I have to say this, and maybe I am missing your point, but this is totally contrary to what I have experienced over the last 16 years I have been in this sport. I can't even come close to estimating how many HS games I have been to in those years. If you take out the state tournaments and...
My daughters team played every weekend possible up north. We made church work for everyone whether it was Saturday night or Sunday. Like MOMO'sDad said its up to the families - not the church. If you want to do it you can. Heck - these days you can get ordained online for $50! Hold your own...
Totally agree with everyone from Fla. Virtually no gate fees except "special" events. The interesting thing is youth baseball in Central Florida charges $5 a head at all their events.
I can tell you that Central Ohio is a mixed bag. It depends on the Organization and the fields. The two HS...
Can you post the actual link to the portion of the rule you have here? I can't find the verbiage you have here. I like to have these interpretations printed off in case it comes up.
I am old enough to remember the revolt when MLB players had to start wearing ear flaps on their batting helmets. You would have thought the world was ending. I bet the 100 or so hitters that have been plunked in the ear since are pretty happy about the change.
Dude - do you even read what is posted before responding. ESPN did one of those "scientific studies" to determine the relationship between what the reaction time of a softball hitter and a baseball hitter was when the pitch speeds are relative. It was very interesting and well produced...
LOL - what is absurd about two questions aimed at reaction times? Seems to me that ESPN did an entire show about the reaction time between baseball and softball hitters? Why can't I/We ask about reaction time to field a batted ball?
Says just about every college coach I have ever spoke to about this. Before last summer I had two middle infielders that wore masks because of previous injuries - bad ones. While on the showcase circuit the first question I was asked about those two players was why do they wear them. When...
Since you guys have the guns I will take your word for it. I guess there isn't any need to try to relate reaction time between the two sports. But I still think it is interesting that a sport as old and set in their ways as MLB has considered a trial for head safety gear and our sport seems to...
OK - let me try this another way.
ASA has determined bat manufacturers can not produce bats that have an exit speed (the speed in which a batted ball leaves the bat) of more than 95 mph. Those in the sport realize that many players can not reach that speed but even the younger kids achieve...
I used to play a lot of SP at Berliner at that time and actually saw a couple of those. One was a Cinc team Dubois Chemical. UGLY - nose and teeth destroyed.
I am sure others heard this - but here is an interesting fact ESPN brought up about the Chapman accident.
1) The exit speed of the ball off the bat was 115 mph. It hit Chapman at 105 mph. That is at 60'6. So can we extrapolate that when the softball exit speed is 95 mph (+-) from 43 feet? I...
knightsb - I am glad you posted the one about the foul ball. Not only do college coaches frown on field players wearing masks - but many require players to hit without helmet masks. Crazy - and yet the SEC requires coaches to wear helmets while coaching the bases.
As a travel coach I will never make it mandatory - although I will always be in favor of it. At the showcase level the mask/no mask debate has already happened at home. College coaches make it very clear what their opinions are in this regard. In all the events we play in the summer and fall...