I’m really not a summer person. I hate yard work, bugs, temps above 75, blazing sun, and just about everything else that goes with summer – except baseball and thunderstorms. Thunderstorms are a subject for another day. Today we’re talking about baseball.

To me, there’s really only one American sport. Football doesn’t have enough games in a season to consider it a serious sport. Basketball is a show, not a sport. Hockey is Canadian. So that leaves baseball. And as far as I’m concerned, that’s all we really need.

I’m lucky enough to have a minor league baseball team in a neighboring city, Manchester, NH. The team is the New Hampshire Fisher Cats, the AA affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays. It’s great to be able to go to a professional ball game and not worry about paying an arm and a leg for a ticket and parking.

My wife and I have been season ticket holders of the Fisher Cats since they moved to New Hampshire from New Haven, CT (they were formerly the New Haven Ravens) . We really enjoy going to the games together and following the team. Unfortunately, this season the team is struggling

I never really played baseball as a kid. I’m legally blind in one eye, and my depth perception is terrible. So I have a hard time judging objects coming at me. Obviously baseball was out of the question.

But all my brothers played baseball as a kid, and two of them, Bob and Tom, played college ball. Now Bob is a youth baseball coach, and is putting his baseball knowledge to work there, and also on his newly launched web site, Teach Kids Baseball.

TeachKidsBaseball.com has a lot of great content, including articles written by Bob and other experts in the field. There’s also a wide selection of baseball videos to learn from.

Bob also publishes a baseball instruction newsletter for coaches, parents, and kids. His lifetime of baseball experience includes stints in all three classifications, so he has a unique perspective on the game.

If you’re a baseball lover like me, you should check it out.

Tags: American Sport, Baseball Experience, Baseball Instruction, Baseball Knowledge, Baseball Lover, Kids Baseball, Youth Baseball Coach

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