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- Ambitious Enterprises Ally Peltier is an excellent editor/consultant for your writers looking for professional guidance.
- Baseball Panoramic Rob Noel’s great site takes you on virtual tours of MLB and historic ballparks
- David Stinson's author blog Please visit my buddy and fellow author David Stinson’s site. He has a real eye for baseball’s past; in fact, he sees it!
- Deadball Baseball Based on David Stinson’s novel, Deadball: A Metaphysical Baseball Novel
- History: Preserved This is a wonderful blog that often covers the home front during World War II, especially the recipes that were used to compensate for rationing. i had the privilege of meeting the author, Sarah Lee, at the 2017 WIlliamsport World War II Weekend.
- Off the Beaten Basepaths & other videos OTBB takes you to baseball treasures that are little known, underappreciated, or simply off the beaten basepaths! Subscribe now through Youtube so you don’t miss an episode.
- Places We Have Played Album My non-genetic twin, Al Smith, and I like to play in as many interesting ballparks, big and small, as we can find. Here’s our “collection.”
- Sarah Sundin Sarah is a World War II romance novelist who gets her history correct! Lots of good information on her blog.
- Seamheads Best baseball blog on the ‘Net!
- Summer Game Books The website of my publisher. (Hey, it felt good to write that!)
- The Official Webpage for Boots Poffenberger: Hurler, Hero, Hell-Raiser Visit the Summer Game Books page for my biography of Boots Poffenberger. Order from there and view the book trailer (to be posted soon!)
- Winchester Book Gallery A wonderful independent book store that is a fun place to shop in the Old Town Mall in Winchester. Christine and her staff are just plain nice people!
- Your Little Windmill My younger daughter, Sarah, has started a blog about her journey through love and Life. Well-written and insightful, and I’m saying that as a writer and not as her dad.
Tag Archives: New Market Rebels
Safe at Home: A Season in the Valley Updated 2nd edition now available
Many of you are aware that I have been working on two baseball books this summer. Ground Crew Confidential, the collective memoir of four guys who worked on the Atlanta Braves’ ground crew during the 1970s is about to be … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball Books, New Market Rebels
Tagged Mo Weber, New Market Rebels, Valley Baseball League
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College Baseball Remembers What Pro Baseball Forgot
Baseball is a topic that I often wrote about when I first started this blog years ago, but the sport—at least the major league version—has become a decreasing interest. It’s not just the players breaking their contract to entertain in … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball in General
Tagged college summer leagues, College World Series, Dubois County Bombers, Florida Ballpark, Florida Gators baseball, Mickey Jannis, Missouri Tigers baseball, MLB is boring, New Market Rebels, SEC baseball, SEC baseball tournament, three true outcomes in baseball
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Restructuring the Minor Leagues is Long Overdue
Baseball for me has always been about the stories, and one of the game’s best, archetypal story is the ballplayer out there in some dusty ballpark in some small American town, who gets discovered by some world-weary scout who takes … Continue reading
The Spirit of the Man
One week ago this evening (August 12, 2019) I attended “Mo’s 10th Inning,” which was the posthumous party Mo Weber threw for his friends, complete with endless trays of shrimp and an open bar. Laughter erupted constantly in various corners … Continue reading
R.I.P. Mo Weber
Last Friday, I received news that my baseball mentor and good friend, Mo Weber had died. Mo lived a good long life, having just turned 96 on June 24th of this year. I wrote about him in three different books, … Continue reading
Posted in Baseball in General, New Market Rebels
Tagged Mo Weber, New Market Rebels, Valley Baseball League
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Omaha Bound
One week from today, Al and I will be traveling to Omaha, Nebraska to see several games of the College World Series. This marks the tenth summer that Al and I have taken some kind of baseball pilgrimage. In 2007, … Continue reading
This Post Is Totally Self-Serving . . .
. . . but informative and entertaining! I will be presenting an illustrated talk on Boots Poffenberger: Hurler, Hero, Hell-Raiser on Monday, October 5 at 7:00 p.m. in the Fletcher Library in Hagerstown. This talk is part of the Robert … Continue reading
An Adventure Began Six Years Ago Today
Today marks the anniversary of one of my life’s great adventures. Six years ago today, a group of college ballplayers assembled at Rebel Park in New Market, Virginia and I was right there with them, asking questions, taking notes, and … Continue reading
Posted in New Market Rebels
Tagged New Market Rebels, Safe at Home: A Season in the Valley
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Beginnings
Beginnings can be a funny thing because quite often, we don’t know when something has actually begun. Only after time and through reflection can we realize that a particular moment marked a beginning. What we “begin,” of course, is a … Continue reading
Aunt Mini
Aunt Mini peered at the diamond, which she certainly considered to be one of her best friends. Only this diamond was marked off in 90 foot increments and made of dirt. She adjusted her New Market Rebels cap and cheered … Continue reading
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