Rays Crawford Focused on Playing

The Tampa Bay Rays left fielder, Carl Crawford, is in the sixth year of a six year contract. We all know what that means…money talks ahead. Most ballplayers (or any athlete for that matter) just want to play. For sure, money is very important to any player, but playing still comes first. So this part [...]

A Week into Spring Training

Well, here we are a week into spring training already, and hopes are running high. Players are getting into shape-some trying to make their first major league team, some older players trying to stay on a team, and some veterans just going through the motions. The Tampa Bay Rays are off to a good start [...]

Spring Training Up and Running

Here it is early in March of 2010 (it STILL feels like winter) and spring training is once again up and running. Hopes are high for many major leaguers (and would be major leaguers), not to mention baseball fans all over America. There seems to always be a lot of promise at the beginning of [...]

Shields Likely Rays Rotation Starter

The Tampa Bay Rays look to have a strong pitching rotation as well as a stronger bullpen in 2010. Joe Maddon, the Rays Manager, released his starting pitchers for the first five games. In order-they are: James Shields, Matt Garza, Jeff Niemann, David Price, and Wade Davis. Andy Sonnanstine is right there too, but he [...]

Rays Price Ready for 2010

This spring is different for the Tampa Bay Rays David Price. Last spring he started in Triple A baseball which seemed like a slap in the face to him after being called up late in 2008 to pitch to Boston in the ALCS, and then the World Series. It was tough for him to go [...]

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 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 3)

Softball did go national when the US Army used it for recreation. They didn’t use softball gloves or baseball gloves. They just barehanded it and they also pitched underhand but pitched fast. (Maybe that’s why they started using gloves). At any rate, softball was growing rapidly.
 
Being a game that mostly men played, it wouldn’t be [...]

The 7th Inning Stretch (Part 5)

So, just when did “Take Me Out To The Ballgame” first get sung during a seventh inning stretch? Well, first we have to look at where it came from. A fellow named Jack Norworth was on a train in 1908 heading to Manhattan when the idea for the song came to him, and he jotted [...]

The 7th Inning Stretch (Part 1)

Ever since I was a little kid and watching baseball, there has always been a seventh inning stretch. I never thought much about it, but then I began to wonder; was it always part of the game? Naturally, I had to do some research to see just when and where it all began. These are [...]

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