How about a game of “Ten Ball”??? Or maybe we should phrase that, “Ten Balls”….. Baseball would be much more efficient if we would begin the game with 10 baseballs, and if you lose all 10 of those baseballs, the game is OVER and we all go home…The team in front when you run out of baseballs, is the Winner!!!!! This is flat out crazy…Such a waste of money…It almost looks like professional baseball is holding some sort of entitlement card over our heads…. You foul a ball back, you put a new ball in play… The baseball goes into…
from www.wrestlinginc.com….Click Here for more info…. Wade Boggs is in the Baseball Hall of Fame and also has some wrestling ties. He appeared in a vignette alongside his friend Mr. Perfect Curt Hennig in the 90s and later inducted Hennig into the WWE Hall of Fame. Boggs was a five-time batting champion and he talked about what makes a great hitter when he was interviewed by Wrestling Inc’s Andy Malnoske. “I’ve always said that great hitters are born. There is a work ethic involved but you’re not gonna take a .240 hitter and turn him into a .340 hitter,” said…
from SportsBusiness.com and you can CLICK HERE to go there, and what they are talking about is reducing the number of Minor League teams that are playing professional baseball…. Reduce the number of Minor League franchises from 160 to 120 teams/franchises… That would eliminate the entire Appalachian League, which fields teams in Burlington, N.C.(Burlington Royals), plus teams in Danville, Virginia(Danville Braves) and in Pulaski, Virginia(Pulaski Yankees)….The Pulaski Yankees were named the top franchise in all of Minor League baseball last season, and small town USA could see their Minor League Baseball teams going away… The Appalachian League is a rookie…
There goes that social media again, giving us all of this information and we just learned today that Cesar Trejo, from Ragsdale High School/UNCG and Devin Sweet, from Southeast Guilford High School/N.C. Central University, well these two Guilford County kids/young men, are on the same professional baseball team, the West Virginia Power…The Power are a South Atlantic League farm team for the Seattle Mariners, and are at the A Level of professional baseball… Trejo, and infielder and outfielder at UNCG, was taken in the 17th Round last Summer, by the Mariners and Cesar currently is manning right field for the…
The Houston Astros new baseball farm team in Fayetteville, N.C. will be known as the Fayetteville Woodpeckers, and many have already taken to calling them the Peckerheads…. In the ‘name-the-team’ contest last year, the final four names were, The Fly Traps, Fatbacks, Wood Dogs and Jumpers, but the team decided to go with the Fayetteville Woodpeckers and that has already drawn a lot of attention for the team….. Some of the Facebook stir on the Peckerheads/Woodpeckers: “Using the words ‘Fayetteville Woodpeckers’ and ‘professional baseball’ in the same sentence is a joke,” posted Ruth Kittle Mullen on Facebook. “Who can take…
Where Are They Now??? (And since our guest today is now playing baseball in the Independent Atlantic League, who is to say, that the High Point Rockers, the newest member of the Atlantic League, don’t pick up the local product for their upcoming 2019 season???) Our featured guest today is Mitch Atkins, former high school baseball player with the Northeast Guilford Rams and now still pitching and playing baseball these days in the Atlantic League, with the Independent Baseball team, the York, Pennsylvania Revolution… Mitch Atkins is now right at 32 years old and he came to professional baseball right…
Randy Norris Jr., from Dudley High School and Winston-Salem State University, a young man who grew up in High Point and attended High Point Andrews High School, well this young man is now staying very busy as a professional baseball player, in the San Francisco Giants system, and he is assigned to the Arizona Summer Baseball League and Randy Norris spends his days and nights these days, studying and working to become a better and complete professional baseball player, at the Minor League level…. Here’s John Dell’s take on how Randy Norris is spending his time as a rookie in…
Missoula topped Billings 2-1 back on Friday night and what a local connection you had in this game to decide the Pioneer League North Division title with Dallas Newton(Southeast Guilford HS) on the field and on the hill for the Missoula, Montana Osprey and Blake Butler(Southeast Guilford HS/College of Charleston) on the team that Missoula beat, the Billings, Montana Mustangs…Two former Southeast Guilford Falcons meet again on opposing teams in the minor league baseball playoffs…. Newton at (2-3) with an 6.85 ERA in 18 games with 7 starts for 44 2/3’s Innings pitched allowing 42 runs on 55 hits with…
from Joe Frisaro at www.mlb.com: MIAMI — The long wait was to see Marlins right-hander Jose Fernandez(Greensboro Grasshoppers/Miami Marlins) pitch. But Fernandez energized the crowd with his bat during Thursday’s 5-4 win over the Giants. Fernandez, returning from Tommy John surgery, ignited Marlins Park with a home run off San Francisco’s Matt Cain to lead off the fifth inning. The drive to left field prompted chants of “Jose! Jose! Jose!” in what became a four-run inning. The last pitcher to homer in his first game back after Tommy John surgery was the Cubs’ Kerry Wood on May 2, 2000. He…
Jose Fernandez vs. Matt Cain this afternoon, as both men are coming off of injuries and Fernandez(Miami Marlins) and Cain(San Francisco Giants) will both get their first starts of the 2015 season…Should make for an interesting matchup, but what about this matchup that Mark McKinney(High Point Enterprise) has for us today at www.hpenews.com: On this date in 1963, San Francisco Giants’ ace Juan Marichal defeated Milwaukee Braves’ legend Warren Spahn 1-0 in a classic matchup of future Hall of Famers. No big deal you say? *****Well, consider this game lasted 16 innings and both hurlers went the distance.***** They combined…
Four players to look at for today with Blake Butler(Southeast Guilford HS/College of Charleston), Corey Kimber(Dudley HS), Eric Kimber(Dudley HS/NC Central), and Michael Dimock(Wesleyan Christian Academy/Wake Forest University)…. Blake Butler(2b) with the Cincinnati Reds Arizona Reds team:5 games with AZL Reds numbers seem to be climbing as adjustments take place… Corey Kimber(P) with the San Diego Padres short season Tri-City Dust Devils team…3 games in relief, giving up one run in three innings of work… Eric Kimber(P) with the Kansas City Royals rookie league team, the Arizona League Royals and has worked in one game, giving up three runs on…