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, [...]

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 [...]

Catchers Mitt

There are a number of varieties of baseball gloves. There are gloves specifically designed for the first basemen, for the infielders, outfielders, pitchers and catchers. 
For both the first basemen and catchers, these gloves are called mitts, because they lack individual fingers, like mittens. In addition, the catchers mitt has extra padding and a hinged, claw-like [...]

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