By Andy Hale When I was a kid, my first Little League team was named after the New York Mets. It was the luck of the draw, considering the team from Queens had just won a World Series. Naturally, the Mets became my favorite team. And while some Mets fans wore the jersey of Keith … Continue reading
A church in Atlanta and a high school in Presidio, Texas, have developed a unique baseball “exchange” program that allows Hispanic youth in one of the country’s poorest counties to hone their baseball skills under some expert tutelage. Each January, members of Johns Creek Baptist Church in Alpharetta, Ga., travel to the Rio Grande Valley during the … Continue reading
