Located adjacent to the San Antonio International Airport, in San Antonio, Texas, McAllister Park is San Antonio’s largest and most popular city park that host the McAllister Little League organization.
This season, I managed the South Texas Razorbacks, a 12U baseball select baseball team. On May 4, 2008 we played against the South Texas Sliders [...]

I just found out that my son Blake can not blow a bubble. I’ve know for some time that strangely enough he avoids chewing gum, but to find out that at 12 he can’t blow a bubble seems quite un-american, so we worked on some bubble blowing drills this afternoon.
I knew the days that [...]

My buddy and fellow coach Roger Ley sent me yet another email that contained an inspirational story that once again supports my belief that every American blooded little boy wants to play baseball.
Author Bertram shares a story about 8 year old Adam Bender, one of several kids who plays catcher in Southeastern’s rookie league at [...]

It is inevitable that the time for our kids to branch outside of the comfort zone of home will come for all of us, especially if we participate in extracurricular activities such as travel baseball. As a family with a 12 year son that participates in select baseball (travel) we always new there may [...]

The first time usually I ask an athlete or one of my speed & agility students run backwards, they look at me with a lost wonder, but this is a drill commonly used by some of the fastest sprinters in the world.
Running backwards is an excellent way to increase speed and lower the risks of [...]

Another feature of baseball carnival Me! is the ability to integrate with a few of the most popular digital life manager networks.
I am now connected to a few micro-blogging social networks, Twitter, tumblr, and Pownce. ” A Life of Small Ball ” will automatically update at each of these locations, so feel free to [...]

Facebook is a great way to meet and socially network with new and existing folks with the same interest!
I have created a baseball specific Facebook profile to expand my network of baseball enthusiast, and to demonstrate the Wordbook feature on baseball carnival Me! community website.  If you are a fan or resource of baseball, but [...]

This is one of my favorite youth baseball look-a-likes. This one happens to be of my son Blake Jones in 2006, age 10, and Los Angeles Angels pitcher Bartolo Colon in 2006 as well. Could there be a resemblance here?
The amazing thing about this look-a-like is not only the obvious dated similarities in features, [...]

Welcome to baseball carnival Me!. We’ve created your first post for you as a brief introduction to a few features available to you here. Once you are comfortable, you may edit or delete it, and continue to grow your space however you choose!
Although your baseball carnival Me! space can be used to support an entire [...]

Hitting a baseball is the most difficult task in sports because it involves tremendous hand and eye coordination to be successful. The use of a tennis ball or similar tool can be valuable when when working with youth baseball players that are just learning how to hit a baseball. First off, the player [...]