by Tom Swyers | Mar 11, 2014 | Baseball Fields, Novel, Saving Babe Ruth, The Big Picture, Travel Baseball
Baseball leagues all over the country can easily lose their baseball field. A field of dreams can easily become a field of nightmares. How a league legally accesses its field is often the difference between a league that will survive and a league that is prone to...
by Tom Swyers | Jan 12, 2014 | The Big Picture, Travel Baseball
The title to this article comes from the Seinfeld television series which had a minor character named the “Soup Nazi.” The Soup Nazi ran a soup store and, if you did not order your soup according to his set of rules, he would say: “No soup for you,...
by Tom Swyers | Aug 21, 2013 | Novel, Saving Babe Ruth, The Big Picture, Uncategorized
Christopher Lane, a promising college baseball player, was murdered by a gunshot to the back the other day and the tragedy has prompted me to do some thinking. One of the teens arrested was reported to have said that he and his accomplices were “bored” and “decided to...
by Tom Swyers | Dec 19, 2012 | The Big Picture
(Note: The Scholarship Nazi was introduced in this post last week). Here’s the situation. You’ve gone to the Scholarship Nazi about a baseball (athletic) scholarship for your son (or daughter). You made your pitch to him. He laughed in your face, took your...
by Tom Swyers | Dec 5, 2012 | The Big Picture
Last week I discussed teaching communication skills to young men and women through school and sports as part of the eighteen year plan. This week I want to discuss having non-parents coach beyond the age of thirteen. Why Non-Parent Coaching? Since young men men and...
by Tom Swyers | Nov 28, 2012 | The Big Picture
I have talked about children reaching adult status by age eighteen here. In the same article, I referred to the many life lessons that baseball can teach. Let’s look at one life lesson — a skill — and explore ways to enhance the development of that...
