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 [...]