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Baseball Field of Dreams or Nightmares? How to Keep or Lose Your Baseball Field

Baseball Field of Dreams or Nightmares? How to Keep or Lose Your Baseball Field

by admin | Mar 11, 2014 | Baseball Fields, Novel, Saving Babe Ruth, The Big Picture, Travel Baseball

Baseball leagues all over the country can easily lose their baseball field. A field of dreams can easily become a field of nightmares. How a league legally accesses its field is often the difference between a league that will survive and a league that is prone to...
War Over Baseball Fields Threatens Youth Baseball and the Country

War Over Baseball Fields Threatens Youth Baseball and the Country

by admin | Feb 28, 2014 | Novel, Saving Babe Ruth, Travel Baseball, Uncategorized

There’s a war over youth baseball fields going on throughout this country. You’ll rarely read about this war in the local newspaper, but it is being waged in a number of communities. It’s a threat to our country. You might be surprised to discover the war raging in...
How to Measure the Appeal of Your High School Baseball Program

How to Measure the Appeal of Your High School Baseball Program

by admin | Jan 24, 2014 | Coaching, High School Baseball, Novel, Saving Babe Ruth, Travel Baseball

Spring is fast approaching and every high school baseball program is gearing up for the season. Here’s a simple way to measure the appeal of your school program. If you want to a way to measure the attractiveness of a school baseball program, go and get the number of...
“No Athletic Scholarship for You, NEXT!” Meet the Scholarship Nazi.

“No Athletic Scholarship for You, NEXT!” Meet the Scholarship Nazi.

by admin | Jan 12, 2014 | The Big Picture, Travel Baseball

The title to this article comes from the Seinfeld television series which had a minor character named the “Soup Nazi.” The Soup Nazi ran a soup store and, if you did not order your soup according to his set of  rules, he would say: “No soup for you,...
Youth Sports: Choose the Wrong Baseball Winter Workout Facility and Watch Players Disappear.

Youth Sports: Choose the Wrong Baseball Winter Workout Facility and Watch Players Disappear.

by admin | Jan 2, 2013 | Travel Baseball

If you choose the wrong baseball winter workout facility, be prepared to watch your players disappear. While this website focuses on baseball, the topic of this post applies to all youth sports. The Problem It’s that time of year again when advertisements for...
Look Behind the Mask: Oil, Gas Fracking and Youth Baseball are a Match Made in Baseball Heaven

Look Behind the Mask: Oil, Gas Fracking and Youth Baseball are a Match Made in Baseball Heaven

by admin | Oct 31, 2012 | Novel, Saving Babe Ruth, Travel Baseball

The recent arrest of Robert Sanfilippo reveals a great deal about travel baseball. Going forward, I will occasionally draw upon on the Sanfilippo story to illustrate some points about youth sports and youth baseball. Today I’m going to comment on one aspect of...
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