North Dakota Baseball Camp

One summer’s day in 2014, I borrowed my neighbor’s lawn mower and met my teammates at the batting cage. I began mowing down the weeds, while they raked. Others restretched the netting back across the top of the cage. By the time the afternoon came we had a batting cage and a real sense of pride. From that day forward, we began practicing every day, year round. We talked baseball, walked baseball, lived and breathed the stuff. We shared our equipment and made do with what we had. We turned ourselves from a rag-tag bunch of misfits into a

Baseball workouts start months before tryouts. They are hard and quite dry; but train the basic skills into your mind through repetition. These workouts range from four to five days a week with the occasional saturday event. The skills taught were

Coach held tryouts where many inexperienced college players came to try and make the team. He picked out the 20 players he thought could get the job done. With vagarious training he tries to get them ready for the tough season ahead. Throughout the training there

To play the game of baseball you have to be in great physical shape. You also need to have an exceptional amount of

The three players in the outfield are for catching balls that make it pass the infield and chasing down ground balls. Other key players are the pitcher and the catcher. The pitchers job is to pitch the ball to the other team’s batter, and the catcher will be squatting just behind the batter at home plate to catch the ball if the batter doesn't hit it. The other team will be on offence with a batter.

When I got there know one was there so I had more time to practice. A little bit later there was a really good player on the other team practicing to but I think that he was the pitcher so I think he was seeing how fast I swung the bat. When I looked over to see how fast ball was going It was going as fast as a hummingbird flapping its wings.

My breakfast started to creep back up my throat as game time got closer and closer. I walked across the patch of grass behind home plate and was towered over by the 30 foot backstop with a huge net suspended from it. My bulging bag of equipment was beginning to make my shoulder hang. I walked down the steps into the cement dugout and placed my bag under the bench that spanned the entire length of the dugout. I sat down, laced up my cleats, and put my warm-up jacket on in preparation for batting practice. I stepped onto the grass surrounding the dugout to get the feeling of how wet the grass was. I dug my cleats into the grass and began my usual routine of taking certain practice swings as I gazed upon the press box in the wake of the backstop. Preceding the burn in my forearms, caused from the practice swings, I marched behind the dugout to the rows of batting cages to wait my turn in line. Pacing back and forth I knew I had to keep my nervousness to a minimum. I popped in a wad of Big League Chew and continued to

Those capable of division one athletics are typically the girls who have attended numerous camps, showcase tournaments, possibly home run derbies, and those who have played on a competitive travel ball team for years. A camp, hosted by a college coach, provides coaches with a closer look at possible recruits while also allowing them to correct errors and teach new concepts before the players enter their program. Camps cost anywhere from $50 to $250 for an allotted amount of time focused on a particular set of skills such as defense or hitting. Showcase tournaments are recruiting hotspots for coaches. These tournaments feature top tier teams playing against each other all day. For example, Triple Crown Sports hosts the Colorado Sparkler Tournament every year where hundreds of coaches from all levels of play attend. The head coach, Patty Gasso, of the University of Oklahoma to the head coach of Colby Community College attends the tournament providing a wide range of possibilities for players. Home run derbies are a competition where a player has a designated amount of balls. Whoever hits the most home runs wins. Lastly, a competitive travel ball team is able to compete against junior college teams, one that has in and out of state play, and one that plays year round. Also, private instruction can cost

Camden Selig’s road to success in college athletics hasn’t been a traditional one. He started off at Washington and Lee University majoring in psychology. He tried out for the baseball team but sadly got cut. During his time there he was a sports photographer for the yearbook and dabbled around sports on a small scale. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree and went on to Ohio University to get his masters in sports management. After he graduated, he didn’t quite know what he wanted to do. At first he thought he wanted to get into baseball. He had a passion for it and enjoyed the thought of having

In October 1945, the St. Cloud Baseball Association was formed to field a class “C” minor league baseball team for the Northern League. After a name-the-team contest that had over 568 names submitted, the name “Rox” was picked. The St. Cloud Rox played their first season in 1946 at a hastily built ballpark located at Division Street and 27th Avenue. In this first season, team was made up of mostly military veterans and castoffs from the Minneapolis Millers; they played so well that they won the league championship with the best mark in the Northern League’s history.

The Gents captured five different spots on the Second Team, including senior Dakota Brown receiving honors both as an outfielder and as a relief pitcher. Joining Brown on the Second Team are sophomore catcher Chris Zapata, freshman shortstop Colten Maples, and junior Aaron Quintanilla as a designated hitter.

Coon Valley, Wisconsin is a welcoming town of 765 people, most of them baseball fans. The village, surrounded by sharp bluffs, is home to a deep history spanning over a hundred years of baseball tradition. The 1905 Championship Team played here. Notable players such as Elston Howard, who played for the New York Yankees; Craig Kusick, who played for the Minnesota Twins; and Scott Servais, who played for the Chicago Cubs; took to the field in our town. Coon Valley Veteran’s Memorial Park is the place to play. The field is perfectly kept and ready for action of the Coon Valley Blues (the local semipro team), the Westby/Coon Valley Legion team, the Westby Norsemen Varsity team, and the community Little League teams. Behind and above all that is

players on the bases are waiting for someone to hit so that they can run.

"It was great. It was a huge learning experience," he said. "To be a producer on it as well was very

Baseball is a sport of many skills and figuring out the weaker part between all the skills is very challenging in baseball because it’s broken down into so many parts of the game. The sports are divided into offensive technical, offensive tactical, defensive technical and defensive tactical. All of these skills have a very strict guideline that one will fail without the other. In this paper, it will go through the details of the most important part and yet the weakest part in the youth baseball today. Offensive technical skills have been the struggle in youth kids these days because of the facts everyone wants to hit for a home run. Home run shouldn’t be the focal point of the offensive, but in today games it really has been the team in the professional really just want that guy who can hit fifty plus home run in a season.