800s. The … Continue reading A To Z Challenge 4 – The Cities and Towns I Have Visited
I just finished reading a very interesting baseball book. The book’s characters are real, they played professional baseball circa late 1800s to early 1900s. The book’s title, “Spalding’s World Tour” references a real person, Albert Spalding, the former professional baseball … Continue reading Baseball Book Review – Spalding’s World Tour By Mark Lamster
Last Saturday was a work day for me (ABF Freight) in Dallas. So, after work, I took the short drive north from the Dallas Terminal to Frisco, Texas to check out the Frisco RoughRiders baseball experience. I found parking in … Continue reading A Saturday Afternoon Visit To Frisco Rough Riders Baseball Field
Last week, I was back in Dallas, Texas for work (ABF Freight) and decided to check out some more baseball experiences. According to a Google search of “baseball fields,” two Texas Rangers fields were listed – Globe Life Park and … Continue reading A Friday Afternoon Visit To Arlington’s Texas Rangers Baseball Fields Past and Present
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 … Continue reading Happy 80th Birthday Dad, Thanks For The Baseball Lesson
Saturday afternoon, after being mostly sick for 2 straight weeks, Rachel and I ventured out of Virginia Beach for a day-cation adventure in nearby Williamsburg, VA. Williamsburg is a short drive, about 45 minutes or so, from our home in … Continue reading A Wintry Walk Around Williamsburg, William & Mary’s Plumeri Baseball Park
I was thinking about the autobiography of Jackie Robinson, “I Never Had It Made,” I recently finished. Especially today, when MLB celebrates that famous day when Jackie Robinson played in his first Major League Baseball game for the Brooklyn Dodgers. … Continue reading Seeing 42 All Over The Baseball World Today Leads To Engaging Future Generations of Fans
On the first floor of the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY there is a large room with hundreds of plaques mounted to the walls. On each plaque is a singular, outstanding individual whose contribution to the game … Continue reading The RIBBE Takes A Road Trip To Cooperstown, NY – Part 6, The Plaque Room
As I was photographing and cataloguing Rhode Island references in the National Baseball Hall of Fame, I could not help but stop at just about every single exhibit to read up on the then and now of baseball. The Baseball … Continue reading The RIBBE Takes A Road Trip To Cooperstown, NY – Part 5, The Then And Now Of Baseball
The Baseball Storyteller 