Behind every pitch in professional ... He plucks a ball from a stack of boxes between his knees and prepares his hands with mud. "I'm applying mud to the baseball to take the sheen, the shininess ...

In baseball, tee-ball and soft-ball, you normally either run or slightly jog your way to first base, depending on how close the race will be to the bag. But if you have the excitement and ...

The eye can smoothly pursue at speeds of 30 degrees per second, which sounds like a lot, but in terms of hitting a baseball, really isn’t. It takes about 4/10ths of a second for the ball to arrive at ...

The day after that disastrous first practice, I stumbled upon a thoughtful article on a website called Baseball Positive that made me rethink my role as a tee-ball coach. To wit: As adults ...