Oakland A's pitcher Brandon McCarthy was hit in the head by a line drive. The blow to the head instantly dropped him to the ground. He ...

My son wants a new BBCOR bat for this fall ball season and for next spring. I told him we are going to wait until our league officially an...

U13 baseball is the first year that metal spikes are allowed. (I debated the metal vs molded plastic cleats for U13 in two posts Metal or Mo...

On January 3rd, I wrote a post questioning metal cleats for 13 year old baseball players. I enumerated the risks involved. Injury Risk Nu...

In November, I was interviewed  by   Mark Hyman , professional journalist and blogger ( Youth Sports Blog ) about youth sports. He asked abo...

A new prototype helmet designed to protect pitchers on the mound from head injuries was unveiled today by Easton-Bell sports. (Read about t...

My son, Nic, needed a new baseball fielding glove for the 2011 season. Over the past few of weeks, I did the research on how to buy a glove ...

Babe Ruth Baseball ages 13-15 and 16-18 and Cal Ripken Division ball ages 4-12 have  approved a moratorium on the use of composite bats effe...

My son is starting his U13 baseball this year. U13 is the first year that the AABC league allows metal cleats. I know that metal cleats offe...

In 1924, a patent was issued for the first metal baseball bat, but metal bats were not used until Worth introduced the first aluminum baseba...

My daughter's coach will not let my daughter play with her current glove because it is too small. So we she needed to get her a new glov...

Last year,  Wilson Sporting Goods conducted consumer research for a new line of gloves in their legendary A2000 line. The gloves they were ...