Subway Series

The MLB Winter Meetings are a time for owners, general managers and reporters to all be in the same place at the same time. The Winter Meetings are notorious for big signings and trades that will happen in the course of the five day span that the meetings last. Each year, the meetings are in a different city and this year, it’s Nashville, Tennessee. Some of the big free agents such as David Price and Zack Greinke had already signed prior to the meetings. But there are big names that hadn’t signed

Head down after costing the team the sectional championship is arguably the worst feeling in the world. I was a freshman at the time playing varsity baseball. I was up to bat with bases loaded and 1 out. There was one job to drive in the winning run on second. I had been our top hitter all season always coming up big in the big games. The team and coaches had given me the honor of being known as the captain. I was ready for this moment. The count got to full and I knew I was about to get my pitch

“What a game, the boys, played very well, Justin is a great hitter,” Coach Bill was excited after winning the first game in their newly renovated ballpark. “You’re right, but I’m still wondering who made that large donation to renovate the park and wanted it to stay anonymous,” Allen, his friend and fellow coach said.

Clayton Kershaw has been sidelined for the entirety of the second half of the regular season and is finally making a return. The Los Angeles Dodgers has announced today that Clayton Kershaw will make his first start of the second half this Friday against the Marlins in Miami. Kershaw started out this season looking better than we have ever seen him before, and that is saying a lot. Before Kershaw was injured his record was 11 – 2, with a 1.79 ERA, and a 16.1 – 1 strikeout to walk ratio. If Kershaw

The Angels finished the 1961 season at a 70-91 record. They moved to dodger Stadium and remained there through the 1965 season. In the same year a 25 year old rookie who promised to set the American League on its toes, and he did just that against the Baltimore Orioles on May 5. For 8 2/3 innings, Robert "Bo" Belinsky shut down the Orioles without a single hit. In 1964 with a 20-9 record and a 1.65 ERA, 23-year-old Dean Chance was named the winner of the Cy Young Award. He received 17 of a possible

Problem: All foundations need support in order to be viable philanthropic institutions. This support includes filing all of the paper work associated with the grants approval process, vetting the IRS standings of nonprofits before grants can be made, doing preliminary screenings of nonprofits to identify if their missions match the missions of the foundations they are attempting to solicit ect. Larger foundations (50 million dollars and over in net assets) are able to hire a fulltime staff to handle

Baseball Victim The sun was shining and birds were singing as the 8th graders of Adair Middle School lined up getting ready for tryouts. Memphis Range was the new kid in town. He stood at about 5’10 with a muscular frame. He had black hair like the brand new easton mako beast Memphis had got. The new Easton Mako beast was the bat every kid dreamed of having. Memphis was kid who loved the game of baseball and never dreaded a moment playing it. Levi Garrett was the other kid in town who was good at

Sean McCarty Sean McCarty. That name may not be a household name, well it's not yet. Sean McCarty has played baseball since the beginning of his time. Starting with t-ball when he was six, the next year he joined the club team run by WYCO, while it was coach pitch and machine pitch, it was a big step up from hitting off a tee.Their team was one of the youngest at WYCO. Sean is an only child so baseball began as purely a time filler. It slowly evolved into so much more than that. At the age

ERA) got the win for Seattle. With the loss and the Houston Astros having the day off, the Rangers fall to 2.5 games back of the Astros in the AL West. This started out as being a very promising series for the Texas Rangers, handling the lowly Seattle Mariners in the first two of the four game series. But then the Rangers bats went dead, scoring zero runs and tallying just five hits in the final two games. Even though they did run into a great pitcher this afternoon in King Felix, laying a goose

Throughout the past few seasons, bullpens have been one of the most popular topics in baseball. Aroldis Chapman, Andrew Miller, and Mark Melancon headlined the 2016 MLB trade deadline, as front offices were desperate for impact relievers. Unsurprisingly, the trend has continued into 2017, and the Washington Nationals are desperate to bolster their bullpen at the trade deadline. According to Jon Morosi of MLB.com, the Nationals are showing interest in Cincinnati Reds’ closer Rasiel Iglesias, who