Your Glove of Choice-(Part 7)

In choosing a baseball glove or softball glove or mitt, you need to choose a model that is right for your position and feels good on your hand. Remember, after you ‘break in’ a glove or mitt, it will feel much better than when it was new. It will take a little time, but hang in [...]

Your Glove of Choice-(Part 4)

When buying a youth glove, there are some really cheap ones and some really good ones- and a whole lot in between. All of the major manufacturers obviously make good youth gloves and mitts and there is a wide range of prices. If your youngster is just starting out, you might want to spend a [...]

Your Glove of Choice-(Part 3)

…So, let’s talk about some of the brands and types of baseball gloves, and softball gloves that are offered today. First of all, $50.00 is no longer a “high end” glove or mitt; not in today’s world. Although, you can still get a pretty decent youth glove for $50.00 or slightly under, anything less is [...]

Your Glove of Choice-(Part 2)

Way back when I was seven or eight years old and just starting to play Little League baseball, I seem to remember that a teammate and I both had Rawlings youth baseball gloves. At that age and at that time, (late 1950’s) I don’t remember anyone really being “all into” what brand of glove they [...]

Your Glove of Choice-(Part 1)

So, you want to play baseball or softball, or you already do-what’s your glove of choice? With so many brands and types of gloves and mitts to choose from, your decision may not be so easy. There are the “old lines” such as Rawlings, Wilson and Spalding through Mizuno, MacGregor, All-Star, and many others to [...]

History of Softball-(Part )

Did you ever wonder how a game or sport got its beginning? Most people never think about it, they just play the game. That’s probably true with softball, but like all games and sports, it did have a beginning. Softball began in Chicago, Illinois on Thanksgiving Day in 1887. At a boat club called Farragut [...]

Heartbreak of the 1969 Cubs-(Part 2)

…Actually, the Cubs freefall was more “amazing” than the Mets climb. The Cubs lost 17 of their remaining 25 games as the Mets went zooming past them, and on to being the 1969 World Series Champions. Once again, Cubs fans were left holding the bag, only this time it was different. With all the excitement [...]

Heartbreak of the 1969 Cubs-(Part 1)

Two days after Neal Armstrong took “a giant leap for mankind” and made footprints on the moon in July of 1969, I got out of the US Army and made my own footprints at O’Hare Airport near my suburban Chicago home. Something was different-the Chicago Cubs were in first place! There was excitement with talk [...]

Chicago White Sox-1959

The city was Chicago. The year was 1959 and I was twelve years old. It had been fourteen years since any baseball team had won a pennant in the “second city,” so I had never seen a “friendly” World Series. I was a Cubs fan so the wait would be l-o-n-g! The White Sox were [...]

Baseball and a Wedding-(Part 2)

…The article doesn’t mention if the bridesmaids will be given anything from the Pirates, but I suspect that they will give Laura a catchers mitt for the “catch” that she made. (Although, upon seeing her picture, Damon is really the one who made the catch!) The names of the people in the wedding party will [...]

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