Buying a Youth Baseball Glove

With Christmas coming, and shortly after that-baseball season, many people will be buying a youth baseball/softball glove or mitt for their youngsters. So, just what do you buy and how do you know if it’s the right size to fit those young, growing hands? Also, how long will a glove last, and will the child [...]

Learning To Pitch In Sarasota

In the spring of 1990 in Sarasota, Florida shortly after the White Sox broke camp and headed for the still cold streets of Chicago, my 14-year old son Andy decided he wanted to be a pitcher. With us living in a spring training town, we had rather easy access to major league pitching coaches. So, [...]

Surprise, Surprise-Pujols NL MVP

Was there any surprise that Albert Pujols of the St. Louis Cardinals was voted National League Most Valuable Player? This is his third MVP Award, and second in a row. He also won it in 2005. All anyone has to do is to look at his numbers to see why he won it again this [...]

The Carefree Days of Little League

Even though it was many, many years ago, I can still remember the fun and excitement of playing Little League baseball. It was a much simpler time, well before radar guns and the all-important “pitch count.” Getting a new baseball uniform with stirrups and your own baseball hat made you feel just like a big [...]

Practice Hitting With a Whiffle Ball

When we were kids, we would play whiffle ball much of the summer. I found it helped in hitting a baseball. In whiffle ball, whether you used a baseball sized whiffle ball or plastic golf ball, it made you a better hitter. It was better and more fun if it was windy outside because the [...]

A day at Baseball City in Florida

A few years ago, there was an amusement park in Central Florida called Baseball City. It had all kinds of rides, a ballpark, games and baseball equipment. It was pretty much all about baseball. With my son Andy involved in Pony League at the time, we thought it would be a great place to spend [...]

Hotdogs and Baseball at Wrigley Field

It was in August of 1986 that my wife Eileen and I drove our kids up from Florida to the Chicago suburbs to visit family and Cubs Park. Having moved from the Chicago area to Florida four years earlier, we were still Cubs fans. Our 11-year old son Andy & our 9- year old daughter [...]

Twins’ Mauer American League MVP

Minnesota Twins catcher Joe Mauer was voted Most Valuable Player in the AL, becoming only the second catcher to do so in the past 33-years. He received an almost unanimous 27 of 28 first place votes. Yankee teammates Mark Teixeira and Derek Jeter were a distant second and third in the balloting.
 
Mauer says he [...]

Memorable Baseball Game in Miami

It was October of 2003. My son Andy was able to get two third-row, behind the dugout tickets for Game-5 of the NLCS. The Chicago Cubs were up three games to one over the Florida Marlins, and were only one win from doing the unthinkable…going to the World Series.
 
Being big Cubs fans at the time, [...]

Tim Lincecum Wins NL Cy Young

The San Francisco Giants’ Tim Lincecum has won his second consecutive National League Cy Young Award. As only 10 points separated the top three vote getters, it was one of the closet votes in the history of the honor. Nicknamed “The Freak” for his giant stride, a 15-7 record was good enough to win. Randy [...]

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