“Baseball isn’t everything that they are, and we want to make sure that we’re creating major league citizens with this program, regardless of whether they win or lose. Because as they start to mature in life, there are going to be times where it’s going to be hard and you may ...
VERO BEACH, Fla. -- Sharon Robinson felt “shaken” while standing in the meeting room named after her father, Jackie, who broke baseball’s color barrier in 1947. She was speaking to the softball players participating in MLB’sReviving Baseball in Inner Cities(RBI) World Series, a tournamen...
“What Stengel would do was holler out, ‘Hold that gun.’ Everybody knew what that meant,” Richardson explained. “It meant come on back and [someone] would hit for you. I was listening for that and I didn’t hear it. “I was trying to hit the ball on the right side. Labine...
“A lot of these kids are graduating and about 13 of them are going on to play college baseball,” said manager Roosevelt Barnes. “But beyond that, we’ve got a great group of student-athletes. These guys are World Series champs, but in that bench are the next physicians, entrepreneurs...
“Probably his best skill set is to be a bat against left-handed pitching,” Counsell said. “I’ve always thought David was just a solid IQ baseball player, and then offensively, he hits the ball really hard, which is one of the really important things in offense, especially today.”...
“Probably his best skill set is to be a bat against left-handed pitching,” Counsell said. “I’ve always thought David was just a solid IQ baseball player, and then offensively, he hits the ball really hard, which is one of the really important things in offense, especially today.”...
“Probably his best skill set is to be a bat against left-handed pitching,” Counsell said. “I’ve always thought David was just a solid IQ baseball player, and then offensively, he hits the ball really hard, which is one of the really important things in offense, especially today.”...