As a native New Englander, anything over 50 degrees in March in Rhode Island is considered a gigantic bonus. Heck, it’s T-shirt weather compared to the typical 30s, 40s, blizzard type conditions of late February and early March. Winter lasts … Continue reading A Friday Afternoon Visit to Bud Metheny Baseball Stadium for Old Dominion vs Northeastern
I enthusiastically applaud Major League Baseball for its newest promotional series called Spring Breakout 2024. What is Spring Breakout and who will be playing? Good question. 30 Major League teams have submitted rosters filled with top minor league prospects – … Continue reading Baseball’s Future Plays This March In Spring Breakout 2024
Last month here in Norfolk, Rachel and I went to an incredible photography exhibit at the Chrysler Museum. The exhibit, believe it or not, was not about baseball. Rather, it was about one of my other passions in life – music. Paul McCartney’s … Continue reading Tales Of The Quonset Flyers Baseball Team – John Patrick, The Missing Man
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
If you watch sports on TV, your phone, your computer these days, you will most likely have seen the following. Former professional athletes joined at a desk or round table by one or two sports journalists, plus a few on TVs to the left and right of the screen at any given time. Their purpose – to predict the future and analyze the past and scrutinize the present and above all, entertain the sports fan on their sport of expertise. Could be football, could be basketball, could be a specific conference like the ACC or SEC, could be baseball. Whatever the sport, you can rest … Continue reading My Top 8 Professional Baseball Predictions for 2024
The Major League Baseball Winter Meetings are set to begin today, December 3rd, in Nashville, TN. Trade rumors and free agent potential landing spots for coveted pitchers, fielders, home run hitters are being debated on social media sites, airport gate … Continue reading The Neighborhood Backyard Baseball Games We Played – First to 500
Baseball has a wonderful way of connecting communities, states, generations through players, stats, and fun facts. You can be a stranger in a new town and see a baseball picture on a wall in a retail store, point out to … Continue reading The Baseball Connection Linking Virginia Beach to Newport, RI – Chris Taylor
For the youth baseball family, at least those that I have covered over the past 10 years or so, there are places on the baseball map that just seem to be a little more special than the rest. Off the … Continue reading The Ripken Experience – Is This Baseball Utopia? No It’s Aberdeen
Tuesday afternoon, following my work assignment in Baltimore with ABF Freight, I hopped in my rental car to take a trip east to Aberdeen, MD. My visit had two purposes, one of which I will share with you now. The … Continue reading Tuesday Afternoon Trip To Visit The Aberdeen Iron Birds, Leidos Field at Ripken Stadium
This past week, I was back in Baltimore for another assignment for ABF Freight. I flew in rather early on Sunday and landed at BWI Airport around 2pm, a short flight from my new place in Virginia Beach, VA. There … Continue reading Sunday Afternoon in College Park, Maryland – Fall Baseball, Jim Henson, Looney’s Pub
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