Category: Carroll County

Diamonds 💎 are a Girls Best Friend : When did the team of 2015 at Carroll County High School first fall in Love with the game of Softball?

  To compete at the highest level in a Sport nowadays, it requires a great deal of commitment from both the Coaches and the Players. It would be short sided to not mention the families on that list, so let’s not make that mistake.

Off season workouts, year around Travel Ball and time in the weight room are all parts of the process.

One subject that we have yet to tackle in regards to our Book 📖 is the amount of Softball played by these Home Town heroes prior to Coach Rick Nester taking over in 2013.

Monday morning at 11am I will have an opportunity 🙏 to visit with Mr Alvin Davidson and I believe this Proud Dad might be able to shine some light on this subject !

Already looking forward to the conversation with Gracie’s Dad 👨

Happy Birthday 🎂 to a very special Lady 👩 and wonderful Mother of two!

August 9th has always been a special day on the Calender for us and now it will have a second reason as today will end one very bizarre weeks in our 40+ years together.

If everything goes as planned, he will make it back to Laurel Fork after a lengthy stay at Duke University Medical Center.

For those of you that reached out during the past week, God Bless You 🙏. Working on the book 📖 and the High Jump project provided a nice diversion !

#Throwback

Ladies and Gentlemen, the streak has reached 700 Days !!! The challenge is to put forth effort 👏 to spread joy each and every day, regardless of one’s circumstances.

The writing ✍ on this site has been ongoing for almost two decades now but the streak part is still in year two. The self challenge is to make everyday a little bit better for someone by using words in a positive way.

Don’t know if it will see 800 or not but we will do our best !

Have a Blessed Day 🙌🙏

Today is Baseball ⚾️ Day in Salt Lake City as the Bees host the River Cats 🐈!!

Years ago, I completed the visit every Major League Baseball ⚾️ stadium 🏟 loop and thought that it would be fun to see how many of the AAA parks I could take in. There are 30 and they are spread across the country in second level cities.

  I am now just a handful shy and later today that number gets reduced by one as I take in a game upstate in Salt Lake City.

  The difference for me is that when I am at a park like the one tonight, its less about the game and more about the atmosphere and marketing aspect of things. What is taking place that night translate to a college game or a High School game?

I don’t know it for a fact but I believe that Howard Mayo and Casey Burcham are currently working on their versions of the MLB parks and if that’s the case, I would welcome hearing about it.

  My favorite thing about the game of Baseball ⚾️ is just how different every park is and what it means to the community it serves.

Salt Lake City !

Next up after SLC will be Albuquerque, New Mexico, home of the Isotopes. Between now and then I will research what an Isotope is….