To regular readers, this may seem off topic. But as a baseball fan and mom of a ball player, I must comment on last week’s Major League Baseball Draft.
All of my other children have taken fairly conventional routes from high school on into the workforce. College or not, a few false starts, typical stuff. [...]

Obviously you will only be reading this if you share my joy of reading about America’s Pasttime. Apologies otherwise, and please skip to another post.
This is great. I just about passed out when I discovered this site: The Baseball Bookshelf, the creation of Hank Brockett.
I offered up my own list of favorite baseball reads awhile [...]

Reading the print edition of Baseball America yesterday (April 9-22 issue) reminded me of what we’re all here for.
Peter Gammon’s column “Hunter is ‘who we all should strive to be’ ” is a must read if you. Since you can’t read it unless you have a subscription, here’s a synopsis.
At the end of batting [...]

The season is about to start! For now, we have spring training, college and high school baseball to satisfy the need to watch the sport.
In celebration of opening day being right around the corner, here is my personal list of favorite books on baseball, my favorite sport:

9 Sides of the Diamond, David Falkner
Men at Work, [...]

Baseball America has an article in this week’s issue touting a new use for iPods. Players’ at bats are video’d and then the video is transferred to a database. Next, individual players are able to then grab the video of all of their at bats so they can view their visits to the plate.

All over the U.S., it’s starting. The grounds are prepped, the mounds are tamped, bases set, and the clicking sound of thousands of cleat-clad men and boys can be heard as they walk across the pavement and down into the dugout.
The pros report next week for Spring Training. Little Leaguers will soon get a phone [...]