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If This Man Texts You, Do Not Answer
A high school baseball coach is on trial for inappropriate conduct with his players, but this one's different than the usual coach-student sex scandals....
What Is Wrong With Our Fragile Little League Baseball Players?
From 1995 to 1998, Dr. James Andrews performed nine Tommy John surgeries on teenage patients. From 2003 to 2008? 224. Young, amateur pitchers are breaking down faster than a Dusty Baker rotation and no one knows what to do....
Happiness Broke This High School Pitcher's Leg
Broken bones are commonplace in sports, but a fracture during an on-field post-game celebration is a little more rare. Yet, that's exactly how Auburn high school pitcher Chris Halliday most likely finished his baseball career....
Iowa High School Umpire Knows How To Clear A Room
High school baseball umpires have a lot of options in handling disputes. They can give teams warnings, ask the audience to control themselves ... or just throw everyone out of the game....
High School Hurlers Care Not For Your Pitch Counts
Minnesota prep player Lars Anderson threw a complete game in the high school playoffs this weekend, coming up very clutch when his team needed it most. It's even more impressive when you learn that it was 13-inning complete game and Anderson threw 201 pitches. The losing pitcher? He threw 204....
Can This Kid Throw Five No-Hitters In A Row? (No Pressure!)
Florida high school pitcher Patrick Schuster goes for no-hitter No. 5 today in the state playoffs. But he already got his feature in the New York Times, so what's the point? [NY Times]...
High School Baseball Player Killed By Wild Pitch
Junior Patrick Clegg of Waynesville, Missouri, was struck in the head by a pitch during a game this week—it hit just below his batting helmet—and was pronounced brain dead on Thursday. Very sad. [FOXNews]...
Four No-Hitters In A Row? OK, That's Impressive
When I heard a high school baseball pitcher threw three consecutive no-hitters, it was like "Whatever." But when the same kid does it four times in a row ... now you've got my attention....
Florida High School Pitcher Loves No-Hitters, Beef O'Brady's
Either Patrick Schuster is really good, or the high school teams in the Tampa-St. Pete area totally suck. At any rate, the Mitchell High hurler now has three consecutive no-hitters....
High School Player Suits Up For Minor League Exhibition, Loses Eligibility For One Year
Here's another example of sensible well-meaning rules being used to bash an unsuspecting victim over the head for no good reason....
Apparently, It Doesn't Pay To Go After Umps
The kid, Matt Hill, was supposed to walk on at Gordon College. Not any more....
That's One Way To Protest A Call
We don't see how any reasonable person could not see it as obviously intentional, but they've gotta investigate anyway....