Browse By

All posts by JT

No Thumbnail

Jenks Youth Baseball

jenks youth baseball

Jenks Baseball is a youth baseball organization operating out of Jenks, Oklahoma and Tulsa, Oklahoma. The league offers fall, summer and spring baseball leagues. In the spring league there are t-ball division for four to five year olds and then six year olds, which cost

No Thumbnail

Diamond Mind Baseball

diamond_mind_baseball

Diamond Mind Baseball is a computer baseball simulation game developed by Tom Tippett. It was first made available to the public in 1987. Unlike other popular baseball simulation like Strat-O-Matic, Diamond Mind baseball wasn’t evolved from a board game, rather it was developed as a

No Thumbnail

Norcal Baseball

norcal-baseball-01

Norcal Baseball is a youth baseball organization based in the San Francisco bay area. It was established in 1992 as a single AAU team. But oh what a team it was, featuring Major Leaguers Jimmy Rollins and Pat Burrell. With future stars like that it

No Thumbnail

Hitters Baseball

hitters baseball

Hitters baseball is a youth baseball organization based in Racine, Wisconsin. It has been run by R.J. Fergus for the last 18 years. Hitters Baseball operate out of the Hitters Center and Hitters Baseball Academy in Racine, but they also hold tournaments in other locations

No Thumbnail

USC Baseball Schedule

usc-baseball-schedule-01

The USC Trojan have twelve national championships, easily the most in NCAA Division One baseball history. However USC baseball has struggled in recent years and haven’t made the NCAA tournament since 2005, let alone the College World Series. In 2013 Dan Hubbs was thrust into

No Thumbnail

Jewish Baseball Players

jewish baseball players

During the 2013 season, there were sixteen Jewish baseball players in the big leagues. They are Ryan Braun, Craig Breslow, Ike Davis, Scott Feldman, Nate Freiman, Sam Fuld, Ryan Kalish, Ian Kinsler, Ryan Lavarnway, Boston Red Sox, Jason Marquis, Kevin Pillar, Josh Satin, Michael Schwimer,

No Thumbnail

Cardinal Baseball Schedule

cardinal-baseball-schedule-02

The Stanford Cardinal baseball team is coming of somewhat of a down season for their lofty standards. In 2013 Mark Marquess’s squad finished 33-22, but only eked out a 16-14 record in the PAC-12 and missed the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2010.

No Thumbnail

The Different Minor League Levels Explained

different-minor-league-levels-explained-011

The minor leagues consists of independent leagues, foreign leagues and development leagues for MLB teams. For the purpose of this article we are going to focus on the developmental leagues, which are made up with what commonly called “farm” teams.  (Because they are “growing” players

No Thumbnail

Combat Baseball

combat baseball

Combat sports is a sporting goods company which makes composite baseball bats. Founded by GE executives in the late nineties, the Canadian company started out by making composite hockey sticks. They moved into the baseball in the early twenty first century, first supplying composite bats

No Thumbnail

Infield Fly Rule

infield-fly-rule-01

The infield rule played a big role in the 2012 National League wild card game. In the eighth inning of the winner-take-all game between the Atlanta Braves and the St. Louis Cardinals Atlanta shortstop Andrelton Simmons came to bat with runners on first and second