Sports Science

Check out the below FOX “Sports Science” TV Show clip. The newest episode features one of the nation’s great wiffle ball pitchers against Major League Baseball player James Loney from the Los Angeles Dodgers. If you know of anyone who can throw a wiffle ball like that, let us know.

Started the RV, took the family to Pigeon Forge

We packed our bags, started the RV, and traveled down to Pigeon Forge, Tennessee this past weekend for my son’s baseball tournament. It’s a good four hour drive from our house in Kentucky.

Pigeon Forge is a great place to go and take your family during the fall. They have the Great Smoky Mountains, the black bears, all kinds of outlet shops, fun and games for the kids.

The tournament was a USSSA event with teams from North Carolina, Tennessee, and Kentucky. The fields needed help, as there was a six-inch lip all around the infield. It looked like they needed to bring in several truck loads of dirt. The weather was great, the competition was real good, and the kids had a blast.

My son just turned 9 years old. He’s really developed a nice swing from the left side of the plate. In fact, he hit his farthest shot that I’ve seen him hit so far by hitting a line shot deep to center field hitting the top of the 200’ fence. Maybe next year he can hit them over!

Only two more weeks to go with fall ball. After this year’s baseball season is over (remember we’ve played over 150 games so far), it will be a good break before we get back in the swing of things again.

We packed our bags, started the RV, and traveled down to Pigeon Forge, Tennessee this past weekend for my son’s baseball tournament. It’s a good four hour drive from our house in Kentucky.

Pigeon Forge is a great place to go and take your family during the fall. They have the Great Smoky Mountains, the black bears, all kinds of outlet shops, fun and games for the kids.

The tournament was a USSSA event with teams from North Carolina, Tennessee, and Kentucky. The fields needed help, as there was a six-inch lip all around the infield. It looked like they needed to bring in several truck loads of dirt. But the weather was great, the competition was real good, and the kids had a blast.

My son just turned 9 years old. He’s really developed a nice swing from the left side of the plate. In fact, he hit his farthest shot that I’ve seen him hit so far by hitting a line shot deep to center field hitting the top of the 200’ fence. Maybe next year he can hit them over.

Only two more weeks to go with fall ball. After this year’s baseball season is over (remember we’ve played over 150 games so far), it will be a good break before we get back in the swing of things again.

Who wants a bat?

I decided to give back! Next week, we will start giving away several 2010 baseball bats from Louisville Slugger. This includes the Omaha, Triton, H2, and EXO models. These bats were used on our Baseball Youth Road Trip FANFEST tour that traveled the nation. To be eligible for a chance to get a bat, you must be a fan of our Baseball Youth page on facebook. We will give out one per week for two months. Tell your friends! Go to the facebook page.

Fall Baseball

Heading to large baseball tournament in Bowling Green, KY this weekend. My son is playing on another team this fall called Champions Baseball Academy based out of Lexington. We will drive 4 hours on Friday for games on Saturday and Sunday.

Next issue of Baseball Youth

Currently working on the next issue of Baseball Youth Magazine. Right now we are in the proof stages. This involves my editor, my designer, my wife and myself going over each story and photo. Usually takes a couple days before we send off to our printer.

Baseball Is a Boomin’

As youth baseball grows bigger and bigger throughout the country, it is amazing to see the changes teams, players, parents and even television networks have made to adapt.

Travel baseball is growing at a rapid pace, and some teams are playing an unbelievable amount of games each year. Sure, it’s easier for the warm-weather states like Florida, Texas and California to play almost year round, but some teams are playing 100 games or more a season. That’s astronomical! Even I’m a victim of that with my son’s team.

Select teams are traveling across the country to play in the biggest youth tournaments available, and families are dedicating themselves to keep up with the constant practices, games and travel. Parents deserve a lot of credit for doing what they do to support their kid(s’) baseball lives.

Parents also are the ones who have to shell out the dough for their kids to play the sport. It’s not cheap to play travel baseball with tournaments, team fees and especially equipment.

Kids these days want the best bats out there, and that means spending about $300 or more for a top-of-the-line bat. Some kids even go through two or three bats in a year! Then you also have fielding gloves, batting gloves, sunglasses, but the list gets even bigger if your kid is a catcher. Yikes!

Just in the last couple years, television networks have made baseball the most marketable youth sport in the U.S. ESPN and ABC led the charge with the Little League World Series and now the new MLB Network has followed suit by televising the RBI World Series, Cal Ripken World Series and the National Youth Baseball Championships.

You can’t find youth sports like football, basketball or soccer on television or being marketed like baseball is during the summer. Baseball Youth will also be stepping up its coverage of the youth game with the magazine and especially online.

The national pastime is booming for the next generation, and it’s wonderful to see the explosion.

See you on the field,
Scott Hacker
Publisher of Baseball Youth – The Nation’s Baseball Magazine for KIDS

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