The US lives and breaths baseball, the game runs in the blood and young and old are hooked up to the sport. There are baseball leagues major and little, baseball journalists and reporters, fans who own teams others who collect memorabilia and record histories. With the advent of the World Wide Web baseball has embraced cyber space and now there are websites that cover every aspect of the game and keep a pulse on current as well as past seasons an (more…)

As we emerge from the long, dark, cold, damp tunnel that is winter, we also face the culmination of the long, cold, damp hockey season in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Watching an ice-based activity while temperature is high and the sun up doesn’t strike me as natural. It puts the hockey fan at odds with his environment. I would just as soon forget about snow and ice until I absolutely HAVE to in November or December. That’s one reason why I’m a (more…)

Youth baseball leagues are up and running across North America, and around the globe. The game is very popular in Japan, Taiwan, Mexico, the Caribbean, and in South America. Millions of kids look forward to playing on their local teams. It’s a chance to meet new friends, travel to other parks or cities, and to be on a ball team. It’s the camaraderie that makes playing baseball a fun event.

The practicing however is often a different matter (more…)

In the play of the baseball the correct mechanics of launching is of primary importance. If a jet of the can’T of player with exactitude it makes its team little good outside in the field. The players must constantly try to improve their mechanics of launching. Few players take time necessary to become the really good launchers. The great pride should be taken when a player can uniformly throw to a target.

Key points in launching
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Is someone in your family a fan of baseball collectibles? Or maybe you, yourself, have an affinity for amassing large quantities of memorabilia from America’s favorite past times.

There are several different types of keepsakes you can acquire to add to your baseball collectibles. One item that will put a big smile on any fan’s face is an autographed baseball. A ball that was held by an icon has special meaning for those who look up to (more…)

Henry Chadwick, called the father of baseball, its first critic and the inventor of the box groove, claimed that American baseball was positively descended from the British contest of rounders, which became “urban sphere” in this country, then baseball. He was an eyewitness to the evolution, having seen rounders played as a boy in England, and rounders, town sphere and baseball in this country.

A. G. Spalding, miscarry of the notoriou (more…)