The official name of the organization was Oak Lawn Baseball for Boys. For a long time, that was a perfectly acceptable name. I believe it was in 1975 when that name became quite controversial.
On Memorial Day weekend, our family of four participated in six baseball games! It was such a refreshing change from discussing our nation's politics. Here is a great baseball story that explains why I love Little League Baseball.
Dear belligerent parents, hyper-focused coaches and prepubescent Justin Verlanders in the making.. The West Branch, Mich. Little League has a messa...
Summer vacation meant fast pitch in the morning, watching a bit of the Cubs after lunch, back out to play more baseball and then the White Sox after dinner. It was heaven.
Louisville is the overall #1 seed in the NCAA basketball tournament. The other top seeds are Kansas, Indiana and Gonzaga.
For me, spring begins when the air fills with the crack of the bat or the snap of a ball hitting a glove. It begins in February, when baseball spring training gets underway. As a parent, my real joy comes from watching Little Leaguers play. I can't wait to root for my kids on the ball field.
Amid the Little League World Series, a former youth player left brain-damaged by a ball hit off a metal bat in 2006 received a $14.5 million lawsuit s...
Athletes are largely in denial about their physical condition. From the days of Pop Warner and Little League they accept the fact that pain and injury are part of the game -- they play under all circumstances and fear being seen as a "training room player."
SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. -- After his home run sailed over the left-field fence, Brock Myers raced around the basepaths as if he was running a 40-yard ...
I don't like to brag about my athletic prowess, mainly because I don't have any, but I must say that I was a pretty good baseball player in my day.
"Nineteen? That's pretty good." To hear Nadia Diaz tell it to the Syracuse Post-Standard in the video above, her otherworldly 19-strikeout performa...
If you've ever wondered where the world's most enthusiastic and demonstrative umpire was located, worry no more. He was recently sighted in Rock Isla...
The poor young sluggers of the Redlands East Valley Little League in Redlands, Calif. have gone most of this season without uniforms, bathrooms or a s...
For many, baseball is a religion, and its stadiums, especially mine in the Bronx, serve as cathedrals.
If you are a woman who played Little League baseball -- or your daughter does today -- you have Maria to thank.
“Thumb to thumb!” the old man shouted, holding up his hands in front of his chest. “Thumb to thumb – what does that mean???” His crooked f...
Fran Dicari, father of three, spent $11,704 on his brood's athletic endeavors in 2011. Dicari's shopping list would dent a lot of family budgets: N...
In the end, it never really mattered to me whether or not Graham played baseball in college: only that we'd done everything we could to make sure he'd gotten everything he was meant to from the game. That's all any of us can ever do for our kids, really.
The feet are the first thing that hit the ground and without balanced feet a player's mechanics can be affected.
I knew baseball and that's what mattered. They treated me, as I did them, as if we were working as a team, regardless of our differences.
Spring is just around the corner and all the high school and college teams are getting ready to put on their cleats and play Americas favorite pastime, baseball, once again.
As the World Series game droned in the background, I thought of the magical season when we won the Evanston Little League championship.
Here's an inspiring story of a courageous teenager who reminds us that "can't" should be eliminated from our vocabulary. Doug Wells, a 15-year-old ...
"The kids are learning that life's not fair, which is a very valuable lesson. They are also learning that it is important to be the person making up the rules. Don't forget that in 1975 we didn't let any other towns play."
