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 [...]

My First Year in Little League

Way back in the 1950’s I played my first season of Little League baseball. What a thrill for an eight year old boy to play on a “real” team with uniforms and a manager. I don’t remember if he asked us what position we wanted to play, or if he just assigned our spot. At [...]

My First Steel Baseball Spikes

Way back when I was 13 years old, I bought my first pair of steel baseball spikes. I couldn’t wait to try them on and to wear them on the practice field. Whenever I got a new piece of baseball equipment I was always in a rush to try it out. It didn’t matter if [...]

Healthy Royals to Spark 200 Season

The Kansas City Royals had planned on a much better 2009 season than their dismal 65-97, tied for last place in the American League Central, record ended up. Early in the year, they were off to an 18-11 start being three games in first place when all the injuries began. All it takes is a [...]

200 Orioles Still Rebuilding

The Baltimore Orioles had a pretty tough year in 2009, finishing with the worst record in the American League at 64-98. The last half of the season was especially bad when they dropped 50 out of their last 74 games, including a stretch of 13-losses in a row. Manager Dave Trembley was called into GM [...]

200 is Cubs “Next Year”…

The Chicago Cubs, what can you say? They had a bad century and are working on their second. Maybe they’ll snap out of it and maybe we are not really in a recession, either! At any rate, the Cubs had a so-so year in 2009, finishing in second place behind St. Louis in the National [...]