LEARN & IMPROVE

If you are a die hard baseball fan, you were probably nervous that you were going to miss a lot of Major League Baseball this spring. That is because the MLB experienced a lockout during spring training which pushed the start of the season back several weeks. From December 2nd through March 10th, MLB teams […]

A reader recently asked us whether or not you can use a baseball fungo bat for softball games, and our initial response was to instantly react with a resounding NO! However, there are some details as to why fungo bats are not the best idea for softball play, and you might find it helpful if

Adults might remember that time as a kid when you brought your Little League glove to a Major League Baseball game with hopes of catching a foul ball or snagging a player autograph. Times have changed, at least a little. You can still bring your glove to baseball games if you want. However, at today’s

Most longtime fans of baseball know that the game was derived from long-established sports played in a similar fashion with a ball and some form of a large stick ~ and a person throwing the ball to another person holding the stick, like cricket. How are baseball and cricket different? The main difference between cricket

The major sports of American football and baseball often get lumped together, despite the very big differences between them in terms of rules and fields of play. For instance, football fields are measured in yards, whereas baseball fields are gauged in feet. Some of our readers asked, how many yards is a baseball field? The

Every player or fan who loves tense moments in baseball dreams of the bottom of the ninth, bases loaded, two outs, full count scenario. It is arguably the most pressure-filled situation in all of sports. But what makes that moment so tense is not the fact that it is late in the game and there

Have you watched an MLB game recently and noticed an umpire stop a pitcher in his tracks and ask to look at his hat and glove? No, he is not asking for an autograph. He is looking to see if the pitcher is using any foreign substances to gain a better grip on the ball.

Each baseball season, without a doubt, sportscasters will rave about an unusual or rarely seen play out on the field. But are they all that unusual? It made us want to dig deeper, to explore and discover the rarest play in baseball. The rarest play in baseball is the unassisted triple play. This occurs when

Fielding Independent Pitching, or FIP, is among many new terms and acronyms used in modern baseball. It’s a statistic to judge pitchers’ performances based only on what he can control, and not on plays dependent upon fielders. So, exactly what is FIP in baseball? Essentially, the FIP judges a pitcher based only on certain statistics:

People who watch their first youth baseball games can compare with what they’ve seen on television, and probably wonder why the TV contests seem to last so much longer. We know adult baseball games are 9 innings, but how many innings are there in Little League games? Games sanctioned by the Little League Baseball organization