by Tom Swyers | Feb 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
Thanks to the Albany (New York) Institute of History and Art, this city is the place to be if you have an interest in baseball. The Institute’s “Triple Play” exhibit on baseball runs through July. It’s not only the exhibit (containing items...
by Tom Swyers | Aug 8, 2014 | Uncategorized
Our Stitches What follows is a copy of the speech I gave to the New Jersey State Championship Banquet in Berkeley, New Jersey the other week: “I would like to thank Bob Everett, Berkeley Little League, and Little League International for allowing me to speak to...
by Tom Swyers | May 23, 2014 | Saving Babe Ruth, Uncategorized
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. President Barack Obama stopped at Cooperstown’s Baseball Hall of Fame on Thursday and surprised everyone by endorsing Saving Babe Ruth for his first choice selection as part of his National Literacy Campaign announced earlier this year....
by Tom Swyers | Mar 23, 2014 | Uncategorized
Locate your favorite MLB team’s locker display at the Baseball Hall of Fame. Post by Tom Swyers.
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 | Nov 12, 2013 | Saving Babe Ruth, Uncategorized
In honor of Veterans Day, I thought it might be interesting to revisit a moment in history when baseball was almost lost due to war.It was a few weeks after Pearl Harbor when baseball commissioner Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis wrote President Franklin Roosevelt and...
