In a typical baseball season, April scrimmages turn to May league games and June playoff games and July District championship games. August is usually a quieter month on the youth baseball, amateur baseball, and collegiate baseball league schedule, simply because the games would have already been played in […]
The Summer of 2020, heck 2020 in general, will always be remembered for social distancing, mask wearing, hand sanitizing, and health/safety concerns as it pertains to life, family, school, and sports. Baseball is a fantastic spectator sport, in my opinion. The sights, sounds, smells, and other enticing sensory […]
The Providence Slugfest Showcase Tournament has always been a huge draw for baseball players, coaches, leagues, and families in years past. This highly competitive showcase tournament has featured in upwards of 100 teams or more in years past from RI, MA, CT, NY, and many more regional states. […]
Just got this email in from Chris Charette from Chariho Little League: With the Cancellation of All Stars and all divisional and regional tournaments this season due to COVID-19, Chariho Little League would like to extend an invite to teams throughout Rhode Island interested in still forming All […]
In 2020, Rhode Island (and just about everywhere else on the planet) baseball players of all ages are the stars of videos, photos, posts, and threads posted on social media every day. And most of them have no idea about their stardom, the 10s and 100s and 1000s […]
As of the Phase 3 of ReOpening RI, all Rhode Island AAU baseball leagues were cleared to practice, play games, enter tournaments, and participate in all baseball related activities – within state and federal guidelines for Covid-19 safety. According to their official website, http://www.neaaubaseball.org, “Due to the lack […]
The George Donnelly Sunset League is one of the oldest baseball traditions in Rhode Island. The league has been in operation for over 100 years (101 to be exact) and up until this summer had played its games primarily at Cardines Field, Newport. Due to demands of Cardines […]
Connie Mack is a great opportunity for Rhode Island High School baseball players to showcase their talents on some of the best baseball fields RI has to offer. It is a wooden bat league as well, which to me gives it sort of an amateur league/New England Collegiate/Cape […]
This past Sunday, I had an opportunity to watch a live baseball game at Cardines Field, Newport. The Newport Collegiate Baseball League (NCBL), newly formed in the wake of the New England Collegiate Baseball League cancelling its 2020 Summer season, began its league schedule this past week, with […]
Phase 3 of Rhode Island’s ReOpening RI plan allowed for summer baseball leagues to begin their schedules in late June/early July. During previous phases, only small gatherings and practices were allowed due to health concerns. Leagues waited anxiously for the decision to allow larger groups to gather and […]
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