Pell Series Baseball Featuring Gulls vs. Waves, Cardines Field

Ok, I just couldn’t resist. My intentions were to go to Cardines Field last night, sit there like all the other fans, take in the game, minimal photos, no notebook, no chicken scratch shorthand, no interviews pre or post game … Continue reading Pell Series Baseball Featuring Gulls vs. Waves, Cardines Field

The Quonset Point Naval Air Station Baseball Experience – The Flyers, The Fields, The Feller

One of the incredible things about researching a topic is the interesting tangents you can encounter along your research expedition. In a previous blog, I mentioned that I had been doing some research on a field of my youth, a … Continue reading The Quonset Point Naval Air Station Baseball Experience – The Flyers, The Fields, The Feller

The Boy Who Threw Strikes – Hang Loose Everybody, Hang Loose

Dougie Walsh had a new grip on the baseball that allowed him to experiment with a wide range of pitches. His youth coaches had always preached throwing strikes and pitching to contact. Dougie, with his insane accuracy, often took this … Continue reading The Boy Who Threw Strikes – Hang Loose Everybody, Hang Loose

The Boy Who Threw Strikes – An 8Unassisted Baseball Cartoon

Dougie Walsh had a knack for throwing strikes. As a youth baseball player, Dougie would spend countless hours during the cold New England Winters in his garage throwing baseballs at targets like empty milk cartons. Once the weather improved enough to go outside, Dougie drew a strike zone on his parent’s shed and pelted it daily with pitches. One day, Dougie saw a ratty old sock net and stand in the woods behind a Little League field and retrieved it for his pitching workouts. He placed it at home plate and threw baseball after baseball into the netting. Dougie’s friends … Continue reading The Boy Who Threw Strikes – An 8Unassisted Baseball Cartoon

The Multisport Athlete – An 8Unassisted Life Experience Cartoon Montage

Playing multiple sports, whether it is youth leagues or as a collegiate athlete, has been proven to be sound formula for athletic success. Working the same muscle groups over and over again, performing the same repetitive motion, and engaging in the same activity is not necessarily a bad thing. However, cross training your body by swimming, biking, playing basketball, playing soccer, playing baseball, playing hockey is an outstanding way to become a much better overall athlete – physically, strategically, mentally. And, you get to experience a new game, a new format, and maybe find a sport or discipline that fits … Continue reading The Multisport Athlete – An 8Unassisted Life Experience Cartoon Montage

The Rhode Island Baseball Experience Final Swing – Good Morning, Good Afternoon, and Good Luck

Ever heard a baseball announcer or a fan standing next to you at a game or a fellow coach in the dugout utter the phrase, “Good morning, good afternoon, and good night?” Me too and it is just one of hundreds of baseball slangs, slogans, and sayings that make the game of baseball so timeless and precious to me. The phrase is uttered when a pitcher throws three consecutive strikes (most often without the batter moving a muscle at the plate) freezing him/her at the plate and recording a very impressive strikeout. Coincidentally, it is also the phrase I often … Continue reading The Rhode Island Baseball Experience Final Swing – Good Morning, Good Afternoon, and Good Luck