University of Georgia professor Peter Smagorinsky compares baseball and teaching in this essay. He explains how judging winning performances in both professions defies conventional measures and ...
For youth baseball coaches at all levels who wish their players would spend as much time learning the game as they do playing with their smartphones and other devices, Elmhurst's Neal Johnson has a ...
West Hempfield seventh grader Alex Hayes wasn’t getting the kind of practice time he had hoped for. Coronavirus concerns shut down his season, so his parents sent him to baseball camp at Westmoreland ...
I imagine that when Al Campanis penned "The Dodgers' Way To Play Baseball" in 1954, his goal was to teach fundamentals first -- because it is essentially a baseball textbook on everything from ...
The tired, moronic adage, "Those Who Can't Do – Teach," has been seeking a rewrite for a long time. Let's try this on for size: Those Who Can Teach – Pitch. Part student, part sub, and all pitcher, ...
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Biking and baseball! It's not a combination you hear about very often, but four guys are traveling all over the nation blending the two hobbies together. For months, the group has ...
MILWAUKEE -- Spring means the sights and sounds of baseball return to Wisconsin -- but some kids must really focus on the sounds. During a recent "beep baseball" game at MSOE, the sound of the crack ...
A good 30-minute drive west on Daniels Parkway this time of year from Hammond Stadium or JetBlue Park, there are no Major Leaguers nor throngs of clamoring fans. At Cypress Lake High School, as with ...
TRUMBULL -- Manny Torres' last shot at making the big time had come and gone. A second torn labrum had ended that dream, and for a long time afterward, Torres was down. Down on baseball. But slowly, ...