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Baseball fans can celebrate black history and their favorite sport in one fell swoop this month. A new book out from award-winning author/illustrator Matt Tavares takes your kids back to the days before Hank Aaron had a hammer in his hands.
Henry Aaron’s Dream follow the path of Aaron from playing stickball in Mobile, Ala. before blacks had a diamond to play on, through the Negro Leagues and all the way up to the minors. Continue reading »
He’s teaching in upstate New York. So why did a teacher send a 9-year-old to the bathroom to turn his New York Yankees t-shirt inside out?
Because he’s a Red Sox fan. Continue reading »
President Obama thinks that students don’t spend enough time in school. He’d like to see longer school days and less time off in the summer. As a parent, I have a hard time disagreeing with that. How about you?
The New York Yankees clinched the American League East with a sweep of the Boston Red Sox. Continue reading »
A six-year-old boy surprised the fans at Comerica Park Friday night when he showed up on the pitcher’s mound at the end of the seventh inning.
Dad told him to go get a ball, and he took advantage of all those listening skills learned during the first week back at school. He went out and grabbed the ball left for pitcher Brandon Lyon. Continue reading »
Recently Jeanne wrote about the Yankees getting all kid-friendly. Not to be outdone, the New York Mets have their own special way of reaching out to the young ones, specifically in the surrounding community of the new and shiny Citi Field in Flushing, Queens (which some diehards are still calling Shea). Continue reading »
The NY Yankees are known for winning World Series (the most in the league), but these days they’re vying for the best dads in baseball title.
And it’s all thanks to Manager Joe Girardi, a father of three himself. Continue reading »
If you have to spend the summer unemployed, you could have it a lot worse: a couple of former federal employees who were laid off in January have spent the summer on the road with their six-month-old. They’re at number twenty-two on a trip to hit all thirty Major League Baseball ballparks.
I can’t decide whether to be insanely jealous or glad that I’m not the one on the road with a six-month-old. Continue reading »
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