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 | Feb 28, 2014 | Novel, Saving Babe Ruth, Travel Baseball, Uncategorized
There’s a war over youth baseball fields going on throughout this country. You’ll rarely read about this war in the local newspaper, but it is being waged in a number of communities. It’s a threat to our country. You might be surprised to discover the war raging in...
by Tom Swyers | Jan 24, 2014 | Coaching, High School Baseball, Novel, Saving Babe Ruth, Travel Baseball
Spring is fast approaching and every high school baseball program is gearing up for the season. Here’s a simple way to measure the appeal of your school program. If you want to a way to measure the attractiveness of a school baseball program, go and get the number of...
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 | Jan 2, 2013 | Travel Baseball
If you choose the wrong baseball winter workout facility, be prepared to watch your players disappear. While this website focuses on baseball, the topic of this post applies to all youth sports. The Problem It’s that time of year again when advertisements for...
by Tom Swyers | Oct 31, 2012 | Novel, Saving Babe Ruth, Travel Baseball
The recent arrest of Robert Sanfilippo reveals a great deal about travel baseball. Going forward, I will occasionally draw upon on the Sanfilippo story to illustrate some points about youth sports and youth baseball. Today I’m going to comment on one aspect of...
