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Sacrifice Present #2 – Name This Rhode Island Baseball Player

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First things, First as they say…The first of 12 Lucky Winners in the 12 Sacrifice Presents Holiday Trivia Contest courtesy of Axis Bats is Adryan Urena. Adryan, along with close to 100 responses correctly identified Rhode Island College, Newport Gulls Head Coach Frank Holbrook. Thank you for the amazing first day of responses and let’s give another bat away today… Name this Rhode Island Baseball Player: Think you know the answer? Great, message me by filling out this contact form and check back here tomorrow to find out if you won a Sacrifice Present courtesy of Axis Bats. Find more … Continue reading Sacrifice Present #2 – Name This Rhode Island Baseball Player

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Sacrifice Present #1 – Name This Rhode Island Baseball Coach

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12 Sacrifice Presents for 12 Lucky Trivia Contest Winners, courtesy of Axis Bats, starts…NOW Name this Rhode Island Baseball Coach: Think you know the answer? Great, message me by filling out this contact form and check back here tomorrow to … Continue reading Sacrifice Present #1 – Name This Rhode Island Baseball Coach

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The Rhode Island Baseball Experience Final Swings – The Tee Ball Program

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Most baseball players will tell you that they started their baseball career in a Tee Ball program. It is true that some skip the Tee Ball days and go right to hitting live off a coach or even further, off another Little Leaguer. The Tee Ball Program is designed to be fun, engaging, instructional, and to introduce players and parents into the world of organized baseball. What’s great about Tee Ball? Well, how much time do you have? It is a non-competitive, memories galore, photographer’s dream, incredibly family orientated baseball program that draws some of the largest crowds in most … Continue reading The Rhode Island Baseball Experience Final Swings – The Tee Ball Program

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12 Sacrifice Presents For 12 Lucky Rhode Island Baseball Trivia Winners In December Courtesy of Axis Bats

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Yesterday morning, I took the drive out to the Axis Bat Headquarters and Factory on Anawan Street in Fall River. Owner Lou Ledoux greeted me with a big hello as we was finishing up a project in the factory and … Continue reading 12 Sacrifice Presents For 12 Lucky Rhode Island Baseball Trivia Winners In December Courtesy of Axis Bats

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The Rhode Island Baseball Experience Final Swings – The Genesis

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The Rhode Island Baseball Experience got its start way, way back on the fields of Hamilton Elementary School in Wickford, RI in the mid 1970s. A young 5 to 6-ish boy with a glove and St. Bernard’s Saints hat ran out onto the open fields of Hamilton Elementary and played baseball in the Tee Ball program for Wickford Little League. From there, this baseball loving lad adapted his swing to his favorite player, whose name he couldn’t spell and used the popular short version (Yaz) to explain to people why he batted left handed. Many others in his Kindergarten class … Continue reading The Rhode Island Baseball Experience Final Swings – The Genesis

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The Rhode Island Baseball Experience To Take Its Final Swings This December

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First off, I hope everyone in the Rhode Island Baseball Community had a safe and healthy Thanksgiving holiday weekend. It’s also so great to get in front of family, connect with old/recent high school friends, and just soak in all … Continue reading The Rhode Island Baseball Experience To Take Its Final Swings This December

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The Sacrifice Present – Connecting Those That Have With Those That Need

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In just about every level of baseball, the word “sacrifice” is used to describe a play or a commitment a player exercises so another teammate(s)’s situation improves in the game. There is the sacrifice bunt, where a player gives up his/her at bat to advance a runner on the base paths by laying down a bunt instead of swinging for the fences. There is the sacrifice fly, where a player drives the ball in the air to the outfield far enough for a runner (after the baseball is caught) to tag and advance to another base. In a close game, … Continue reading The Sacrifice Present – Connecting Those That Have With Those That Need

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Winter Clinics, Brew Tour, Post-Turkey Day Workouts, And More Baseball News

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Happy Saturday morning to everyone in the Rhode Island Baseball Community. I have a few local Rhode Island baseball events happening soon to share with you that stretch from URI to Tiverton to North Smithfield. And an overdue shout out to a Rhode Island fall baseball league champion from Warwick North. Have a day and be thankful we didn’t get 5 + feet of snow dumped on us!!! 2022 Winter College Showcase Date: Sunday – December 11th Time: 9am-1pm Venue: Longplex Family and Sports Center Address: 300 Industrial Way, Tiverton, RI 02878 Colleges in Attendance: Rhode Island College, Babson College, … Continue reading Winter Clinics, Brew Tour, Post-Turkey Day Workouts, And More Baseball News

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A Baseball Journey Back To The Mound, Featuring North Kingstown’s Henry Hersum

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A few months have passed since I had an update to share with you regarding a very talented right handed Pitcher from North Kingstown and Rhode Island’s Prout School – Henry Hersum. Henry found out in his Spring Collegiate baseball season with Virginia’s Old Dominion University that he had sustained a UCL (Ulnar Collateral Ligament) injury and would require season ending Tommy John surgery to repair his arm. Back in the late Spring, early Summer, I connected with Henry and his family on the injury, how it happened, and asked Henry if he would like to document his journey from … Continue reading A Baseball Journey Back To The Mound, Featuring North Kingstown’s Henry Hersum

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Nine Rhode Island Professional Baseball Players Connect East Coast to West Coast

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If you are a professional Rhode Island baseball fan, like myself, you find new and inventive ways to cheer on our Rhode Island baseball players, coaches, and teams. Case in point – the other day I was reading an article … Continue reading Nine Rhode Island Professional Baseball Players Connect East Coast to West Coast